If someone there has a stock Intel 1.5ghz Mini, I would be most interested in comparing your readings if you use Temperature Monitor. Mine seem awfully low. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!) For some reason under File, Export Readings is greyed out. If you know why this sometimes occurs, please let me know. It wasn't greyed out before I think.
CPU A heatsink 24/75F
CPU A Temperature Diode 30/86F
CPU Core 1 26/79F
Northbridge Position 1 26/79F
Northbridge Position 2 26/79F
Hard drive 23/73
(Now that its been going for 15 minutes those temps are up a degree or 2 and the hard drive is 31/88F.
I'm copying a bunch of data right now in firewire mode so these temps are actually quite a bit higher than normal. Firewire mode is awesome. Wish I'd used it before. The only complaint is that the target Mini's fan is cranking full blast yet the exhausted air is not even hot. Perhaps the fan controllers have been disabled in firewire mode? Guess I'll have to sleep with earplugs tonight.
I tried moving stuff with an external USB IDE hard drive drive but it seemed so flakey. Sometimes there, sometimes not. I wonder if I was having bad luck or if USB is just not as "there" as firewire. Nothing worse than booting up to...nothing.
IDE jumper settings can drive you crazy. It would be so nice if Cable Select worked all the time.
Ambient temp is about 20C. I'm running a full size Sata hard drive externally with a male/female Sata adapter facilitating it. It would seem simple but it wasn't. The top is off, optical drive is replaced with an external USB DVD burner, and I replaced the plastic housing (with that horrible 2" fan) and am now using a 120mm fan (at 12 volts). Because the fan shape is not designed for the heatsink I was worried but when I touch the CPU heatsink and the other heatsink beside the ram they are very cool. Before, the exhausted air was very warm to hot (running stock). Strangely, they feel cooler to the touch than things in the room...if that makes any sense. The speed of this machine is just great now with 2gbs of ram. I was going to try an OSX86 machine but now I'm thinking, why bother? Once I replace the CPU and overclock it, bump the ram up to 3gb, things should be snappy. I thought I'd replace the stock heatsink with a video card heatpipe monstrosity from Thermaright:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835109136
as only a video card or chipset heatsink cooler would have a small enough surface area to fit on to the Mini's motherboard (logic board in Applespeak). I just have to fashion some clips to hold it in place I guess. Thought I'd add some little heatsinks on the bottom too and do away with the heatpad type cooling underneath the motherboard.
So far this little project is going great. I'll call it the Maxi Mini! Now I can buy a 500 gb drive for about a $100. If Apple adds eSata (with replicator abilities) to the iMacs and Minis and Mac Pro's, that is going to change a lot of things this January. My guess it will only be for the Mac Pro and the others will come in the next year.
CPU A heatsink 24/75F
CPU A Temperature Diode 30/86F
CPU Core 1 26/79F
Northbridge Position 1 26/79F
Northbridge Position 2 26/79F
Hard drive 23/73
(Now that its been going for 15 minutes those temps are up a degree or 2 and the hard drive is 31/88F.
I'm copying a bunch of data right now in firewire mode so these temps are actually quite a bit higher than normal. Firewire mode is awesome. Wish I'd used it before. The only complaint is that the target Mini's fan is cranking full blast yet the exhausted air is not even hot. Perhaps the fan controllers have been disabled in firewire mode? Guess I'll have to sleep with earplugs tonight.
I tried moving stuff with an external USB IDE hard drive drive but it seemed so flakey. Sometimes there, sometimes not. I wonder if I was having bad luck or if USB is just not as "there" as firewire. Nothing worse than booting up to...nothing.
IDE jumper settings can drive you crazy. It would be so nice if Cable Select worked all the time. Ambient temp is about 20C. I'm running a full size Sata hard drive externally with a male/female Sata adapter facilitating it. It would seem simple but it wasn't. The top is off, optical drive is replaced with an external USB DVD burner, and I replaced the plastic housing (with that horrible 2" fan) and am now using a 120mm fan (at 12 volts). Because the fan shape is not designed for the heatsink I was worried but when I touch the CPU heatsink and the other heatsink beside the ram they are very cool. Before, the exhausted air was very warm to hot (running stock). Strangely, they feel cooler to the touch than things in the room...if that makes any sense. The speed of this machine is just great now with 2gbs of ram. I was going to try an OSX86 machine but now I'm thinking, why bother? Once I replace the CPU and overclock it, bump the ram up to 3gb, things should be snappy. I thought I'd replace the stock heatsink with a video card heatpipe monstrosity from Thermaright:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835109136
as only a video card or chipset heatsink cooler would have a small enough surface area to fit on to the Mini's motherboard (logic board in Applespeak). I just have to fashion some clips to hold it in place I guess. Thought I'd add some little heatsinks on the bottom too and do away with the heatpad type cooling underneath the motherboard.
So far this little project is going great. I'll call it the Maxi Mini! Now I can buy a 500 gb drive for about a $100. If Apple adds eSata (with replicator abilities) to the iMacs and Minis and Mac Pro's, that is going to change a lot of things this January. My guess it will only be for the Mac Pro and the others will come in the next year.
