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Apple Introduces New MacBook Air and Mac Mini

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Thank you I went with this eGPU enclosure instead of the razer core that was my 1st choice but this one support a sata sad inside the enclosure, also have gigabyte ethernet and can charge the new MacBook Pro for only $50 more than the razer and it comes in space gray as the Mac mini.

also I mention NVIDIA not only because they are my preference but because I actually have 1 1080ti that I only use for 2 month before I pull it out of my gaming pc, it would have been great been able to use that. But that's A sacrifice to be able to run MacOs as primary OS.

I just connected a SATA SSD to my Mantiz and noticed the Mantiz controller is actually USB (via a bridge) not native SATA. The problem with that is you can't enable TRIM support. I put a SATA adapter in the Mantiz PCIe slot and now TRIM is supported - but obviously you can't also use a GPU with that configuration.
 
But I don't think that we will be putting our chips to that level of stress those are synthetic bench marks which I think sometime are overkill for real time usage

In the video the thermal throttling was caused by simply exporting a video in FCP X or Premiere Pro. He didn't run any benchmarks to cause this.
 
In the video the thermal throttling was caused by simply exporting a video in FCP X or Premiere Pro. He didn't run any benchmarks to cause this.
You are right but that was until he changed the thermal paste "I'm not defending apple for not using a good one". Like I said let see I still have my Mac mini in it's box with plastic wrap, don't want to use it until I get everything. LOL
 
You are right but that was until he changed the thermal paste "I'm not defending apple for not using a good one". Like I said let see
With the new Thermal Paste it was still hitting 90C quite easily and that was with a 4 core i3. I would never want to run my 6 core i7-8700 in a mini at those temperatures as it would shorten the life of the CPU quite dramatically. It's simply a compromise you have to accept with the closed off, low airflow mini case. It looks beautiful and elegant but it's not practical for heavy use professional work.
 
With the new Thermal Paste it was still hitting 90C quite easily and that was with a 4 core i3. I would never want to run my 6 core i7-8700 in a mini at those temperatures as it would shorten the life of the CPU quite dramatically. It's simply a compromise you have to accept with the closed off, low airflow mini case. It looks beautiful and elegant but it's not practical for heavy use professional work.

Agree.
 
I just connected a SATA SSD to my Mantiz and noticed the Mantiz controller is actually USB (via a bridge) not native SATA. The problem with that is you can't enable TRIM support. I put a SATA adapter in the Mantiz PCIe slot and now TRIM is supported - but obviously you can't also use a GPU with that configuration.
I wish I had known that would had go with the razer core x instead, well better research next time lesson learned.
 
I wish I had known that would had go with the razer core x instead, well better research next time lesson learned.

So far I'm thinking most of the external SSDs are useless because they are USB (no TRIM). I also don't really like the TB3 SSDs (e.g. Samsung X5), because they're hot and can't be upgraded. An M.2 to TB3 bridge is $170 and so it seems the best approach is to just buy a second TB3 enclosure (e.g. $200 Akitio node lite or a second Razer Core X) for the external SSD - which is what I've now done. This will keep the SSD cool and allow TRIM support.

Edit: My second Razer Core X arrived today. It was sold out everywhere but Razer.com had them in stock. My external SSD is hitting full speed. Having a Mac mini with two TB3 enclosures is fairly silly, but it definitely works really well. The Samsung X5 is basically the same thing with a 970 EVO inside.
 
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