Becareful with the M2 MBPs as I believe they have issues with right clicking and using the camera on the trackpad. If you are using a mouse it’s fine.
1 Like
Got my M3 max variation (14CPU/30CPU) and just setting it up. As long as I am careful the space black is beautiful, and my wife gave me permission to spend a bit more over the M2 (which I was able to return in the purchase window.)
I think I will keep this one, seems to run wow like it was nothing, and keeps pretty cool. Will test it out more tomorrow with adding. Was able to get the g600 operational without much hassle as also.
Kind of nice having the 32 GB memory buffer; at this point, not much variance from the M2 Pro chip otherwise.
2 Likes
Any tips on the oculus setting do I change that also to the fidelity or leave it alone at the AAOC or whatever it seems to default ?
Just got a m3 max to replace the M2 Max with 128 gbs. Biggest thing I notice is that it runs cooler, but fans are slightly louder (which I prefer).
I also noticed some of the newer effects in the emerald dream render better. FPS is an improvement, but not as big as I was expecting.
I turn off compute effects and lower liquid detail and I actually lock the FPS to 60; not everyone wants to do that but it most definitely runs things cooler and I never hear the fans anymore since I enabled low power mode. It’s pretty amazing on how well it runs wow though considering all that 
Oh I also enabled the high fidelity setting instead of point based on advice here as well.
Was playing 4k today. Just did a keystone. Can set the FPS to 150 if I wanted to on the m3 max, but I have it throttled to max lower FPS. And I’m multi tasking with a 2nd monitor @ 5k. It seems solid. Settings at 7 with the external monitor. Could run at 10 without the extra monitor.
Still happier on WoW with the Mac over my Nvidia. I’m not sure I can say that for other games on the Mac but the M1 seems to run WoW better than intel/ rog strix nvidia overall.
I think the M3 Max was the right choice.
2 Likes
Yep seems solid; not sure how much better it will be than an M2 pro, but I don’t want to go below 32gb so the cost is not much more for the max.
1 Like
fyi - I did sadly upgrade to Sonoma. It somehow changed the temperature of the machine.
And the fans weren’t going to up max speed to cool it off.
I thought all was lost until I found TG Pro. Its fixed it. Laptop is able to cool itself down, but currently Sonoma fan’s settings are out of whacked and apple will throttle your GPU instead of just raising the fan RPM.
If you’re having any type of FPS drop on the Mac, this could fix it. I’m running at 4k without issues now. But it was a rough week until I installed TG Pro. It takes some work to get it dialed in, and there are examples of TG Pros site. I recommend setting the fan thresholds for the GPU temp since that runs much higher than the CPU.
GL
1 Like
I can’t lie I installed Macs Fan Control which I assume does something similar; and let me tell you, it’s absolutely amazing.
I enabled sensor control as per one of the other threads, and now I am running around 50 celsius almost always simply because the fans are proactively on even a bit before, and the thing never gets that hot.
I ran it in some LFR and some massive engagements in world bosses and vald, and so far so good. There are the normal FPS drops that happen on e every system in wow, but not due to my computer being throttled.
So happy right now :_)
2 Likes
Yeah, even in the emerald dream where I believe has some “draw” issues with a bit of new graphic tech added I don’t have FPS drop. In raid, nothing. Even on the fights with other new graphic tech. M3 Max > Nvidia right now for this game anyways. Blows my mind.