Did you read the thread?

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I highly recommend Arctic mx-4, check out the link in my post #6

I used Arctic MX-4 which is considerably better than Arctic Silver

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186038

Also, I'm sure the factory paste they used on mine wasn't great, but what is really concerning for this particular situation, is the terrible job they did applying my thermal paste.

Those pics show how I found my heat sink. Notice that the cores surface is shiny because there is hardly any paste on them; notice the copper on the heat sink, it's almost bare. Notice all the hard, crusty, excess and build-up around the copper on the heat sink and around the processor cores. It's like then just squirted a huge blob of paste on the cores, and then screwed the heatsink back on as tight as they could.

Hey man, make no mistake, this is a really simple, basic thing that Apple fucked up on and there is no excuse. Apple does make really great machines, but stuff like this is unacceptable.

I've been on the fence about posting this because we all know Macs are not the most popular gaming computers, and this thread probably won't help that stigma. However, I wanted to post this success story in case any other players out there using Apple portables could benefit.

Please, please do not turn this thread into something where everyone just starts making fun of Apple.

So I've had my 2011 Macbook Pro for just over two years. In the first year of using it, I couldn't have been happier with its performance. I didn't buy this computer to game with. I've been using Mac portables since 2005, I've worked at Apple, and there are other reasons I chose to buy this computer, aside from gaming.

Note: I've always played tf2 on my Windows 7 partition, not osx.

Last year around August, my fps became lower on average. Every month, every tf2 update, my average fps became lower and lower and so on.

Since the start of 2013, tf2 has been barely playable. I'm talking about 60 fps max on a good day, but often 30 fps was normal. This was really bad.

About a month ago I began to benchmark my temps, and cpu performance, using hwmonitor and cpu-z respectively.

That's when I noticed my cpu throttling itself. Long story short, whenever tf2 was running, my cpu couldn't handle that load without overheating, so it would throttle itself down to the lowest multiplier (8/800mhz) and therefore my fps would be terrible.

What I did to fix it

1) I took the machine apart and cleaned out all the dust that had collected around the fans and vents.

2) But what really fixed everything, was replacing the factory thermal paste with my own application of Arctic mx-4.

My core temps are now 15-20 degrees celsius cooler. No joke

[TL;DR]Apple did a really bad job of applying the thermal paste on my 2011 Macbook Pro. So bad that the excess of paste around the diodes were causing overheating. I cleaned up their shitty job and put on Arctic Mx-4 and now my fps is higher than it ever was.

Here are pictures of what I found. This is embarrassing because it makes Apple look pretty bad.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/2013-05-16%2017.11.14.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/2013-05-16%2017.11.31.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/2013-05-16%2017.11.44.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/2013-05-16%2017.12.14.jpg

Know the right moments to make a call.

Don't talk too much.

If you aren't sure on what to do, ask your team what they wanna do.

Know that even though you are the main caller, you still have to listen to your team, and you shouldn't have to talk over them.

As nemo said, press tab a lot, give your team info when they're busy fighting (eg. guys we're 3 v 4 right now).

If you see someone doing a lot of damage/going in but not calling it, try to help them out and call their damage if you can, or ask your nearby teammates to assist; however, if you see people doing this stuff like not calling damage etc...talk to them about it after the game.

I think it's hard being main caller and playing medic; I feel it should be the pocket who does it, but every team is different.

Those are just some things from the top of my head, and they probably aren't very helpful, sorry.

good luck

Yeah having more RAM will not get you more FPS. A lot of people nowadays with nice rigs have 16gb ram, but 8 is really fine if you're not doing anything super hardcore with your computer.

Sounds lke that helped a lot! :)

There's no way to make the game realize that you're using a different weapon for a slot. You can change weapons all you want but you'r never going to make the game somehow know that you chose a weapon and you want that weapon to have a certain fov. You're going to somehow have to manually input the command for the viewmodel_fov. Like Goat_ said, you could maybe come up with something creative with the quickswitch menu, but that would be the most you could possibly do.

But I'll the best advice I can. I think it's much better to have viewmodels completely off for both the default RL and the original. However, I'd say that having viewmodels off for the original is almost a necessity.

Some people keep the viewmodel on for the default rocket launcher because it's on your player models shoulder and comes out an angle, so having the model on can help some peoples aim. However, the original rockets come out of the center of the screen, and the viewmodel is really ugly. You should really just turn off viewmodels for the original.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/hud.example.jpg

Spartacus is a cool dude. I have high hopes for him. Will go a long way with good guidance.

Why did he get banned?

I also play on a laptop (macbook pro)

When I first got this computer, about 2 years ago, it never dipped below 300 fps.

Then, last summer, an update came out and my frames started to drop. I figured it was the update. Every update after that my frames seemed to be even worse.

Then, just yesterday, I opened up my MBP and took a look inside. Guess what I found?

It's hard to see all of the dust that was in there before I cleaned it out, but it was a lot.

My cpu was throttling itself while tf2 was running, because under the load of tf2 it would have to completely throttle itself so that my computer didn't over heat. This was giving me terrible fps. As soon as I put her back together and booted tf2, I went from 40-60 fps back to 200+ with no dips.

CLEAN YOUR COMPUTER OUT.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/mac1.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/mac3.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43946806/mac4.jpg

or higher quality/better applied thermal paste

thank you based james p

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