Ohh, Prime95 is available on Mac? Sweet. I still remember it from my times overclocking PC based machines.
Post your results as soon as you've tested it with the auto setting for the fans.
yes I will . here are the two photos of the first cooling spot and the mini simply flipped to normal with no black plate. now in under ten minutes temps jumped up a lot. look at screen shots at 1:51 flipped up and 2:01 flipped down.
down if they don't stabilize real soon this machine will overheat. sitting on an 8 inch fan with no black plate and house temp is 79f.
I am running this same test on a 2010 core 2 duo mac mini wall mounted as i type I am going to check its temps.
it is running at 170f and the fans are only 3600rpm.
but it is wall mounted on its side.
now some would say why not wall mount my 2012 quad,
because My wall mounted mini needs a dvd player.
I am now 2 hours in.
here is an interesting tidbit my cpu has had possible hardware errors multiple times even with cooler temps. worker 1 has had more then 1 possible error while worker 8 has been fine.
So my cpu may be a loser
workers 1 2 and 7 have had possible errors.
that is 3 of 8 cores so all my tests may show I just have a bad cpu.
i did quite a few ram tests but I think I am going to put the oem ram back in the mini and re test everything.
one thing is true so far no throttle 2 hours of tests at 995 to 100% with the aid in cooling.
I will put the black plate on right not to see if it gets real hot.
went up a few more degrees still avoided throttle highest temp is 214 to 216 .
but it is sitting on a laptop cooler .
One thing this testing has shown to me is my cpu or my ram or both cpu test and prime95 have a problem.
the possible rounding errors on 3 of 8 cores is not very good. 30 minutes into the test wit the black plate on and I have stopped
at 219f for a max still no throttle. yesterday and the day before I never got past 217 with out the machine locking up or throttle. this was with cpu test not prime95 test. still 219c is about 104c and i am sitting on a laptop fan! I will run this for a half hour more then i will test with oem ram. I would like to know if the ram the cpu or both programs are wrong.
I just put the stock ram back this time 4 cores are failing on the prime95 test.
I am thinking the cpu is defective. which is not good for me . but may not effect other users as much.
I still wonder if the black screen issue goes hand in hand with this. I am going on intel's forum for a while. see what I find.