16" MacBook Pro 2019 Intel - Fans and overheating FIXED!
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- I've been struggling for AGES with this machine. It's no slouch, but it gets ridiculously hot and even web browsing is enough to get the fans maxed out. But now there's a fix which won't cost you a penny! However, it does come at the cost of performance...
Hopefully, this might give some of you a bit of an idea of whether or not this is a solution for you!
Time saver: turn low power mode on.
Is that all he does in the video? 9 mins is too long.
I'm afraid it is all I do. But thanks for the feedback!
@@JoshxIZ yeah, he's just adding some benchmark to see if it's worth it to turn on low power mode or not
@@JoshxIZnot only that, even with the extra fluff, it could be a 5-6 min video, if it weren’t for the unnecessary pauses and slow pace.
Edit: all that aside, some good info at the end of the day.
@@FlyingSi Yes, how selfish of you to give out free & useful information & not take the goldfish span of attention into account! Poor dears need help to figure out how to use the playback speed variable perhaps…SMH! This has been very useful thank you.
Wow, thanks Si. This has been a total game changer for me. It's almost like having a new machine. I've tried tips from a bunch of other videos to no avail, but this has sorted it..I have a 16" MBP from 2019 which I use as the heart of a small music studio and of course the fan has been an annoyance. Otherwise it performs brilliantly. With this "fix" I can still run smaller projects, sketch ideas and record without issue. Dead quiet, doesn't get too hot .. Was working yesterday with 15 tracks of audio, a bunch of plugins and 3 or 4 virtual instruments and recording acoustic guitars over it. I forgot I had "low power mode" on. It was flawless. When I throw a larger project at it .. 35 tracks or so, more plugins and such it chokes, so for more serious mixing and work it'll have to be full power mode with fans whirring away. But I usually mix at a level where I don't notice the fan noise anyway. Cheers and respect is due :).
You’re more than welcome! Glad it helps 😀
I’m an on the point to buy one of this, do you know if with ventura or sonoma, it has the same problem or they solve it?
@wolfgren1128 whenever I upgrade MacOS I hope it will fix my overheating issues, but so far nothing works. I will try Low Power Mode, but I suspect it won't cut it for me (I use 5 external monitors + the Macbook Pro monitor...)
Helped immensely. 2019 MBP 16” 32GB RAM. This was choking on Ableton Live projects continually interfering my workflow. CPU was constantly peaking and stuttering….not mention fans and a red hot chassis. Now I’m steady at 32% CPU. Next I’ll be opening and cleaning.
Hey. Could you plz help me with this question ⁉️ I barely collected some money to buy a laptop for music making with Studio one and Ableton and also sometimes do game and editing. Is this MacBook pro 2019 core i9 with 16gb ram proper for me? Or should I consider an Asus TUF F15 (2022) with a core i7 12700H which has 14 cores? Thanks 🙏🏻
it didnt work for me. did you restart machine after? or ?
absolutely....I changed it in settings so that it'd remain that way, then rebooted.
@@feltmanmusik7923 does this still work since you made the change? (3 months ago)
sorry about that. For me it works as soon as I apply it.
Man I hate my 2019 i9 especially cause I paid close to $4k lol, I'm glad apple basically gave it to you. I want to upgrade to M1 but throwing another $2-4k solely to not have to deal with fan noise/heat is a tough pill to swallow. Trade in value is abysmal on Intels now. I think in Low power mode it auto graphic switches to onboard graphics hence the weird test results. I was using this utility called "Endurance" which automatically sets it into low power mode depending on how you want it to work on battery/plugged in. I did not notice that Monterey added the feature so looks like I can uninstall endurance now, and now I don't have to use my noise cancelling headphones as much now. thanks!
Man same.. I paid a bomb for the fully specced out 2019 i9 and I live in a hot country( India). It almost makes be cry sometimes that thermal throttling starts as soon as I do any sort of heavy work on it
Same here, nearly $5k paid and this thing just shuts itself down when it gets a little hot 😒 Never an intel again
@@peptheladcouldn't you guys use a cooling pad for that poor laptop? What's wrong? Do you have problem just with the noise of the fans or the performance?
Guys try to change the thermal paste of the CPU and GPU with ptm7950, it will “revive” the old paste and can solve thermal problems
After years of having the same issue! I will give this a go
I think I love you! My Mac's fans have been going nuts using Lightroom and this seems to have almost solved it. The performance increase isn't noticeable at all. I have the 2019 16" i9 but just 16GB ram and Intel graphics. Thank you SO much for this video.
You are welcome - glad it helped!
