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May 29, 2008, 01:59

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TorchMusic CoolBook Settings

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Mac newbie, I need help figuring out CoolBook settings. Please
Join Date: Jan 2008 share detailed instructions.
Thanks.
May 29, 2008, 10:02

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wordy 2 text files in the .dmg give very clear instructions.

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May 29, 2008, 11:43

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ayeying I think he/she meant voltage settings.

macrumors 68040
It depends, some air owners with 1.6GHz can undervolt to
0.900Volts for all speeds from 600MHz to 1.6GHz while others
can't. Each system is built slightly differently. My 1.6GHz cannot
be undervolted below 1.000Volts without KPs. You have to test
them out to see what settings you can have.
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trentiles Here's the "official" coolbook thread.

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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=460146
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Location: Washington DC
11 pages of coolbook goodness.
Nov 9, 2009, 01:40 PM #5
quietstorm my xperience with coolbook 2.16

macrumors newbie
ok, first things first, if u want to eliminate thermal issues on ur
Join Date: Oct 2009 mac air, dont place it on any soft material, sush as a mattress, a
blanket or ur laps....
now on to my review on coolbook app + fan controllers
i played with a 2.13Mhz SSD128, nvidia9400M mac air
for my xpreminets i used:

coolbook 2.16 (8 euros)
smc fan controller 2.2.2 (free)
fan control 1.1 (free - in.settings applet)
i also used tinkertool (free, extra settings applet) & osx

automator
first i dloaded, purchased, installed and activated coolbook 2.16
coolbook is 2 things:
1. a low level driver that (hm...) appears to DISABLE Intel
Speedstep driver ( more later)
2. a small applet that is used to monitor/configure the driver.
after activation i opened the "CoolBookControler" app and added

the following:
0798 Mhz @ 0,9250V (lowest possible). Access that by clicking
B/2
1064 MHz @ 0,9250V
1596 Mhz @ 0,9250V
1862 Mhz @ 0,9250V
1995 MHz @ 0,9250V
2128 MHz @ 0,9250V
so, as u can see i pretty much set all speeds to lowest possible
voltage. default voltage for max speed (2128mhz) is 1.0125.
i also set Throttling level HIGH and Temp limit 85C. finally, i
checked Throttling active & coolbook active
From the coolbook controller menu i chose Preferences, checked
menu display and entered my account/pass in the Keychain to

avoid being asked for pass whenever coolbook controller was run.
Using Tinkertool i added coolbook controller to my startup folder.
coolbook controller DOES NOT need to run as it is the low level

driver that does the job, but running the controller displays useful
information.
what then happens when a user installs coolbook?
coolbook advertises that it lowers cpu voltage ( since version 2.15

also in snow leopard). I wasnt able to verify that with a third
party app. After searching for a voltage monitor i only found a
freeware applet called cpu x, which correctly identified cpu specs
but was unable to display cpu voltage although such a tab existed
inside cpu x ( it was blank).
Coolbook also advertises that it's usage reduces cpu heat. Third
party applications, such as smc fan controller or the well known
iStats, however, have a different opinion. More specifically
whereas coolbook internal cpu monitor will report a temperature
of 70C, iStat & smc will report a temperature of apprx. 79-80C,
and when CB will report a temperature of 80C, iStat and other
appz will report 90C+. It is therefore hard to believe coolbook....
so is there a difference... well, there is.... it appears that

CoolBook, regardless of whether it manages to reduce cpu voltage
and whether or not this has any effect on cpu temperature, IT
INDEED DOES something ELSE: and this is to disable Intel
SpeedStep.....
now a bit of low level tech..... back in the old years CPUs didnt
even need a fan.... however, as cpu chips became more complex
and power hungry, they produced more heat and fans were
implemented. What then happens if a fan... fails....? ancient cpus
simply & literally burned up! Intel then (followed by AMD)
implemented a rather crude on-chip algorithm that simply SHUT
DOWN the cpu once a specific temperature was reached. That
saved the hardware but .... resulted in a system crash....
Today CPU chips are so powerful that a fan is in many cases

