Is the 'Essential Electronics Toolkit' enough to open my MBP and 1+5T?

Thanks Dan! I followed your advice and installed TG Pro, now I can see the temperatures.

So far TG Pro hasn't detected anything wrong with my machine, but it still often gets warm even with just a 5 or less Chrome windows. I usually just close all other apps but it still gets to a point where it will hit 90c.

I installed Malwarebytes just now to see if something else is causing this.

How do you normally monitor your machine?

@rolandc3 - Chrome is a memory hog!

Depending on how much RAM your system has will limit you on how many Chrome windows you can have open based on the available RAM not already being used by your OS and other apps running.

Your system will jump to Virtual RAM when it is starved of real RAM. V-RAM uses your drive to make up for the shortage. Which is why your drive is running warm!

Here your drives available space then comes into question! A full drive will force the housecleaning process to find freed blocks cleaning them and if they have been heavy used move more stagnant data to these blocks (wear leveling). This too will cause the drive to get warm.

So what to do? Reduce your memory load as best as you can. I run a memory monitoring app like Memory Optimizer & Booster which sits in the menu bar so I can see the usage in real time and I can force the blocks to be freed up. A good version of the app can even show you the break down of what your apps are using. Next clean up your drive! free up at least 1/4 of the drive so your system is not fighting to find free space and don't need to do aggressive house cleaning and wear leveling.

Thanks, Dan. I'll follow your advice! Keep safe!