![]() I couldn't believe how hot the mini was getting but it never throttled. ![]() When I'd load a full and Vi intense session, the MM would hit temps between 88C and 98C and even hitting 100C during playback. I do some orchestral work so VEP really comes in handy. ![]() I also run PT 2018 and Vienna Ensemble Pro. 5 months ago, Apple introduced the Mac mini 6 core i7, 32 GB ram and after seeing the benchmarks and hearing all the hoopla, I decided to give it a go. I use to own a 2010 Mac Pro 12 core, solid machine, but I thought it was time for a change. It's actually changed the way I work, completely. I'm another happy camper using Turbo Boost Switcher. I know Mojave isn’t “qualified” by avid, so make this move at your own risk. Important to note that I also found slight improvements at lower buffer settings in the latest Mojave update (10.14.4) which specifies “improves performance of audio interfaces” in the notes. I don’t know how I didn’t find that turbo boost switcher app earlier, but having wished I’d found it 5 years ago, I wanted to post about it in the event I can help someone else going mad trying to figure out wth is wrong with their system. I wasn’t imagining.most solid performance I’ve had in awhile. I was even recording audio last night with high latency fx plugs, 2-buss & master channel processing in a 96khz, 32-bit float session with 64 sample buffer with no hiccups - an absolute impossibility a day prior that I was only attempting to figure out if I was just imagining the improvement. I recently discovered that with turbo boost disabled via turbo boost switcher app, I’m now running decent sized sessions (~100 total tracks of VIs, audio & auxes) at 75 degrees C (instead of 95C on the verge of a meltdown), fans just barely ramping up and playback errors have ceased to exist. I run an archaic BLA XB 002 rack on a 6-core 2018 MBP (and a 2011 quad MBP before that), but that interface has caused intermittent errors and excessive heating since PT11 and I’ve worked around it for the love of the sound. I long for the day that arm/Axx arrives on mac, and we can get rid of this intel mess.Anyone on Mac dealing with routine playback errors on PT 2018, even at low cpu demand, if you haven’t tried Turbo Boost Switcher App, it could be life changing as it was for me. The i9 seems to have crazy turboboost properties, and it is indeed interesting if the crappy thermals of turboboost, makes the cost/benefit obviously negative for long running (multi-core) tasks… With turboboost you will see things be done 10-20% faster, however the (thermal) “cost” is imho not worth it - ymmv obviously, and this is only my experience/opinion (on a 2015 i7 macbook pro)… In my experience, cpu will go to 100C under full load with turboboost (fans going full off, everything running hot), and it will stay on 80C under full load without turboboost(fans pretty much at normal). Imho turboboost is great for “normal” users, and great for quickly run benchmark numbers - for us devs (or pro users) that pushes the machine and all cores over longer periods of time, it’s thermal properties are really really bad, and counterproductive on any laptop with it’s limited cooling, and the user preference for the fans not going off at full speed over a simple compile or what not. (you can use to monitor clockspeed/thermals and see how your normal workflow goes with/without turboboost) I can not recommend turboboost switcher enough, and disable turboboost on your macbook I would not mess with the fan controls, the underlying issue lies with turboboost, that by it’s very nature is not really within the thermal envelope of the cpu itself, and much less of any (laptop) cooling solution… Won’t completely fix Apple’s bad cooling design choices, but still, it’s something This should give quite a few more seconds at turbo boost processor clock speeds. Good news, if you need sustained load performance you can tweak the fan behaviour using an app called Macs Fan Control.
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