Play games from USB pen drive / external drive

[Macintosh1984]

Hi!

There are advantages to play games from USB pen drive / external hard drive instead of internal HD?

I have an iMac 27 Late in 2012 with fusion drive.

I refer to the internal components temperature and fans.

 

[Dirtyharry50]

Hi!

There are advantages to play games from USB pen drive / external hard drive instead of internal HD?

I have an iMac 27 Late in 2012 with fusion drive.

I refer to the internal components temperature and fans.

Your Mac was made to be used. I see no reason to offload anything to an external device unless there is some clear benefit such as more storage is needed and this provides it, faster performance is desired and some external device provides it, etc. Otherwise, I would encourage you to not worry about it and just enjoy using the computer you paid good money for.

 

[EdwardSmith36]

yeah, even I agree with harry! Why would we use external device when we have paid a lot for our personal computer. It doesn't sounds smart!!

 

[Macintosh1984]

Thanks!

We must admit that our Macs are beautiful and functional, but also delicates about eat dissipation compared to other PCs, so I wanted to see if there is any solution for getting stressed less.

 

[edddeduck]

Thanks!

We must admit that our Macs are beautiful and functional, but also delicates about eat dissipation compared to other PCs, so I wanted to see if there is any solution for getting stressed less.

Apple hardware (just like other PC hardware) has features to avoid over temperature issues causing hardware failure. Every Mac is different but we have almost every iMac model possible at Feral and most of them spend their days at over 80% CPU usage due to game testing or development and I can't think of a single hardware failure directly related to heat issues. In fact hardware failure is amazingly rare.

I'm not saying you should red line the temperatures but I would not be too worried about shorter gaming sessions, we run games on all our hardware for at least 8 hours a day all year without a break

 

[EdwardSmith36]

Stressed less as in what? can you please elaborate your question?

 

[edddeduck]

Stressed less as in what? can you please elaborate your question?

I am pretty sure he means running cooler temps inside the Chassis/HDD/GPU/CPU, iMac's tend to run hotter compared to a well setup gaming Windows tower especially under high load when gaming.

 

[Macintosh1984]

Thanks edddeduck, after your words, I'm more calm!

@EdwardSmith36: edddeduck understood what I meant.

 

[saturnotaku]

You can certainly install programs and games on an external drive if you want (and Steam makes it very easy to do this), but make sure it is a traditional hard drive or solid state disk (SSD). Standard USB thumb drives use memory chips that are not deigned for the rigorous read/write cycles that would come from running programs on them.