Though higher temps will accelerate normal thermal wear and tear. Minis are designed to run at temps up to 100C, regardless of what the fan is doing. Note that Apple don't allow fan speed to be set below a certain value, 1800rpm for the Mini, I think.) Such as Macs Fan Control, which I have installed. (There are 3rd party programs to manage fan speeds to your preference. Those Intels CPUs are temperature throttled at 100C, and Apple's default fan settings don't increase fan speed if your machine is not at (or near) that temp, so the fan will not be running up from its baseline speed until it hits those temps. It is not running up yet because your machine is not getting hot enough to trigger the fan to go faster. That explains why you are not hearing the fan.
Your loaded temps are more like my normal unloaded temps! (Around 60-65C. I then began working on the session and took some further screenshots. The Mac Mini chassis was very cool at this stage.
The Mac Mini had been switched on for around 10 minutes and then I launched an Ableton Live Intro 9 session and left it open but not working on it for around 10 further minutes. These first set of screenshots were taken while what I consider to be in an idle state.To be honest I'm not sure what I should be looking out for so if anyone has any pointers that would be greatly appreciated.
#Apple late 2012 mac mini pro#
I've taken quite a few screenshots of Activity Monitor and Temperature Gauge Pro (Trial Version) in a few different scenarios. I managed to get some time in my home music production studio and did a bit of troubleshooting. I have some screenshots and further information to share, please see my next post for more information if you have time. It is one of the things I love about the Mac Mini! I usually listen to my productions at low to reasonable volume levels and hardly ever hear the fan at all. When producing music I try to do so in 1-2 hour sessions, I do this in order to keep my ears from tiring and this also helps to keep things fresh creatively. This was all done in succession and the Mac mini got very hot then too but I guess it would do working that hard for around 5 hours straight.
#Apple late 2012 mac mini windows#
I have never really noticed the fan noise much, the only time I can really recall hearing it was when I was reinstalling macOS, Windows BootCamp and all of my applications. If anyone could give some input on this issue that would be a great help! I know that there are quite a few threads on this but I couldn’t find a recent one that I could contribute to. My knowledge is very limited and most of which is based on what I can find through google on the subject.
I first noticed this issue about a month after upgrading to macOS Sierra.As this is a US model I replaced the power cable with a Genuine UK Apple Mac Mini cable.The internal fan and other components are very clean.The Mac Mini is in a well ventilated environment.I know that these are quite demanding tasks for the Mac Mini but it has began to get much hotter than it used to do. I use it mainly for Music Production and Graphic Design. My Late 2012 Quad Core i7 Mac Mini has been getting much hotter than it usually does.