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ethomaz said:

It is possible with firmware updates if the hardware was made to allow this change in the base clock.

But 1.24Ghz to 3.24Ghz is impossible for the CPU... same form the GPU from 500Mhz to 800Mhz.

Nintendo will need a hole new thermal system to reach these clock if the CPU/GPU can reach them.

So FAKE.

I don't think anyone believes the 3.24GHz number, it's just too big a leap.

A more realistic increase it possible, though. Say, 1.6GHz. Maybe 2GHz.



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ethomaz said:

It is possible with firmware updates if the hardware was made to allow this change in the base clock.

But 1.24Ghz to 3.24Ghz is impossible for the CPU... same form the GPU from 500Mhz to 800Mhz.

Nintendo will need a hole new thermal system to reach these clock if the CPU/GPU can reach them.

So FAKE.

maybe they are still doing it, so their  console get a "sky blue" light of death?  And then they will also release and updated console with better cooling, that will be able to handle the heat.   So nintendo gets more sales because people with their old WiiUs will have to buy a new one AND they get better 3rd party support.

XD



Baalzamon said:
IF, and its a big IF, they did this all intentionally just to mess with Sony and Microsoft and truly have people not know the true specs of the already released consoles, it was absolutely genius.

That would suggest further deliberate pain for the Wii U's early quarters (along with them delaying first party software).

The sense of it would not be there at all



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Heavenly_King said:

maybe they are still doing it, so their  console get a "sky blue" light of death?  And then they will also release and updated console with better cooling, that will be able to handle the heat.   So nintendo gets more sales because people with their old WiiUs will have to buy a new one AND they get better 3rd party support.

XD

They did that with DS or 3DS if I remember... the specs (CPU, GPU, clock, etc) are different for each model.



Nintendo has obviously discovered the secret of cold fusion and just isn't telling anybody about it. The Wii U came pre-equipped with the technology and nobody even noticed. All they had to do was switch it on with a firmware update.

It explains everything. The increased power consumption and cooling requirements are both solved by this simple answer. As an internet source there is no chance whatsoever that this is wrong. Where there's smoke there's always fire. Or in this case, cold fusion.



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ethomaz said:

Heavenly_King said:

maybe they are still doing it, so their  console get a "sky blue" light of death?  And then they will also release and updated console with better cooling, that will be able to handle the heat.   So nintendo gets more sales because people with their old WiiUs will have to buy a new one AND they get better 3rd party support.

XD

They did that with DS or 3DS if I remember... the specs (CPU, GPU, clock, etc) are different for each model.

I did not know that, so it is possible? mmmm.  And I thought my comment would be a nice joke lol.   So it is something similar with iPAD4/4s/4g/etc.  



ethomaz said:

It is possible with firmware updates if the hardware was made to allow this change in the base clock.

But 1.24Ghz to 3.24Ghz is impossible for the CPU... same form the GPU from 500Mhz to 800Mhz.

Nintendo will need a hole new thermal system to reach these clock if the CPU/GPU can reach them.

So FAKE.


It's almost definitely not true, but not for the reasons you have given.

It's entirely possible for a CPU to run at speeds 3x less than it's supposed to run at (My desktop i7 is currently running at about 800Mhz and can run at any speed within a multiplier times the FSB...

Same for GPU, you can clock a desktop GPU at any frequency you like in software. So it's entirely possible theoretically...which doesn't make this actually true at all but your comment is incorrect.



Heavenly_King said:

I did not know that, so it is possible? mmmm.  And I thought my comment would be a nice joke lol.   So it is something similar with iPAD4/4s/4g/etc.

The DS have two versions os hardware... one with "ARM9@133MHz and ARM7@33MHz" and another with "ARM946E-S@67 MHz and ARM7TDMI@33MHz".

I read about 3DS uses differente CPU and clock for the same system... it is like the Galaxy S3 that uses a Dual-core CPU in EU and a Quad-core CPU in US.



fillet said:

It's almost definitely not true, but not for the reasons you have given.

It's entirely possible for a CPU to run at speeds 3x less than it's supposed to run at (My desktop i7 is currently running at about 800Mhz and can run at any speed within a multiplier times the FSB...

Same for GPU, you can clock a desktop GPU at any frequency you like in software. So it's entirely possible theoretically...which doesn't make this actually true at all but your comment is incorrect.

No. It is impossible.

Nintendo will need to make a new thermal system to make these big increase... the actual thermal system in Wii U can't hold cool the CPU/GPU with these clock.

And I'm not going into the FACT the IBM PowerPC 750 architecture can't go over 2Ghz of clock speed.



ethomaz said:

Heavenly_King said:

I did not know that, so it is possible? mmmm.  And I thought my comment would be a nice joke lol.   So it is something similar with iPAD4/4s/4g/etc.

The DS have two versions os hardware... one with "ARM9@133MHz and ARM7@33MHz" and another with "ARM946E-S@67 MHz and ARM7TDMI@33MHz".

I read about 3DS uses differente CPU and clock for the same system... it is like the Galaxy S3 that uses a Dual-core CPU in EU and a Quad-core CPU in US.

 

The 3ds had better hardware, yes, but games didn't make any use of it so they would still be compatible to the original ds. Even PS2 had different hardware revisions.