Nintendo Switch Teardown

Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by samtoday on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:13PM (#13789214)

Wow, the Nintendo Switch has a fan? It is amazing how thermals are such a limiting factor in today's devices. I remember that a browser dev increased the Nexus 5's benchmark score drastically by placing it on a bag of ice.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by ndesaulniers on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:41PM (#13789312)

> I remember that a browser dev increased the Nexus 5's benchmark score drastically by placing it on a bag of ice.

If the browser was stressing the system to the limits of the thermal envelope, then by being able to dissapate heat faster, you can schedule more work to be done delaying any kind of frequency governing.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by funkedelic_bob on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:58PM (#13789366)

That's crazy. I wonder if I can increase my output from my laptop working in front of an open freezer :P

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Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by kalleboo on Saturday March 04, 2017 @12:26AM (#13789454)

You can use Intel's power gadget to see the status of your CPU's temperature, power usage and clock frequency (i.e. if it's boosting, or if it's being throttled) https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget...

e.g., if I start an h264 encode, first my CPU boosts, reaching 3.3 GHz (it's a 2.7 GHz i7), but after a minute, it's dropped to 2.4 GHz due to the thermals. Wouldn't surprise me if I stuck it in a freezer it would stay at a higher frequency.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by randomdestructn on Saturday March 04, 2017 @12:06PM (#13791752)

Depending on laptop, quite possibly.

If it's thermal throttling, then cooling is going to help.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/06/if-you-water-cool-the-new...

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Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by on_and_off on Saturday March 04, 2017 @02:11AM (#13789751)

During the heat wave last summer, my mac book pro became very noticeably slower.

Heat dissipation is a real issue for many devices.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by barrkel on Saturday March 04, 2017 @06:06AM (#13790358)

When we switched to laptops from desktops at work, a full build including tests took quite a bit longer and a lot more variable in time; thermal limiting appeared to be the reason for the variance.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Teardown by simonh on Saturday March 04, 2017 @06:07AM (#13790361)

You can get laptop trays that are supposed to improve heat dissipation.

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