inadequate to cool them down. CPU makers discovered that their
chips would benefit, heat-wise, if they could implement a much
more complex algorithm, which instead of shutting the entire cpu
down, would be able to shut down portions (= individual cores) of
the chip and/or reduce the frequency (MHz) of portions of the
chip. So far so good but it was also discovered that unless OS
was signaled and aware of such measures, still OS would hang as
a result of these cpu activities. It was then made clear that this
complex on chip procedure of powering down portions of the cpu
chip had to go side by side with an OS driver, actually the OS
driver would be the one to MANAGE the cpu power downs.... that
is Intel Speedstep technology.....
CB appears to DISABLE mac osX driver for Intel Speedstep and

place its OWN Driver in its place. CoolBook driver will then ALLOW
both cpu cores to CONTINUE TO OPERATE even if cpu exceeds
90C....
on a regular mac air, as soon as u start playing a 1080p divx

movie (mkv format wont play at all @ 1080p) temperature will
start rising according to iStat and once it reaches 80C+.... movie
says bye bye.....
if u install coolbook and do the same test, u will notice that when
coolbook's internal temp monitor reaches 79-80, iStat and all
other temp monitors will be reporting a threatening temp of 90-
95C BUT movie will still be playing... In my opinion, iStat is
correct, ur mac air's temp at that moment is indeed 90C+, but
CB, having disabled the speedstep driver , leaves the cpu running
and only intervenes to lower the frequency by a little bit
(speedstep would completely shut down one of the 2 cores).
Computer will run nicely though.... in my view this is due to the

fact that intel chips can actually sustain themselves up to
temperatures a little bit above 100C ( up to 105-110 i have seen
in PCs).
One thing u will notice when using CB is that disabling the default
speedstep driver has at least one side effect. Once the FAN
reaches a specific RPM, IT WIIL NOT BACK DOWN even if
temperature falls significantly. That means that whereas a regular
mac air will drop the fan speed to 2.5K if its temp drops below
60C, after coolbook is installed, mac air cpu fan will start low but
once it reaches a higher rpm even for 1 sec, it will remain there
regardless of temperature fluctuations. How can the user mitigate
that and relax his fan from running at full speed needlessly?
There is a freeware applet called smc fan controller. By default

this app only sets the LOWEST RPM but one can use the osx
terminal to set MAX speed.
the command is :
/Applications/smcFanControl.app/Contents/Resources/smc -k F0Mx
-w 3e80
and it will set a MAX fan speed to 4000RPM. This is a crude
solution that prohibits the fan from rotating above 4K RPM, EVEN
IF NEEDED. From what i have seen, fan will actually reach 5K
RPM if cpu is really stressed but it will never reach 6.2K rpm....
The above command must be rerun after each start up but u can
use automator to create a script which will run at startup....
the combination of these 2 appz will result in the following.
cpu will run without cores shutting down at temperatures above

80C and this seems to enable lots of 720p/1080p high definition
movies to display at acceptable fps and particularly without
lockups. The fan will start low but once it gradually reaches
4Krpm it will fluctuate between 4K and 5K+ RPM until system is
shut down, regardless of cpu temperature. Keeping in mind that
mac default min setting for the fan is 1500 and for light activities
it almost always rises to 2.5K rpm the extra burden on the fan is
just 1.5K rpm, much lower than 3.7K rpm burden imposed on the
fan if coolbook is run without the smc....
With these settings mac air seems to be operable and the fact
that cpu will reach 95C during video pback doesnt seem to hurt
it. I also noticed that HD playback will not force the cpu above
100C, even if mac air is placed on a soft bed...
dont know if this will help u boys and girls... i hope it will and i
tried to be as precise as possible. these are indeed dangerous
games and no test will be enough to prove the opposite.
Obviously intel and apple had their reasons to limit their products
as they did but for people like myself who believe that tweaking
their gadgets is part of the fun of owning them, this thread is
very interesting... just bear in mind that mac air is an expensive
gadget and u might destroy it or shorten its life significantly by
playing with and changing/disabling cpu voltages, fan speeds and
the built in temperature reduction features. having said that and
apart from the fun, it is indeed sad that bad software and bad
thermal design have rendered this quite powerful computer unable
to easily play publicly available hd video formats out of the box.
Nov 9, 2009, 02:19 PM #6
ayeying Quote:
macrumors 68040
Originally Posted by quietstorm
ok, first things first, if u want to eliminate thermal issues
on ur mac air, dont place it on any soft material, sush as
a mattress, a blanket or ur laps....

Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Yay Area, CA i played with a 2.13Mhz SSD128, nvidia9400M mac air


automator
first i dloaded, purchased, installed and activated

coolbook 2.16
1. a low level driver that (hm...) appears to DISABLE
Intel Speedstep driver ( more later)
2. a small applet that is used to monitor/configure the
driver.
after activation i opened the "CoolBookControler" app and

added the following:
0798 Mhz @ 0,9250V (lowest possible). Access that by
clicking B/2
1064 MHz @ 0,9250V

1596 Mhz @ 0,9250V
1862 Mhz @ 0,9250V
1995 MHz @ 0,9250V
2128 MHz @ 0,9250V
so, as u can see i pretty much set all speeds to lowest

possible voltage. default voltage for max speed
(2128mhz) is 1.0125.
i also set Throttling level HIGH and Temp limit 85C.

finally, i checked Throttling active & coolbook active
From the coolbook controller menu i chose Preferences,

checked menu display and entered my account/pass in
the Keychain to avoid being asked for pass whenever
coolbook controller was run. Using Tinkertool i added
coolbook controller to my startup folder.
coolbook controller DOES NOT need to run as it is the low

level driver that does the job, but running the controller
displays useful information.
coolbook advertises that it lowers cpu voltage ( since

version 2.15 also in snow leopard). I wasnt able to verify
that with a third party app. After searching for a voltage
monitor i only found a freeware applet called cpu x, which
correctly identified cpu specs but was unable to display
cpu voltage although such a tab existed inside cpu x ( it
was blank).
Coolbook also advertises that it's usage reduces cpu heat.

Third party applications, such as smc fan controller or the
well known iStats, however, have a different opinion.
More specifically whereas coolbook internal cpu monitor
will report a temperature of 70C, iStat & smc will report a
temperature of apprx. 79-80C, and when CB will report a
temperature of 80C, iStat and other appz will report
90C+. It is therefore hard to believe coolbook....

CoolBook, regardless of whether it manages to reduce
cpu voltage and whether or not this has any effect on cpu
temperature, IT INDEED DOES something ELSE: and this
is to disable Intel SpeedStep.....
now a bit of low level tech..... back in the old years CPUs
didnt even need a fan.... however, as cpu chips became
more complex and power hungry, they produced more
heat and fans were implemented. What then happens if a
fan... fails....? ancient cpus simply & literally burned up!
Intel then (followed by AMD) implemented a rather crude
on-chip algorithm that simply SHUT DOWN the cpu once
a specific temperature was reached. That saved the
hardware but .... resulted in a system crash....
Today CPU chips are so powerful that a fan is in many

cases inadequate to cool them down. CPU makers
discovered that their chips would benefit, heat-wise, if
they could implement a much more complex algorithm,
which instead of shutting the entire cpu down, would be
able to shut down portions (= individual cores) of the
chip and/or reduce the frequency (MHz) of portions of the
chip. So far so good but it was also discovered that unless
OS was signaled and aware of such measures, still OS
would hang as a result of these cpu activities. It was then
made clear that this complex on chip procedure of
powering down portions of the cpu chip had to go side by
side with an OS driver, actually the OS driver would be
the one to MANAGE the cpu power downs.... that is Intel
Speedstep technology.....
CB appears to DISABLE mac osX driver for Intel

Speedstep and place its OWN Driver in its place. CoolBook
driver will then ALLOW both cpu cores to CONTINUE TO
OPERATE even if cpu exceeds 90C....
on a regular mac air, as soon as u start playing a 1080p

divx movie (mkv format wont play at all @ 1080p)
temperature will start rising according to iStat and once it
reaches 80C+.... movie says bye bye.....
if u install coolbook and do the same test, u will notice

that when coolbook's internal temp monitor reaches 79-
80, iStat and all other temp monitors will be reporting a
threatening temp of 90-95C BUT movie will still be
playing... In my opinion, iStat is correct, ur mac air's
temp at that moment is indeed 90C+, but CB, having
disabled the speedstep driver , leaves the cpu running
(speedstep would completely shut down one of the 2
cores).
Computer will run nicely though.... in my view this is due

