So it sounds like most of the big questions remain unanswered =p cool to see the pics though, very interesting!

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So this little thing makes it possible to plays games like Breath of the Wild... mind blown.

That much?! Wow.

Thanks for your answer.

Nothing until we get some x-ray pics.

Well, the RAM is also being cooled by the fan. It must be clocked higher than the usual phone.

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.

Pretty sure the rumored 25 GB/S will turn out to be true.

If you mean if it has any ESRAM like the xbox one does to help off set its low memory bandwidth? maybe, that might just be what nitnendo did to custumise the chip.

Again, same as above. Rumor of 4 GB will most likely prove true.

Those 2 memory chips are probably 2 x 2GB.

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).

Looks a lot like a Nvidia Shield console with unneccessary open space squeezed in. 

Basically they replaced that hard drive slot in the Shield console (the black square) for the battery in the Switch. 

I'm talking about the L1 and L2 cache, not anything like the eDRAM or eSRAM. I'm going to wait for the teardown and scans to figure out the memory controller part, gotta wait for that one lol.