Hey Man.. Been having this problem now for a long time and was honestly about to BIN my mac or at least sell it at a loss and buy an m1/2. I upgraded to monterey and for the most part this solution works. I upgrdaded and as i use this for recording, with a combinatin of turbo boost switcher and the lew Low power mode i can actually record vocals or guitars without a jet engine 'whirring' in the background, Hooray!! It's still not completely silent but i'm gonna take the machine to a specialist and get al the grime and dirt takent out of the insides. The ONLY problem now is that it is that the fans are stil overheating and kicking in super early if i set my display to 120hz or 144hz. As soon as i do this the fans go to maximum if i'm running STUDIO ONE or Logic then subsiquently starting to glitch and lag out. If i keep my external display at 59.9hz i don't have a problem. Well at least for now this has been a great comprimise. I can live the fact i have a very expensive LG display which i can use to it's full potential if it means i can actually use my computer.
My experience with the 2019 16" macbook pro has been very frustrating. I use it for development (I have an old apple thunderbolt display), and the laptop got so hot (Monterey) that it basically stopped responding to mouse movement and keys at times! How did I manage? I bought a coolpad (yes, it is loud!) and it made a difference. Honestly, there should a class action lawsuit against apple for selling us a faulty piece of hardware. It's like having a car advertised for going to high speeds like over 150km/h and in reality when you run it it goes only to 80km/h because its engine overheats. The technique in this video works for the case when you just do browsing, but if you have apps to compile you want to squeeze all the juice you can get.
I completely agree!
after trying nearly every advice I could find, I bought a set of screwdrivers, watched tutorial how to open the body - opened it- cleaned the fans from "tons" of dirt within using high pressure and finally got my Mac book back :)
Great to hear!
gonna do this same thing
This problem fixed with macOS Monterey 12.3, before that version when you use an external monitor gpu always draws at least 20W. After the update gpu can adjust itself according to need.
The problem is not the sound it makes when connecting to an external monitor, I remember back in 2019 going to the office and people actually looking at me and asking: isn't that a new mac? it sounds so old. I just couldn't believe it . But that wasn't the problem, it was the whole thing freezing when performing menial tasks like doing a zoom meeting etc... I spent more than £4200 on this. My previous mac was more performant. Still the problem is the hours I had to use to investigate the issue , that's more expensive than the laptop itself...
Not too keen to lose the performance on my 2020 i7 with eGPU personally. I did find having it on an aluminium cooling plate with large fan and that’s dropped the temps by 15-20c. This drops the MacBook fan speeds, and the large fan in the stand is much much quieter.
Honestly I wont be buying another MacBook, I’ll be getting a Mac Studio next time and have an iPad Pro as portable. I just don’t need the extra versatility on the go, and modern iPadOS offers a lot more than it did in 2020.
install turbo boost switcher. have this on my 16 inch 2019 macbook pro and have no issues whatsoever connected to an external monitor.
Thank you so much for this info! I have the 2019 MBP 16" 16GB 1TB and it's pretty loud most of the time and drives me crazy. So far so good, fingers crossed it continues to help.
And totally random, but you remind me a younger version of Mark Knopfler - one of my favorite guitarists! :)
still any noise? wanting to get one macbook at the end of this year
Hi @@bernardkoe4941 - it helped tremendously. But the other issues that continued to plague the Intel chips named running warm and having not great battery life, pushed me to trade it in on a new 16" MacBook Pro M2, and this laptop is incredible. I'm very happy with this new M2 laptop. The i9 isn't terrible, but compared to the newer M chips it just doesn't compare. Everything is faster, quieter, cooler to the touch, consistently long battery life. But that said, you can get some amazing deals on i9 laptops today.
worked like a charm for my 13 inch MacBook. Thanks a lot mate :)
Great to hear!
I have resolved this issue with a similar way, using TurboBoost Switcher app. But I cant seem to find a way to resolve it in Bootcamp, when going into windows overheats. Any ideas?
its frankly absurd that this should exist as a problem (and one they've never fixed). These were very expensive machines.
My 16' intel used to overheat and then stop taking input altogether. It turned out being spotlight trying to index a bootcamp partition, once I disabled it, it has worked much better. Still majorly regret buying it though.
I'll try this immediately!
To be honest I don't really have an issue with my Macbook getting hot to the touch (the fans whirring at full throttle is more annoying). My worry would be, is my laptop gonna die on me at some point, or are these heat peaks to be expected, meaning my laptop is behaving normally?
I think it’s “normal” for Intel based Macs, but it’s not great, is it?
