Ditch iMac Pro for iMac 2019 i9? Noise?

[smirking]

for some reason the sound of my old G5 tower came into my head and was saying WHAT I CANT HEAR YOU if you ever had a silver towered G5 you would know what fan noise can be hahahhahahahah

That is the one thing I don't miss about the old cheese grater that I left behind for a MBP. I made a point of storing it under a desk with an open back desktop enclosure to cut the noise down, but it was still loud.

 

[Wolf1701]

The heatsink does use thermal paste. The earlier poster was talking about TIM which has caused higher temperatures on Intel chips. As for T2 chips there is a lot of information showing that the T2 chip introduces latency when recording. I would look into that if you plan on using it with a DAW.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/08/intel-solder-9900k-i9/

 

[Shivetya]

a bit late to the party, but the i9 has a noisy fan and a very active one at that. even just streaming videos (twitch and such) it can suddenly spin to life as the i9 spikes. playing wow and get lots of activity and fan has hit 2700

 

[smayer97]

Can’t remember the exact sources, but I confirmed through multiple sources that Apple will not let you boot into an Mac OS LOWER than what the Mac ships with. The iMac Pro shipped with High Sierra, and the 2019 iMac shipped with Mohave. You can still boot to an older OS on a 2019 iMac through a virtual machine like Parallels, though, so it can be done.

Yes that is always an option. I was looking for something more concrete for info. Thanks for the reply though.

 

[mmomega]

I will say that just under normal daily usage like watching videos, etc my 2019 i9 8Core is louder than my iMac Pro 18 Core.

Then if I had to make a choice between the two, I would not get rid of my iMac Pro over the i9 iMac any day of the week.

 

[rob97ag]

Removing comments...fan noise not coming from iMac