Hi
Today my Mac mini 2009 late model's hdd crashed. I'm now considering upgrading to 2012 i7, 2,3 GHz model. Does anyone know how the noise level is when comparing the two?
Thanks
Other than hard drive clicking, I've yet to hear a peep from my 2012 quad.
What model/specs did you buy?
The base i7 quad. Upgraded the RAM to 16GB. I've done some heavy duty audio work on it, and some HD video work. Haven't used Final Cut yet, and I don't use Handbrake, but for what I've done so far, it's just as quiet as my late 2009 Mini.
Great to hear! And what drive did you choose?
The base i7 quad. Upgraded the RAM to 16GB. I've done some heavy duty audio work on it, and some HD video work. Haven't used Final Cut yet, and I don't use Handbrake, but for what I've done so far, it's just as quiet as my late 2009 Mini.
Just to add to this, in case this is still interesting to some: My i7 2.6 Ghz Mac Mini becomes extremely noisy under heavy load (rendering in Final Cut Pro X or transcoding in Handbrake). I was a bit shocked at first by the amount of noise that thing can generate, seeing how I hardly ever heard anything from my 2009 Mac Mini.
The Mac Mini is hidden away behind my monitor (with ample room for ventilation, of course), yet I could not listen to music at a "normal" volume while rendering a video in FCP X due to the fan noise. Not a major issue, as rendering/transcoding is usually a "dedicated" task (i.e. I don't expect to do anything else while doing that).
No other tasks have elicited any kind of fan noise though. I have an external WD hard drive and the silent "hiss" of the hard drive's fan is usually the only thing I hear.
Addendum: The fan noise only appears to occur when the CPU usage is pushed up to >700% (implying near-full usage of the 8 virtual cores), i.e. only when the CPU is used very efficiently, which FCP X seems to do during all rendering tasks, while Handbrake sometimes hovers around 400%, depending on the kind of task.
Hi
Today my Mac mini 2009 late model's hdd crashed. I'm now considering upgrading to 2012 i7, 2,3 GHz model. Does anyone know how the noise level is when comparing the two?
Thanks
As my experience with my 2.6Ghz i7 Mac Mini is completely different, it seems to imply that the 2.6Ghz model gets significantly hotter.I tried to stress my new 2012 mini and see if I could get the fans loud by running BOINC at 100% processor output on all 8 virtual cores for a few hours. The fans only got up to 2300 RPM (base is 1800 RPM) and I couldn't hear it at all. No fan control program installed. I was impressed.
I played a Bluray movie with VLC and the CPU percentage used by VLC stayed around 60% - hardly enough to cause any heat buildup or fan noise.How cool and quiet is Mac mini running while playing Blu-Ray movies, please?