The trick is to eliminate the loading bottlenecks that you can SAFELY eliminate. If you really want faster try putting a solid state drive in your computer and use it for the system and programs, and use a regular drive for documents and work products.
#Mac mini 2011 i7 full
More ram = more full speed loading in that case. If you have more ram, during a real job that could use it all, it would be possible to load "the entire plate" at the speed of the ram as needed, versus, the speed of the hard drive which is a lot slower. The data is "poured through a funnel into a straw", the system bus, and it's speed determines how fast that will drop onto "the spoon", the L1 and L2 caches. It just loads data as fast as the ram can load and only as fast as the CPU can eat what's loaded. The ram has a speed, but, it can't exceed the speed of the CPU no matter how much ram you have in it,Īnd it won't make the CPU faster than it is, Think of it as the fork, spoon that loads the data from ram to CPU, it only loads bites as fast as and as big as your processor can actually eat. You can only benefit from one thats the size you CPU can bite. What you're describing is the ability to use an L1 and L2 cache memory.
Thats why i am very interested in seeing what a MMS with its quad-core i7 CPU can do with 16GB of RAM. So if that apparently correct analogy is accurate, then if ones CPU is unable to eat more in real-time than what is on the plate (RAM) there is no point getting a bigger plate (more RAM).
The more powerful the CPU the more it can eat (number crunch) in real time from that plate. Imagine RAM as a plate, the more RAM, the bigger the plate. I am new to understanding the inter-relationship between RAM and the CPU.Īccording to experts in a thread in which i put forward an analogy about that relationship, i have the understanding correct.
#Mac mini 2011 i7 pro
What I don't know, of course, is wether iStat pro reads out the temeperature of this new machine correctly.As far as i am aware, it would be testing CPU and RAM, as the CPU processes what is available in the RAM. But I'm a little worried that CPU temperatures of 90C might be too stressful for the mainboard or the CPU itself. All in all the mini runs much cooler on the outside than my older iMac 24 Core2Duo. The outer hull of the mini doesn't get overly warm and the other parts of the machine neither. What I didn't expect are the CPU temperatures that come with this: I use iStat pro for reading out the temperatures and found that the fan starts its highest level only when the CPU temperature reaches 90C! It then brings down the CPU to about 82-83C and switches back to a medium level of course it comes back on loudly later when the CPU gets hotter again.
In fact it does so very well and of course it gets louder in this process with the fan going from as-good-as-silent to high over some steps - all totally expectable. The machine should easily be able to cope with SL. There is only one question that makes me wonder: I'm no real gamer, but I love Second Life, a virtual reality "game" that uses OpenGL. Wonderful little machine, powerful yet extremely silent. I got myself a brand new Mini 2011 in the i7 2.7GHz BTO version with the AMD Radeon 6630M.
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