PS4 heat dissipation

**Vuk** · 08-10-2013, 19:01

There are little gnomes with bags full of ice cubes to run around and cool the components.

**Furunculus** · 08-10-2013, 23:24

the single most power consuming component, the APU that contains the eight CPU cores and 1152 GPU shaders, is manufavured at .28u, whereas the previous gen began life at .90u.

you can get a much greater transistor density, and frequency, in the same thermal budget.

**Fragony** · 08-11-2013, 08:37

There aren't any moving parts as I understand, so it shouldn't heat up all that much. I don't get the how&why but we will see when we see it.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 08-11-2013, 15:32

Originally Posted by Fragony

There aren't any moving parts as I understand, so it shouldn't heat up all that much. I don't get the how&why but we will see when we see it.

There aren't any moving parts in your average electric kettle either...

**Fragony** · 08-11-2013, 15:40

Ya, that is why I don't get it. The machine is reported to be very quiet, hardly audible. No idea how they pulled that of given the raw power of it's hardware.

Even bigger mystery, as for now only 4 gb ram can be used, what's up with the other 4.

**Veho Nex** · 08-11-2013, 17:16

It could have one of those water cooling systems that doesnt need to be cleaned and stuff. My brother has on in his computer and it does a great job of keeping the temp down.

**Papewaio** · 08-15-2013, 10:08

A bar heater has 'no moving parts' but it still heats up.

Electrons as they move through most materials heat them up. Because in reality the electrons/electrical field is moving.

Heat is the atoms moving around. So pushing an electric-magnetic field through metal causes the atoms to move around. Yes you get a current flow, but you also get heat build up.