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I have a late 2012 Mac Mini with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5. I’m assuming it’s the original processor. Is it possible to upgrade this processor to something faster?
Your Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB just barely makes the cut for that game.
You would be better off with a machine that has a better graphic chip or one that is upgradable.
What are you running that requires a faster processor than the 2.5 GHz i5...?
Sure you could buy an i7 logic board to put into it, but it would be more cost effective to just sell the i5 and buy an i7.
Not sure what your what your other spec's are...? But IMHO the best performance upgrades that you can do to a 2012 Mac Mini are, swapping out the HDD to an SSD and installing 16GB of RAM.
Just trying to play some Fortnite on it, I upgraded from 4GB to 16GB of Ram before your answer and still don’t see any change on the game performance.
My Mac as it is right now meets and exceeds the minimum requirements to play Fortnite on my Mac.
So currently have 500gb Hardrive with 470gb still available and 16gb of ram. if i have already eliminated the ram issue and saw no changes do you think a SSD would make a difference?
mac minis are as easy / difficult to upgrade as laptops as in memory is often easy if you are tech minded, hard drive too if you are even more so. cpu and gpu not really
the ram replacement was super easy, it was just plug and play. the Hard drive to SSD doesn’t seem hard to do. Just wondering if that’s the only thing left to change to get better performance?
2012 Mac Mini Processor
