#SMCFANCONTROL FOR MACBOOK PRO SOFTWARE#

If you follow the instructions (no other fan control software is running etc.) you should have no problem running smcFanControl on a machine it has not been tested on. If you get the warning, smcFanControl tries to read out the fan-details directly from the System Management Controller. Technically smcFanControl supports every intel mac, but it does not come with defaults for every machine. I get a 'smcFanControl has not been tested on this machine' warning. They are just used for setting the appropriate rights.

The entered login and password are not saved by smcFanControl. Why does smcFanControl asks for a login and password and which login/password do I have to enter? smcFanControl needs the credentials of an admin-user to set the appropriate rights to be able to change fanspeed. However, the higher you set the minimum fan speed, the longer it will take for the fan speed to increase. smcFanControl lets the fans stay in automatic mode and just sets the minimum fan speed. Yes, fan speed will increase as defined by Apple. When I run smcFanControl and set a new minimum speed, will my fan speed still increase if the CPU load gets higher? Minimum fan speed then falls back to the system defaults values. All changes smcFanControl does to the fan controlling get lost after you shutdown your computer (power off, not restart) or enter standby mode (as far as you don't have smcFanControl running).

Smcfancontrol for macbook pro