to the fact that intel chips can actually sustain themselves
up to temperatures a little bit above 100C ( up to 105-
110 i have seen in PCs).
One thing u will notice when using CB is that disabling

the default speedstep driver has at least one side effect.
Once the FAN reaches a specific RPM, IT WIIL NOT BACK
DOWN even if temperature falls significantly. That means
that whereas a regular mac air will drop the fan speed to
2.5K if its temp drops below 60C, after coolbook is
installed, mac air cpu fan will start low but once it
reaches a higher rpm even for 1 sec, it will remain there
regardless of temperature fluctuations. How can the user
mitigate that and relax his fan from running at full speed
needlessly?
There is a freeware applet called smc fan controller. By

default this app only sets the LOWEST RPM but one can
use the osx terminal to set MAX speed.
the command is :
/Applications/smcFanControl.app/Contents/Resources/smc
-k F0Mx -w 3e80
and it will set a MAX fan speed to 4000RPM. This is a
crude solution that prohibits the fan from rotating above
4K RPM, EVEN IF NEEDED. From what i have seen, fan
will actually reach 5K RPM if cpu is really stressed but it
will never reach 6.2K rpm....
The above command must be rerun after each start up

but u can use automator to create a script which will run
at startup....
the combination of these 2 appz will result in the

following.
cpu will run without cores shutting down at temperatures

above 80C and this seems to enable lots of 720p/1080p
high definition movies to display at acceptable fps and
particularly without lockups. The fan will start low but
once it gradually reaches 4Krpm it will fluctuate between
4K and 5K+ RPM until system is shut down, regardless of
cpu temperature. Keeping in mind that mac default min
setting for the fan is 1500 and for light activities it almost
always rises to 2.5K rpm the extra burden on the fan is
just 1.5K rpm, much lower than 3.7K rpm burden
imposed on the fan if coolbook is run without the smc....
With these settings mac air seems to be operable and the

fact that cpu will reach 95C during video pback doesnt
seem to hurt it. I also noticed that HD playback will not
force the cpu above 100C, even if mac air is placed on a
soft bed...
dont know if this will help u boys and girls... i hope it will
and i tried to be as precise as possible. these are indeed
dangerous games and no test will be enough to prove the
opposite. Obviously intel and apple had their reasons to
limit their products as they did but for people like myself
who believe that tweaking their gadgets is part of the fun
of owning them, this thread is very interesting... just bear
in mind that mac air is an expensive gadget and u might
destroy it or shorten its life significantly by playing with
and changing/disabling cpu voltages, fan speeds and the
built in temperature reduction features. having said that
and apart from the fun, it is indeed sad that bad software
and bad thermal design have rendered this quite powerful
computer unable to easily play publicly available hd video
formats out of the box.
1) Speedstep was originally created to save energy in laptops,

heat was considered but it wasn't the top priority. When you're
idling, do you really need 2.13GHz? No, you can manage even at
100MHz.
2) The CPUs are powerful, but the design flaw is that the Air is so
thin, a massive heatsink or even an adequate heatsink isn't
available or even possible on something this thin. By thin, I'm
talking about the clearance of about 1-2mm for air flow. You
don't see this type of underclocking happening on the MacBook or
MacBook Pro's because they have a larger heatsink and larger
fans providing more air flow.
3) If you search for a post I've done a while ago, my Air's fan
stopped running and I was able to run the system for hours
without any major issues. While it is true, these CPUs are more
complex than before, it is still possible to run without fans, as
long as the heatsink is large enough to draw the heat away from
the diode.
4) The stock fan speed is actually 2500RPM, not 1500RPM or

