I recently got my 24 mid-2007 iMac running Mavericks back from my fiancee,
intending to try to learn iOS development with Xcode. One of the first
things I noticed was that the GPU Diode was running extremely hot. 100C at
idle, and 120C when taxing the GPU with XCOM Enemy Unknown. To try and
My fiancee has commandeered my 2007 Al iMac and is using it to store
her multi-terabyte video collection on it. So far she's filled the
built-in 320GB hard drive, and two USB drives, a 500GB and a 1 TB. The
point of this post is that she is now running out of space again.
We're out of USB ports,
I have a 24Aluminum iMac, of mid-2007 vintage I believe. After a few
months, I started running games on it in Windows - and promptly
encountered video artifacting. After much research, I found that
overheating was the cause of the problem. Installing fan control
software, like smcfancontrol and
