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endimion on 15 August 2013
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Zappykins said:
Pemalite said:
 

Bing! Nailed it.
x86 CPU's (And thus by extension, APU's) have had Thermal protection mechanisms for years, thus it will be highly likely that the same functionality is going to be in the Playstation 4 too as it's implemented at the silicon level on pretty much every single x86 chip today.

However, it should only be in extreme cases that it should happen for any machine. For example: Fans fail or 70'C ambient temperatures due to being stuck in a cupboard and having the console full of dust. (AMD generally recommends 61'C as the thermal limit for it's CPU's as stated in it's whitepapers, although will function fine with higher than that.)

Wow, that is pretty hot.  (61° Celsius = 141.8° Fahrenheit)

I'm glad they are designing the system with these safeguards.  I know the 360 could do some things like turn off a CPU or two if not needed, but this sounds like it expands on that.

Never under estimate errors by their customers.  Especially for people like my Mom who will accidentally leave a book covering the big vent on my 360 sometimes.

Hopefully the PS4 will have something like this too.  Nobody wants their console breaking.


Lol I had way worst back in the days.... I had an old computer I built.... it was end of life.... the CPU would get to 90C=194F on a regular basis and even over..... I had to keep the ultra tower completely open and I had 2 industrial fans on each side the size of the tower to create a strong air flow.... LOL

those were my uber nerds days :D

the XB1 will not have any issues with heat and will never shut down unless you rap it in a towel or put it in a very small closed TV stand.... heck even the last one didn't over heat the component.... nothing in the core hardware ever failed due to heat.... the soldering work was shit and the component got displaced.... so unless they fuck the soldering again I have no worries that the XB will be quiet and run smooth 100% of the time under normal use (yeah if you are in the middle of the jungle on a really scoarching hot day with 95% humidity it might have issues, and even then I could take the bet because when you see under how much constrain they put the surface tablet in their lab, I'm sure they pushed the One far enough to handle that too)