2011 Mac Mini i7 .... 92 Degrees on full load...

Conanius · 26 Dec 2011 at 16:12

As topic,

Anyone else noticed how warm their Mac Mini gets on full load? I'm doing a conversion in handbrake and its absolutely rinsing the CPU, all four threads are flat out and the temperature is now at 92 degrees.

That sounds rather toasty to me, do I need to be scared yet?

Rizo-UK · 26 Dec 2011 at 16:14

Yup max temp is something like 72.8 on sandy i7s

RickST · 26 Dec 2011 at 16:26

I have the same problem with my MBP runs very hot when watching HD video and things of that nature, usually manually control the fan to cool it down.

Conanius · 26 Dec 2011 at 16:49

Fan is on maximum power (and still rather quiet I thought) ... I guess I won't be using this for much video conversion then !

FreeStream · 26 Dec 2011 at 17:03

Rizo-UK said:
Yup max temp is something like 72.8 on sandy i7s

Desktop ones perhaps, not Mobile chips!

Their TJunction is 100C.

And it will be fine. It's within spec.

My June 2007 MacBook Pro sat at 95-100C encoding for a few days at a time and that works A-ok still!

Conanius · 26 Dec 2011 at 17:11

ahah, thanks for the reply concorde rules !

I've been hugely impressed with performance so far. Interestingly OSX has addressed all 4GB of ram to 'doing stuff' when its encoding on Handbrake. Does that mean I'd see a performance increase in handbrake with 8GB ram? sounds unlikely to me, but I'm still new to understanding the power of OSX

FreeStream · 26 Dec 2011 at 18:20

Conanius said:
ahah, thanks for the reply concorde rules !

I've been hugely impressed with performance so far. Interestingly OSX has addressed all 4GB of ram to 'doing stuff' when its encoding on Handbrake. Does that mean I'd see a performance increase in handbrake with 8GB ram? sounds unlikely to me, but I'm still new to understanding the power of OSX

No,

Page Outs is the only really important thing to look at.

I have 280k page-ins but 0 page outs.

If you don't know what page-ins/outs are then they are basically the system writing to disk (page-in) and then reading from it (page-outs). Page outs are very slow and you want this at zero or a fraction of the page-ins if your really hammering it with multiple apps. I get a few with 12GB on my Mac Pro with VMWare Fusion (4GB assigned) and Lightroom, etc open.