JRPGfan on 19 February 2017
SonytendoAmiibo said:
That long copper pipe you see in these pictures is a passive heat pipe simular to the ones used in the Samsung Galaxy phones. So the Switch has active (fan) and passive (heat pipe) cooling. Nintendo didn't fool around with keeping this system cool. |
But look how tiny those heat-fins at the end of the heatpipe are.
Without the fan, most of that heat will stay inside the console.
Your right though for a system that will probably only use 7-8watts or so when its portable, that heat pipe is probably more than decent enough to cool it.
When its docked it ll probably 15-20watts. And I suspect thats why the cooling unit is the size it is (which again isnt that big).
