Microsoft Ups Xbox One CPU Clock Frequency
Xbox One gets a bit of a speed boost and is now in mass production.
Today we learned that the Xbox One will be in stores by November 22, just in time for the busiest shopping event of the year in the United States. With that date less than a few months away, Microsoft has revealed that the Xbox One is now in mass production – with a little hardware upgrade.
According to comments made by Xbox chief marketing officer Yusef Mehdi at the Citi Global Technology Conference, the final clock frequency of the Xbox One CPU is 1.75 GHz, which is a bump up from the initial 1.6 GHz spec.
This news follows a similar move last month when chief product officer for Xbox Marc Whitten said that the Xbox One's GPU has been officially bumped up from 800 MHz to 853 MHz.
The increases may be modest by enthusiast standards, but for a product that Microsoft intends on shipping millions, it's a pretty strong sign of commitment in pushing performance as far as it can safely go.
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The ring of fire. -
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cus PS4 is going to eat you alive on early sales
lol they wouldnt be upping the speeds to get a boost if they were. the only reason these systems can even play these games is because they are optimized to do so. even then they only run @ 30 fps most likely. hands down consoles will never beat any decent PC head to head.
yea those stupid x clips were garbage barely held the heatsinks on there
It's the percentage of change that's important, not to total mhz when talking about overclocking. I mean saying "150mhz" is nothing would hold true for a CPU with a stock 4ghz rating. But when the starting point is only 1.6ghz... Well it's much more significant.
I see far too many people worrying about it overheating. Both the CPU and GPU overclocks are very small, and the Xbox One has an pretty amazing cooling solution from the pictures I've seen. it looks like a 120mm fan and a heatsink with copper heatpipes, positioned directly beneath the top vent for intake, with the right side vent for exhaust. I get the feeling that the Xbox One will run pretty cool.
I just hope they gave it a beefy heatsink/fan. Or really i dont hope, i dont care one way or the other. But it would be pretty sad if they have another red ring problem. Im sure it cant be as bad as the 360, hardware has become way more efficient since then. And is much better able to handle load/power/thermals.
Will we have a read ring of death repeat? Probably not. Will it be throttling all the time....probably!