| greenmedic88 said: As for the upclock on the GPU; yes, it will require more power and will generate more heat, but I'm pretty sure it will be well within the design operating specs. Keep in mind the XB1 box and its cooling system were designed to avoid RRoD type failures. The box itself is larger and I'm sure a great deal of thought went into keeping airflow and heat management at reliable levels. |
The increase in power and heat would be insignificant, GCN scales in clockspeed very well, topping out at around 1ghz-1.2ghz.
Besides increasing clock speed by 6.6% isn't going to cause a linear increase in heat and power consumption, that occurs with voltage not clockspeed increases.
Not only that, but when you are building a system such as this, you should always over engineer everything (And we must assume, Microsoft has learn't from the past and thus has.) from the voltage regulation to the heat management, everything. - It's so that it can withstand a worse-case scenario.
For example: Being stuck in a cupboard on a 38'C day, the cooling needs to keep up.
Or: Taking into account capacitor aging of the Power Supply over a 10 year period which reduces it's efficiency and maximum wattage, that kind of thing.
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