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How hot is the Switch now?

SUPERHOT! 48 34.78%
 
Warm~ 18 13.04%
 
Adequate- 35 25.36%
 
Cold as ice\ 30 21.74%
 
See results. 7 5.07%
 
Total:138
Barkley on 09 February 2017
Miyamotoo said:
No one from people who actually tried Switch and having and using it hand, did not mention at all that Switch is hot. So if Switch relay is hot, we would know by now.

I mean... we have temperatures in the OP, so we don't really need to settle for people saying "It's hot." or "It's not."



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Miyamotoo on 09 February 2017
Barkley said:
Miyamotoo said:
No one from people who actually tried Switch and having and using it hand, did not mention at all that Switch is hot. So if Switch relay is hot, we would know by now.

I mean... we have temperatures in the OP, so we don't really need to settle for people saying "It's hot." or "It's not."

True, in any case 37c is not hot at all for handheld, phones goes much higher with temps.



Barkley on 09 February 2017
Miyamotoo said:
Barkley said:

I mean... we have temperatures in the OP, so we don't really need to settle for people saying "It's hot." or "It's not."

True, in any case 37c is not hot at all for handheld, phones goes much higher with temps.

Yeah my phone gets quite hot when playing a game, I don't know the exact temperature but it's probably a little over 37c. It's not really an issue unless it has any negative side-affects with continuous use.



TomaTito on 09 February 2017
OdinHades said:
I could cook an egg on my Galaxy S6 Edge when it's under heavy load. 37 °C are totally fine.

Checked your phone, under load goes up to 39deg

The surface temperatures of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge are really low while idling and only reach up to 29.3 °C at some spots at the front. The back is even cooler with only 28 °C in the same scenario. The temperatures will increase under maximum load and we were able to measure up to 38.9 °C, which is not a very high value. Both the HTC One M9 (up to 38.4 °C) and the Ascend P7 (up to 37.9 °C) are even slightly cooler, but all the other rivals are noticeably warmer and surpass the 40 °C mark. We can measure the highest temperature in our comparison for the Nokia Lumia 930 (up to 48.4 °C).

The temperatures are not that cool inside the chassis. Shorts load periods are no problem for the SoC, but that changes under sustained load. We checked that with the battery tests of GFXBench 3.0 and 3.1. They run the T-Rex test thirty times in a row and log the battery capacity as well as the frame rates. The performance drops by around 25 percent during the eighth run and by 50 percent compared to the original performance in run number 22. This can results in dropped frames when you play games for a while, since we can only see half of the original 53 fps in the Offscreen test. The diagrams of GFXBench 3.1 clearly show that the clock of the GPU is below its nominal value for a longer period and the CPU cores are running at low frequencies in the last third of the test as well.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Edge-Smartphone-Review.140746.0.html



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OdinHades on 09 February 2017
TomaTito said:
OdinHades said:
I could cook an egg on my Galaxy S6 Edge when it's under heavy load. 37 °C are totally fine.

Checked your phone, under load goes up to 39deg

The surface temperatures of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge are really low while idling and only reach up to 29.3 °C at some spots at the front. The back is even cooler with only 28 °C in the same scenario. The temperatures will increase under maximum load and we were able to measure up to 38.9 °C, which is not a very high value. Both the HTC One M9 (up to 38.4 °C) and the Ascend P7 (up to 37.9 °C) are even slightly cooler, but all the other rivals are noticeably warmer and surpass the 40 °C mark. We can measure the highest temperature in our comparison for the Nokia Lumia 930 (up to 48.4 °C).

The temperatures are not that cool inside the chassis. Shorts load periods are no problem for the SoC, but that changes under sustained load. We checked that with the battery tests of GFXBench 3.0 and 3.1. They run the T-Rex test thirty times in a row and log the battery capacity as well as the frame rates. The performance drops by around 25 percent during the eighth run and by 50 percent compared to the original performance in run number 22. This can results in dropped frames when you play games for a while, since we can only see half of the original 53 fps in the Offscreen test. The diagrams of GFXBench 3.1 clearly show that the clock of the GPU is below its nominal value for a longer period and the CPU cores are running at low frequencies in the last third of the test as well.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Edge-Smartphone-Review.140746.0.html

How can I measure the temperature? Because I'm pretty sure that thing gets higher, especially when using it in the Gear VR. The thing gets so hot sometimes in VR that I can barely touch it anymore and I really doubt that that's the case with only 39 °C. Not saying the review is wrong or anything, but we all know how very much Samsung smartphones can differ in single cases. For instance, my european model has another SoC than the American one and so on. So, do I need some kind of special thermometer or something?



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TomaTito on 09 February 2017
Miyamotoo said:
No one from people who actually tried Switch and having and using it hand, did not mention at all that Switch is hot. So if Switch relay is hot, we would know by now.

It's in the OP, but I did change the thread from "How HOT is the Switch?" to the current clickbait "Is the Switch too hot?" xD
Maybe I should change it to a neutral "Switch is cool"

OdinHades said:

How can I measure the temperature? Because I'm pretty sure that thing gets higher, especially when using it in the Gear VR. The thing gets so hot sometimes in VR that I can barely touch it anymore and I really doubt that that's the case with only 39 °C. Not saying the review is wrong or anything, but we all know how very much Samsung smartphones can differ in single cases. For instance, my european model has another SoC than the American one and so on. So, do I need some kind of special thermometer or something?

You need a flir camera or a surface thermometer, still the phone could get hot in VR since the headset can prevent its thermals.
Be sure to VR without the back cover.



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TheAkutsu on 09 February 2017

37 ? like a human's body temperature in good condition



caffeinade on 09 February 2017

I wonder how hot the SOC is, measuring the system externally is not accurate (especially reflective materials).



Eagle367 on 10 February 2017
TomaTito said:
Eagle367 said:
It's not the temperature that's really the bothersome bit, it's how it is conducted. For example plastic and aluminium at the same temperature but aluminium feels colder. It's about how the switch's externals conduct heat. If it all goes through the fan then it shouldn't bother at uch and it might even feel cool but otherwise it might cause slight discomfort

Do we know the material they are using for the console body?
The Shield tablet linked above uses an aluminium chasis but also has a soft-touch coat finish.

Barkley said:
As long as it doesn't affect performance, cause safety shutdowns, or cause system failures after multiple months/years.

It's fine.

Depends how much dust you push through the vents xD

I don't think we know the material man



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