@@FlyingSi Not ideal at all! But if it's expected, then I guess I can just relax. Thanks a lot for replying :)
thnks grandpa, very helpfull
simple to the point
You're welcome but grandpa?!
Just removed a new mac from my shopping cart.. Thanks so much ahah. Time to clean the fans next
I am having the same issue on my 16'' Macbook Pro 2019, but I don't see the low power mode on my battery, do I have to download something else to get that button?
I’ve upgraded to Sonoma and it’s still there for me!
@@FlyingSi same!
I'd rather have a machine that a is a little slower but usable versus a machine that shuts down during a Teams call because it overheated.
watching this on an external monitor with my fan whirring away. i dont think this low power tradeoff is worth it. Fan it is! thanks for the video though. btw, ive read its allegedly due to a bug in the intel turbo boost.
Should I download macOS Monterey if I have Sonoma? As I understand it, this would be a downgrade?
Also is there a similar solution for Sonoma?
I have the same problem
I've just upgraded to Sonoma and the option is still there. If you go to the Battery setting then the first option is Low Power Mode. I have mine set to Only on Battery. Strangely on Sonoma I'm not getting the fans spinning up yet. Maybe they fixed it?
Software Engineer here, worst laptop ever, imagine buying a Macbook for $4000 just to see it overheating and throttling when using an external monitor or even while just compiling software. Won't ever buy an Apple product but I'm forced to because I work with iOS applications. After searching a lot this seems to kind of solve the issue (it stills throttle but a lot less). My final solution will be to ask a refund and buy some M1 model
Thanks a lot
It worked! And here i was thinking that i needed to move to something with Apple silicon.
It does work - that said, Apple is Silicone is pretty good!
The problem behind it all , the root of all evil ..... APPLE HARDWARE FORM FACTOR DESIGN FAILURE ... A chassis too thin to satisfy "apple people aesthetics, that unique staple style!" using high end performance parts on a laptop chassis that has no CLEARANCE for a powerful HEATSINK+FANS solution , when you combine an I7 / I9 CPU with an AMD RADEON GPU (5XXX Mobility series , notorious for being really HOT ) ... and you decide to use a SINGLE FLAT HEATPIPE combined with an enclosed chassis design ( no side vents , no bottom plate vents) you obtain the freaking portable version of the CHERNOBYL REACTOR , obviously to publicly recognize this insane mess up would cost apple a few hundreds millions to replace the whole generation of 16" 2019 macbook pros , which in the Tim Cook version of Apple , that's a big NO NO ....
Just like in previous years and previous generations of all the MacBooks, when people used THIRD PARTY TOOLS to : Manually disable the INTEL TURBO BOOST , to tweak and lower the CPU/GPU VOLTAGES attempting to avoid the insane temps/heat generated by the CPU/GPU in those models ... sadly the multi-million dollar powered APPLE engineering team couldn't go against the "cult of mac aesthetics" design team ! And again and again and again ... they kept replacing intel processors generation after generation .... GPUS generation after generation .... USING THE SAME FAILED APPROACH TO COOLING : A SINGLE FLAT HEATPIPE CONNECTED TO 2 UNDERPERFORMING AND HORRIBLY DESIGNED FANS .... IN A CHASSIS WITH INSUFFICIENT AIR INTAKES
This low power mode is just a final BAND AID in the mutilated corpse of one of the greatest laptops ever made by apple , BUT they had to keep it cool , nice looking and had to sacrifice COOLING PERFORMANCE FOR COOL aesthetic looks !
The solution : grab a few thousand dollars or Euros or Bitcoins …. and get yourself a fully decked out NEW M1 max 16" (US $4500+)
FYI : low power mode kills the watts the chipsets (CPU/GPU) have access to (4W/7W ) effectively hampering the 17-20w the chips should be using, leaving you with an OVERSIZED Chromebook made by Apple 😁
Edit: I own 2 of them ( I9 /8GB RADEON/ 64GB RAM / 2TB) 😢🤦♂️☠👻
I agree with all you said. Unfortunately I got this macbook after my 15” 2014 suffered at the hands of the “genius bar” doing a battery replacement. Can’t really complain as I ended up with a five year old machine being replaced with once which would have cost an absolute fortune for only £200.
It’ll do as a laptop but I know that low power is crippling it. Fortunately I now have a studio ultra which means work at home benefits from a machine which is, frankly, insane!
@@FlyingSi That's great my friend, i have heard that the studio is a true monster for work/productivity and whatnot, glad to hear you were able to get it and it was satisfying for your needs !
