Mac Geekery

Six weeks or so later after applying AS5 to my MBP.

Still no kernel panics or crashes where before I could count on it if I loaded down my processor.

I reran the OpenSSL benchmarks yesterday in similar environmental temps as immediately after applying the AS5.

Processor temp peaked at 85 and stayed there. It took over a minute to even reach 85. The fans stayed at 2000 rpm for over a minute into the test and they maxed out at 3000 once the temp peaked. Never went to full power (6000 rpm).

Within ten seconds of the speedtest completion the processor was back to 65. Ten seconds later it was back to idle temp of 60.

This tells me the AS5 has thermal cycled enough times to become fully effective.

Now I am a true believer that Apple needs to rethink their heatpipe installation procedures AND I am now a believer in the AS5 product.