That's why Noctua makes different models. I chose the model best suited for an unimpeded environment.

Hey. Only my wife or mom get to call me an idiot! :)

The reference was to a prostitute working hard to avoid the ire of her pimp, in this case Wayne Brady from the now infamous Chapelle's Show sketch.

Well, maybe your Macs don't do those things, but as you said, you produce music, not video. I'm specifically referring to GPU processing, so unless the music software utilizes the Leopard+ OpenCL APIs, your GPUs probably aren't hit that often. Aperture does, however, and just photo editing for me (when I edit the pictures I take in RAW format) is fairly fan intensive.

This. I already have the solution for movies and TV shows. I have a Synology 1511+ with 12 TB in conjunction with a Boxee box that does what I need for media. I'd like to achieve the same for games. Adam gets it. It's aesthetically pleasing to have one system, the wife doesn't mind, and it's just neat to be able to switch between games at will.

I was born in 80, so nostalgia for me is the NES, SNES, Genesis, and GBA. However, I've recently discovered Dolphin so I've been enjoying some GC games (LOVE WindWaker) in 1080p. I probably would have to sacrifice the Dolphin emulation, but I would really love to gut an old Gamecube or NES and create a nice little emulation station in its shell for the aforementioned (less Dolphin) systems...

That's why I went with the 120mm Noctua fans for my media center. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2041483608086.109253.1574203932&l=b86a32bbdd&type=1. They are very, very quiet.

Too cool for school. You know it! :)

That's interesting. When using makemkv or mkvtoolnix my Mac mini (was about 5 feet from me in my office closet) was spinning up like it was a race. The same goes for my Mac book Pro when I use Aperture. I've noticed that doing *anything* with Macs and graphics cause their fans to work like Wayne Brady is threatening to choke a bitch.

Thanks! I was looking at the Zotac solutions on NewEgg in fact.

http://files.lostcreations.com/bluray.JPG

I like BSNES, or more specifically, I like OpenEMU on my Mac. However, the new system will likely run Windows since it runs everything. Maybe Ubuntu or OpenSUSE, we'll see.

I used the external LG Super MultiBlu drive in combination with makemkv and mkvtoolnix (for muxing the PSG subtitles back in).

Exactly. I've already looked at possible options, especially around PSU configurations since that is where a lot of the heat is generated. I posed the question to /. because of the discussion it might generate. I know that comes with a certain asshole quotient, but I'm willing to put up with you young whippersnappers (I'm 31 -- ancient) in hope of some interesting responses.

Macs in general (including my 2011 Macbook Pro) spin up like crazy when doing anything with their graphics cards. The Mac mini is no exception. When using the Dolphin emulator to run Wii and Gamecube games at 1080p the Mac mini's fans go into hyper active, ludicrous speed. I don't turn them down because I know that they're on for a reason.

I even wrote a security practical for SANS on sudowin (http://bit.ly/4b3Ohb) and how I achieved the program on Windows. Microsoft's filed patent directly apes how I created sudo for Windows.