1800RPM. The programs apparently slows down the fan to a
limited 1500RPM or 1800RPM.
5) HD videos are kinda meh for me. I am able to run 1080p MKV
files fairly well but in reality, I wouldn't need to. The screen only
allows 1280x800 and a 1080p video is 1920x1080. Talk about a
waste of CPU usage for something that the screen cannot show
all the area on the screen. A regular 720p runs nicely on the Air.
Lastly, I don't even bother using Coolbook on the Mac side

anymore. I see no real benefits and it seems to make the system
run hotter. On the Windows side, I have configured nVidia nTune
to actually overclock the CPU to 2.6GHz, which is able to sustain
provided I had enough cooling, otherwise it'll downclock to
1.95GHz, still better then the 1.6GHz before, for heavy tasks such
as Gaming and BOINC. If you want fans to be more dynamic,
disable programs such as Coolbook and Fan Control.
smcFanControl is fine because it doesn't interfere with the normal
SMC operations of the fan.
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Nov 10, 2009, 02:10 PM #7
joaquinsfy Quote:
macrumors newbie
Join Date: Mar 2008 ok, first things first, if u want to eliminate thermal issues
on ur mac air, dont place it on any soft material, sush as
a mattress, a blanket or ur laps....
i played with a 2.13Mhz SSD128, nvidia9400M mac air


automator

coolbook 2.16
1. a low level driver that (hm...) appears to DISABLE
Intel Speedstep driver ( more later)
2. a small applet that is used to monitor/configure the
driver.
after activation i opened the "CoolBookControler" app and

added the following:
0798 Mhz @ 0,9250V (lowest possible). Access that by
clicking B/2
1064 MHz @ 0,9250V
1596 Mhz @ 0,9250V
1862 Mhz @ 0,9250V
1995 MHz @ 0,9250V
2128 MHz @ 0,9250V
so, as u can see i pretty much set all speeds to lowest

possible voltage. default voltage for max speed
(2128mhz) is 1.0125.
i also set Throttling level HIGH and Temp limit 85C.

finally, i checked Throttling active & coolbook active
From the coolbook controller menu i chose Preferences,

checked menu display and entered my account/pass in
the Keychain to avoid being asked for pass whenever
coolbook controller was run. Using Tinkertool i added
coolbook controller to my startup folder.
coolbook controller DOES NOT need to run as it is the low

level driver that does the job, but running the controller
displays useful information.
coolbook advertises that it lowers cpu voltage ( since

version 2.15 also in snow leopard). I wasnt able to verify
that with a third party app. After searching for a voltage
monitor i only found a freeware applet called cpu x, which
correctly identified cpu specs but was unable to display
cpu voltage although such a tab existed inside cpu x ( it
was blank).
Coolbook also advertises that it's usage reduces cpu heat.

Third party applications, such as smc fan controller or the
well known iStats, however, have a different opinion.
More specifically whereas coolbook internal cpu monitor
will report a temperature of 70C, iStat & smc will report a

temperature of apprx. 79-80C, and when CB will report a
temperature of 80C, iStat and other appz will report
90C+. It is therefore hard to believe coolbook....

CoolBook, regardless of whether it manages to reduce
cpu voltage and whether or not this has any effect on cpu
temperature, IT INDEED DOES something ELSE: and this
is to disable Intel SpeedStep.....
now a bit of low level tech..... back in the old years CPUs
didnt even need a fan.... however, as cpu chips became
more complex and power hungry, they produced more
heat and fans were implemented. What then happens if a
fan... fails....? ancient cpus simply & literally burned up!
Intel then (followed by AMD) implemented a rather crude
on-chip algorithm that simply SHUT DOWN the cpu once
a specific temperature was reached. That saved the
hardware but .... resulted in a system crash....
Today CPU chips are so powerful that a fan is in many

cases inadequate to cool them down. CPU makers
discovered that their chips would benefit, heat-wise, if
they could implement a much more complex algorithm,
which instead of shutting the entire cpu down, would be
able to shut down portions (= individual cores) of the
chip and/or reduce the frequency (MHz) of portions of the
chip. So far so good but it was also discovered that unless
OS was signaled and aware of such measures, still OS
would hang as a result of these cpu activities. It was then
made clear that this complex on chip procedure of
powering down portions of the cpu chip had to go side by
side with an OS driver, actually the OS driver would be
the one to MANAGE the cpu power downs.... that is Intel
Speedstep technology.....
CB appears to DISABLE mac osX driver for Intel

