Xbox Scorpio's Hype Justified by it's Hardware specs

[EricHiggin]

Pemalite said:

EricHiggin said:
Its also a slight letdown, based specifically on the hype and rumors though, not what was actually shown. The 245w PSU is the most impressive to me. Pro is 310w. WOW.

The PSU could be more efficient than Sonys. So they might have been able to get away with a lower wattage unit.

They also mentioned something about specific power regulation on the mobo for each piece of silicon. Still, with the specs of this console, this is really impressive and can't wait to find out more about everything that goes into achieving it.

Pemalite said:

EricHiggin said:
The biggest question I have right now is how large is the overall shell of this thing? Is that outline around the internals supposed to indicate the shell size of the XB1 or the XB1S maybe?

Before the Scorpio details released there was a leak that the console was going to use a "Groundbreaking and new" cooling design. (Which is blatantly false...)

And I stated it's likely using a vapour chamber approach, which I ended up being right about.
Vapour Chambers are amazing at getting a large amount of thermal energy dissipated in a small and confined space, which is why GPU's use it... Microsoft has likely taken that advantage and applied it to the consoles overall form factor.

The original Xbox One had an oversized, over-engineered cooling solution which resulted in a console with a significant amount of height, Vapour Chamber cooling side steps that.

I wasn't aware of vapour chamber tech. Clearly a leap from heat pipes I guess? I'll have to read up on it.