The big * here though is what do you need to do in windows? Unless it's like, gaming just use parallels or virtualbox or something. Just set the fans to like 2000rpm in smc fan control and rock out. with the cpu fan at 1600rpm, the other main one at 1500, and that "optical drive" one at 1000. OSX will never run the fans at 100%, or even it seems, 75% and i've never had the cpu temp go above about 60c even when left on for hours rendering 1080p video in premiere. gravely after all these years and a few blast outs with an air compressor. I have seen macbook pro fans fail, and the fans in my imac sound a little erm. I've blown out fans on several small/thin machines doing that type of thing. Any damage this could cause to the machine would end up being something like 80% if not near the full purchase price of another comparable machine on the used market. Like $300 on a machine that's only really worth 450 or so anymore). You might also blow out your video card(which while replaceable as a seperate unit unlike later imacs and many similar systems, is an EXTREMELY overpriced part. It's a well documented issue online, and i don't understand why they don't have some deep firmware like a lot of other high quality machines(dells pro stuff like the better latitudes of old and the precisions, thinkpads, etc) where a bios level thing will go OH CRAP THIS SHITS OVERHEATING and flip the fans on to either 90% or full blast until the temp drops below some predefined threshold you don't get to set. There's some weird entirely software controlled voodoo going on with apples fans on a lot of theri systems. 2008 macbooks, 2009 macbook pros, 2007 macbook pros, 2006 imacs. I've had this heat issue with several macs of various earlier intel revisions. The fans on mine never exceed 1500-1600 on my 2007, hotter because of an older less efficient cpu, smaller(20in, more stuff crammed in to less space) iMac. If i wanted to be 100% safe and sure it would never overheat i'd set them to like, 1800 or 2000. Yes, but as anecdata you should never ever need to set the fans above lie, 1500rpm. Best answer: 1) Is this something to worry about?
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