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Old 01-26-2022, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by keith.rogers View Post
I got a refurb from Apple, but it's a '17 model. Very quiet.

Memory and disks add heat to the internals, and heat is what triggers the fans, obviously. If you're only doing audio, you don't need much memory, and even HD video gets by on relatively little. (What you can use with video is lots of cores and threads - also heat producers! But, 4k probably demands more - someday I'll find out if 64GB is enough.)
Yours being quiet not surprising as I understand it from the Gen 7 chips (start of 2017) onward to now Gen 10 ... intel chips ran progressively hotter and thus progressively noisier fan noise
Getting Turbo Boost switcher to disable turbo boost helps but can still be audible more so on video editing but also audio as well the longer you are recording .. Just thought people should be aware of what they might be getting into ......
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