I gotta keep dealing with my Macbooks since I don't have the funds to invest on the latest models, i have been researching , 3D designing and crafting a custom metal/resin lower frame for them that will allow me to use a bigger multi-heatpipe custom heatsink with copper plates and with 4 fans to obliterate the heat ... But the industrial cost of each of those custom parts is close to US $600! ☠️ 💰, And not to mention that after the modding is done you can't move the laptop anymore since you will need a big 🧳to fit it ( the cooling solution is the size of 2 closed laptops under the unit )
Worst thermal design ever. Congrat Apple you made a super power computer that it's useless, mine got stuck all the time with kernel_task process trying to throttle the cpu. Me and some other colleagues are returning this shitty laptop to our company as it's unusable.
@@ziggolo77 🤣🤣🤣 , yeah ... they can become a really big hemorroid ! Specially when the thermal paste dries out and dust+dirt clogs the internal heatsinks/fans , they turn into a brick made by APpLE 🍎
@@Stealth3dfx Would it make sense to remove the bottom cover and operate with it removed? I do not know if you can, but if that makes you can put the fans directly I think it would gain in dissipation ...
Or burst the famous design and make some cuts to the bottom cover and that more air enters?
My 2019 does not have a fan i under clocked the cpu and it runs like a dream with 2 external moniters even with the fan attached it was never running and it has ran for a year with no fan flawlessly
how did you do this and is 4k editing still possible withoout issues? looking to buy a refurbished ones for 4k iphone editing
I bought MacBook Pro 16 2019 too and if I trade it then they are ready to give me M1 MacBook Air but I didn’t took it cause I’ve felt like Iam missing many things in M1 air and 16 is much better than M1 air
Thanks Sir.
Most welcome
Same thing here, macbook pro 2019 i9 16gb ram. Not only the fans are annoying, the macbook turns really hot when doing pretty normal stuff like a zoom meeting. This model is the worst mac ever
spotlight is the main problem... don't let it scan your drive, you loose spotlight but the mac will becomes quieter...
How to stop spotlight?
@@armandmugabo1170 you can't but in preferences, you can ask spotlight not to scan your disks...
Guys based on your experience, I have to models to choose at work as company laptop, one of them is Pro 16 i9 and Air M1. Which would you recommend ?
I don't own the air, but for a general use company laptop I'd be very tempted by it! Even for some heavier duty work it makes more sense than the old intel machines.
@@FlyingSi thanks a lot, will choose this one then !
I have a fully speeced out Pro 16 i9 and I would still suggest you get the Air M1. It will still have a better resale value in the long run, has magsafe and would not cause you overheating issues
Does this have an update for ventura
I believe it’s still working in Ventura, although my feeling is that the performance in general under Ventura is a bit worse.
This MBP 2019 without dedicated video (just intel onboard) have the same overheating issues?
That's a very good question. I honestly don't know, although I suspect it may not be as bad if it does...
The M1 / Max / Pro Mac's should fix this entirely without having to check a "Low power mode" box. I know not everybody can do that, but this can be a temporary solution to jet plane like sounding fans for those that do have intel chips.
M1 is a game changer! I’ve got a studio ultra and, whilst I’ve managed to get warm air to blow out of the back, the fans have never ramped up. It’s such a shame the Jony Ive generation of design prioritised form over function as those i9 MacBooks should, on paper, be amazing.
@@FlyingSi the problem with Mr. Ive was that He overlapped his role of industrial designer with that of a "personal niche fashionista" for Steve Jobs, he was close to him and was treated like a god in the company, Notorious for acting up like a prick when contradicted... when Jobs died things started to change in the company and he "didn't like" the way things were going , he felt he had lost "support and appreciation" inside the company and left with a bang.... anyways Tim Cook has been on point correcting many mistakes Ive made over the years with Jobs including the design failure of the 2019 16" MacBooks ...
Product Design PROBLEM. Spent more money and used on low performance.
Apple has really went downhill over the years as far as design goes.
They certainly went downhill a few years ago, but I think the new MacBooks (lets not talk about the 10th gen iPad ;) ) are a return to the Apple of old.
@@FlyingSi same model same issue. Sold my 2015 macbook and arguably lasted much longer and performed more reliably. This with the crackling audio glitch in this model specifically is a JOKE!
@@ssserotonin1373 sorry to hear that you’re suffering as well. I think I’m lucky as I don’t have the glitching audio, at least!
It starts burning as soon as I download or use CC. Impossible to use. 32GB RAM so must be the processor
It’s crazy, isn’t it?
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I’ll try and talk crazy fast next time…
holy shit you have literally the exact set up i do, same monitor, same laptop..same problem lol
i also use it for logic/ableton/premier and the cpu has been horrid.