Speedstep and place its OWN Driver in its place. CoolBook
driver will then ALLOW both cpu cores to CONTINUE TO
OPERATE even if cpu exceeds 90C....
on a regular mac air, as soon as u start playing a 1080p

divx movie (mkv format wont play at all @ 1080p)
temperature will start rising according to iStat and once it
reaches 80C+.... movie says bye bye.....
if u install coolbook and do the same test, u will notice

that when coolbook's internal temp monitor reaches 79-
80, iStat and all other temp monitors will be reporting a
threatening temp of 90-95C BUT movie will still be
playing... In my opinion, iStat is correct, ur mac air's
temp at that moment is indeed 90C+, but CB, having
disabled the speedstep driver , leaves the cpu running
(speedstep would completely shut down one of the 2
cores).
Computer will run nicely though.... in my view this is due

to the fact that intel chips can actually sustain themselves
up to temperatures a little bit above 100C ( up to 105-
110 i have seen in PCs).
One thing u will notice when using CB is that disabling

the default speedstep driver has at least one side effect.
Once the FAN reaches a specific RPM, IT WIIL NOT BACK
DOWN even if temperature falls significantly. That means
that whereas a regular mac air will drop the fan speed to
2.5K if its temp drops below 60C, after coolbook is
installed, mac air cpu fan will start low but once it
reaches a higher rpm even for 1 sec, it will remain there
regardless of temperature fluctuations. How can the user
mitigate that and relax his fan from running at full speed
needlessly?
There is a freeware applet called smc fan controller. By

default this app only sets the LOWEST RPM but one can
use the osx terminal to set MAX speed.
the command is :
/Applications/smcFanControl.app/Contents/Resources/smc
-k F0Mx -w 3e80
and it will set a MAX fan speed to 4000RPM. This is a
crude solution that prohibits the fan from rotating above
4K RPM, EVEN IF NEEDED. From what i have seen, fan
will actually reach 5K RPM if cpu is really stressed but it
will never reach 6.2K rpm....
The above command must be rerun after each start up

but u can use automator to create a script which will run
at startup....
the combination of these 2 appz will result in the

following.
cpu will run without cores shutting down at temperatures

above 80C and this seems to enable lots of 720p/1080p
high definition movies to display at acceptable fps and
particularly without lockups. The fan will start low but
once it gradually reaches 4Krpm it will fluctuate between
4K and 5K+ RPM until system is shut down, regardless of
cpu temperature. Keeping in mind that mac default min
setting for the fan is 1500 and for light activities it almost
always rises to 2.5K rpm the extra burden on the fan is
just 1.5K rpm, much lower than 3.7K rpm burden
imposed on the fan if coolbook is run without the smc....
With these settings mac air seems to be operable and the

fact that cpu will reach 95C during video pback doesnt
seem to hurt it. I also noticed that HD playback will not
force the cpu above 100C, even if mac air is placed on a
soft bed...
dont know if this will help u boys and girls... i hope it will
and i tried to be as precise as possible. these are indeed

dangerous games and no test will be enough to prove the
opposite. Obviously intel and apple had their reasons to
limit their products as they did but for people like myself
who believe that tweaking their gadgets is part of the fun
of owning them, this thread is very interesting... just bear
in mind that mac air is an expensive gadget and u might
destroy it or shorten its life significantly by playing with
and changing/disabling cpu voltages, fan speeds and the
built in temperature reduction features. having said that
and apart from the fun, it is indeed sad that bad software
and bad thermal design have rendered this quite powerful
computer unable to easily play publicly available hd video
formats out of the box.
I agree 100% with your posts.
The mba 1st gen, needs Coolbook and SMCfancontrol.

Every update, i tried to un-used this applications, and finally i
install this applications again......
Good Post.
Nov 10, 2009, 07:56 PM #8
Mr. Zarniwoop re: my xperience with coolbook 2.16

macrumors regular
Quote:
Join Date: Jun 2005
[...]
coolbook 2.16
Where'd you get 2.16? 2.15 seems to be the latest on the

Coolbook website...
Nov 11, 2009, 02:49

#9
AM
yashrg Yeah, I was wondering about 2.16 as well.

macrumors member
Also, on my snow leopard install, Every time I launch coolbook, I
Join Date: Feb 2008
get the message installation failed and the coolbook active
checkbox is unchecked at all times!
Nov 13, 2009, 12:27

