Wii U hacked and CPU clock speed revealed, apparently.

[Kynes]

dahuman said:

Kynes said:

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It's not exactly as snowdog says. It's true that Broadway is an OOE chip, but that alone can't make the difference of one core at 729 MHZ to three cores with two threads each, at 3.2 GHz. You can make a case with Expresso and the X360 CPU, but I still believe X360 is faster at the CPU level due to having much more bruteforce. The sound DSP helps, but sound proccesing doesn't consume all that much cpu cycles on a modern proccesor. That's why dedicated sound chips died on the mainstream pc level more than 10 years ago.

dedicated sound chips still exist... they are just usually on the motherboard now, and most of them sound like shit, it's right now either you go completely digital with toslink on the most common realtek chipset, or get one of the better HT Omega cards for some real good sound.

Most of them are software based, not hardware based. They use the CPU as the number cruncher.