Lowering MacBook Pro thermals

[ouma552]

With summer fast approaching, I'm finding myself wondering exactly how often my MBP 2015, Retina, 2.8 Ghz i7... is actually throttling. So I downloaded Intel Power Gadget and the answer is... a lot. In fact, during my work day, I'm pretty often finding myself with 5+ cores fully loaded, fans roaring and my package temperature just below 100º.

 

So outside of pulling the machine apart and voiding the warranty... what other options might there be? I suppose I could just get a big fan (or couple of fans) and just blow it nice and hard to cool it off... but what else might I try?

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, ouma552 said:

 

There's not much you can do outside of using liquid metal on the CPU, since there's no way to make the heatsink bigger to properly fix the issue.

[Sorenson]

 

11 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

There's not much you can do outside of using liquid metal on the CPU, since there's no way to make the heatsink bigger to properly fix the issue.

don’t do this. putting liquid metal in a laptop is a terrible idea. if any slips out it will fry your laptop. My 2014 15” mac book pro was running really hot so i replaced the thermal paste in it with noctua NT-H1, a non conductive thermal paste. thermal paste cures over time and becomes less effective. replacing it can make your cooling more effective. My macbook pro is running a lot cooler now. 

[ouma552]

This system is still under warranty and so the last thing I want to do is mess with it and screw that up.