#10
AM
AIRniloc Quote:
macrumors regular
Originally Posted by yashrg
Join Date: Dec 2008 Yeah, I was wondering about 2.16 as well.
Location: anozira
Also, on my snow leopard install, Every time I launch
coolbook, I get the message installation failed and the
coolbook active checkbox is unchecked at all times!
un-install then re-install coolbook
on another note: since performing the 10.6.2 update, has anyone

else been getting the message 'this update requires a reboot'
when launching the coolbook controller?? it's bugging me..
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Nov 14, 2009, 05:29 PM #11
Lounge Deluxe Quote:

macrumors member
Originally Posted by AIRniloc
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Amsterdam on another note: since performing the 10.6.2 update, has
anyone else been getting the message 'this update
requires a reboot' when launching the coolbook
controller?? it's bugging me..
From a thread about Coolbook and 10.6.2 in the MacBookPro

forum, posted by n3092:
Dear CoolBook user,
I'm getting a lot of questions regarding the 10.6.2 update. Here is

some information about it.
The current SL CoolBook beta does not work with OS X 10.6.2.

I will release a fixed version later this week.
Your current CoolBook installation does not interfere with OS X,

so you don't have to uninstall it. Turn off throttling to disable
CoolBook completely until the update is released.
The dialog window about the update is a bug. No update was

performed.
A working uninstaller will of course be included in the next

release.
Do not use any third party uninstallers. If you need to manually
uninstall CoolBook, let me know so I can help you.
Best regards,
Magnus Lundholm
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May 29, 2008, 01:59

TorchMusic CoolBook Settings

May 29, 2008, 10:02

wordy 2 text files in the .dmg give very clear instructions.

Join Date: Feb 2008

May 29, 2008, 11:43

ayeying I think he/she meant voltage settings.

May 29, 2008, 12:54

trentiles Here's the "official" coolbook thread.

Nov 9, 2009, 01:40 PM #5

quietstorm my xperience with coolbook 2.16

now on to my review on coolbook app + fan controllers

i played with a 2.13Mhz SSD128, nvidia9400M mac air

for my xpreminets i used:

i also used tinkertool (free, extra settings applet) & osx

first i dloaded, purchased, installed and activated coolbook 2.16

after activation i opened the "CoolBookControler" app and added

From the coolbook controller menu i chose Preferences, checked

menu display and entered my account/pass in the Keychain to

coolbook controller DOES NOT need to run as it is the low level

what then happens when a user installs coolbook?

coolbook advertises that it lowers cpu voltage ( since version 2.15

so is there a difference... well, there is.... it appears that

Today CPU chips are so powerful that a fan is in many cases

CB appears to DISABLE mac osX driver for Intel Speedstep and

on a regular mac air, as soon as u start playing a 1080p divx

Computer will run nicely though.... in my view this is due to the

There is a freeware applet called smc fan controller. By default

the combination of these 2 appz will result in the following.

cpu will run without cores shutting down at temperatures above

fan if coolbook is run without the smc....

Nov 9, 2009, 02:19 PM #6

now on to my review on coolbook app + fan controllers

for my xpreminets i used:

i also used tinkertool (free, extra settings applet) & osx

first i dloaded, purchased, installed and activated

after activation i opened the "CoolBookControler" app and

1064 MHz @ 0,9250V

so, as u can see i pretty much set all speeds to lowest

i also set Throttling level HIGH and Temp limit 85C.

From the coolbook controller menu i chose Preferences,

coolbook controller DOES NOT need to run as it is the low

what then happens when a user installs coolbook?

coolbook advertises that it lowers cpu voltage ( since

Coolbook also advertises that it's usage reduces cpu heat.

so is there a difference... well, there is.... it appears that

Today CPU chips are so powerful that a fan is in many

CB appears to DISABLE mac osX driver for Intel

on a regular mac air, as soon as u start playing a 1080p

if u install coolbook and do the same test, u will notice

Computer will run nicely though.... in my view this is due

One thing u will notice when using CB is that disabling

There is a freeware applet called smc fan controller. By

use the osx terminal to set MAX speed.

The above command must be rerun after each start up

the combination of these 2 appz will result in the

cpu will run without cores shutting down at temperatures

With these settings mac air seems to be operable and the

1) Speedstep was originally created to save energy in laptops,

4) The stock fan speed is actually 2500RPM, not 1500RPM or