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Euro_Hunter · Saturday at 12:39

cu3ed said:
Mwahahahaha.....got all screens working including a large 4 LG screen for movie stuff, no probs but a lot of "how the heck does it do that again?" stuff on my part.

That is an interesting idea, but don't images appear distorted at that viewing angle?

eldergeek · Saturday at 12:48

Euro_Hunter said:
That is an interesting idea, but don't images appear distorted at that viewing angle?

I wouldn't have thought so if he's sat directly in front of them

cu3ed · Saturday at 13:18

Euro_Hunter said:
That is an interesting idea, but don't images appear distorted at that viewing angle?

No not really, I mostly like playing abotu music prodiction etc so its used for station panels and tools, whilst any direct working things is on the upper monitor plus as said I sit directly in front of them.

nlel1975 · Sunday at 15:38

I've got a Mac Mini on Pre-order and realised I have no spare HDMI 2.1 cables. In fact the only HDMI 2.1 cable I have came with my monitor and is being used with my PC. My monitor will do 4K 240hz over HDMI 2.1 with DSC and it has 2x HDMI 2.1 inputs.

So I've ordered a Kenable Certified Ultra High Speed HDMI 2.1 Cable 8K 60Hz / 4K 120Hz 48Gbps White Plug 1m...

https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/hdmi-cables/hdmi-21-cables/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B092PZBNPY/ref=twister_B092PF41ZY?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194040421671

Therefore I should be able to get 4K 240hz over HDMI with the Mac Mini and this cable.

rp2000 · Sunday at 17:48

nlel1975 said:
I've got a Mac Mini on Pre-order and realised I have no spare HDMI 2.1 cables. In fact the only HDMI 2.1 cable I have came with my monitor and is being used with my PC. My monitor will do 4K 240hz over HDMI 2.1 with DSC and it has 2x HDMI 2.1 inputs.

So I've ordered a Kenable Certified Ultra High Speed HDMI 2.1 Cable 8K 60Hz / 4K 120Hz 48Gbps White Plug 1m...

https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/hdmi-cables/hdmi-21-cables/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B092PZBNPY/ref=twister_B092PF41ZY?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194040421671

Therefore I should be able to get 4K 240hz over HDMI with the Mac Mini and this cable.

I'm fairly sure you're gonna be limited to 120 or 144hz over HDMI. I'm certain that is the case with M3 Pro at least, that I have and the HDMI is the same.

No big deal, as I can't think of anything apart from a few games that would benefit 240hz.

rp2000

nlel1975 · Sunday at 18:24

rp2000 said:
I'm fairly sure you're gonna be limited to 120 or 144hz over HDMI. I'm certain that is the case with M3 Pro at least, that I have and the HDMI is the same.

No big deal, as I can't think of anything apart from a few games that would benefit 240hz.

Got my info from here…

Connect a display to Mac mini

Connect external displays to your Mac mini.

support.apple.com

Says with the Mac mini with Apple M4 you can…

Connect up to two displays, one with up to 5K resolution at 60 Hz over Thunderbolt, and one with up to 8K resolution at 60 Hz or 4K resolution at 240 Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI.

But as you say 120hz would be fine and would need a HDMI 2.1 cable anyway. As far as I’m aware HDMI 2.1 can only do 4K 240hz with DSC. You need DisplayPort 2.1 to do it without DSC.

rp2000 · Sunday at 20:40

nlel1975 said:
Got my info from here…

Connect a display to Mac mini

Connect external displays to your Mac mini.

support.apple.com

Says with the Mac mini with Apple M4 you can…

Connect up to two displays, one with up to 5K resolution at 60 Hz over Thunderbolt, and one with up to 8K resolution at 60 Hz or 4K resolution at 240 Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI.

But as you say 120hz would be fine and would need a HDMI 2.1 cable anyway. As far as I’m aware HDMI 2.1 can only do 4K 240hz with DSC. You need DisplayPort 2.1 to do it without DSC.

I stand corrected, or it's improved from M3!

I tried some (Acer or Asus) gaming monitor with my MBP about a year ago and it only went to 120hz in the display options whereas the screen supported 145 or 166.

rp2000

eldergeek · Sunday at 21:33

Am I right in thinking that all models of the M4 mini supports HDMI 2.1? If so that makes me reassess my plans for dual display

nlel1975 · Monday at 08:06

eldergeek said:
Am I right in thinking that all models of the M4 mini supports HDMI 2.1? If so that makes me reassess my plans for dual display

Yes that’s correct, they wouldn’t be able to output 120 Hz and above without HDMI 2.1.

eldergeek · Monday at 11:42

https://twitter.com/x/status/1866082086723228064

mick4545 · Tuesday at 10:19

Finally up and running, I notice that since I've switched to Mac, my NAS no longer hibernates. Does spotlight index files on the NAS?

I didn't realise how hot M.2 NVME drives ran. My OWC enclosure gets really warm. It's one big heatsink, shows it's doing its job I suppose.

picnic · Tuesday at 17:38

mick4545 said:
I didn't realise how hot M.2 NVME drives ran. My OWC enclosure gets really warm. It's one big heatsink, shows it's doing its job I suppose.

I guess it depends on how hard you're using it. My drive is 38 degrees in the OWC enclosure which is 5 degrees cooler than I was getting when installed in the fan assisted U-Green enclosure I was originally using! The U-Green was better for warming my hands :cry:

Raymond Lin · Tuesday at 19:00

picnic said:
I guess it depends on how hard you're using it. My drive is 38 degrees in the OWC enclosure which is 5 degrees cooler than I was getting when installed in the fan assisted U-Green enclosure I was originally using! The U-Green was better for warming my hands

Glad I went for OWC then!

mick4545 · 2024-12-12T09:34:10+0000

It’s just that I didn’t realize how hot they run, I have had them inside a PC before. I’m also glad I went with OWC, what a good job it does.

I stopped Spotlight from indexing it.

eldergeek · 2024-12-12T10:09:27+0000

15.2 dropped boys and girls, just in case you didn't get ininduated with notifications yet. Is anyone actually bothering to turn intelligence on to see if it affects performance?

Raymond Lin · 2024-12-12T10:10:28+0000

mick4545 said:
It’s just that I didn’t realize how hot they run, I have had them inside a PC before. I’m also glad I went with OWC, what a good job it does.

I stopped Spotlight from indexing it.

It would still run just as hot in a PC and with similar temp, or even higher temp? Since I don't know any heatsinks on a SSD inside a PC are this big.

rp2000 · 2024-12-12T10:18:02+0000

The 6 NVME I have in my pc idle at around 31-35c. When i copy a shedload of data to one, it can go up to 60. Then it rapidly drops back to 30s. 2x 980pro 3 x wd950x and 1 x crucial p5 plus. They have very thin basic heatsinks and a few of those rubber pads that probably make no difference !

Iirc most decent drives can happily idle at 40-45c plus and peak at 70c before throttling.

Just because you use them in a Mac instead of windows makes no difference, they are designed to go to higher temps and will not die!

Just had to get it off my chest as people are talking like NVME will blow up with a bit of heat!

rp2000

GMac11 · 2024-12-12T10:37:25+0000

eldergeek said:
15.2 dropped boys and girls, just in case you didn't get ininduated with notifications yet. Is anyone actually bothering to turn intelligence on to see if it affects performance?

Na, I'll let someone else do the beta testing on that one!
I HAVE enabled it on my phone to see how it goes but I've little need/use for it - even less so on my Mac.

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