with the Mac mini, apple notoriously slows down the real cooling potential of the built in fan because of noise
On my 2009 Mac mini, I used to use a program that allowed me to manually adjust and override the minimum temperature at which the internal fan would kick in as well as the respective speed settings, with respect to the default settings .. I do not remember the name of that little tool but it worked quite well
then, as mentioned above, there is the possibility of adding external cooling solutions
for example, I put my PS4 on a powerful notebook cooling pad with 2 or 3 big fans and leave it on 80% all the time while gaming. It is a good compromise between noise level and cooling efficiency
I would not get a Mac mini to be used under constant full load though. If so, I would want to look into additional cooling options, because - as stated above - there are a lot of components in that tiny enclosure which over time prove to be quite sensitive to heat
On my 2009 Mac mini, I used to use a program that allowed me to manually adjust and override the minimum temperature at which the internal fan would kick in as well as the respective speed settings, with respect to the default settings .. I do not remember the name of that little tool but it worked quite well
then, as mentioned above, there is the possibility of adding external cooling solutions
for example, I put my PS4 on a powerful notebook cooling pad with 2 or 3 big fans and leave it on 80% all the time while gaming. It is a good compromise between noise level and cooling efficiency
I would not get a Mac mini to be used under constant full load though. If so, I would want to look into additional cooling options, because - as stated above - there are a lot of components in that tiny enclosure which over time prove to be quite sensitive to heat