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The article repeatedly describes clock frequencies that drift further out of spec as the systems age. That's failing hardware.
by wtallis 2y ago
The article repeatedly describes clock frequencies that drift further out of spec as the systems age. That's failing hardware.
- NobodyNada 2y agoThe clock frequencies are not "out of spec" -- the manufacturing tolerance is 32,000 +/- 0.5%, and virtually all the measured consoles are well within that range. The manufacturer additionally specifies a maximum of 0.3% variation due to temperature and 0.2% due to aging. There's also no evidence that the clocks are drifting further due to age. We don't have data for what APU frequencies used to be; we have a single measurement from over 20 years ago suggesting that one particular console had a DSP sample rate of 32,040 Hz, which is slightly lower than the current measured average of 32,075 but still well within the range of consoles we've looked at today.