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[JordanKZ]

This is one of the most stupid things I've read in a while.

 

[nofi]

Amazing.

 

[Averon]

Next update to double RAM amount and RAM bandwidth?

 

[DBT85]

RAM will be DLC next month too.

 

[wsippel]

The update also download a liquid nitrogen cooler then?

If you make up shit, at least try to stay reasonable...

 

[Durante]

“Espresso” clocked at 1.24 GHz before the 3.0.0 update, 3.24 GHz after the 3.0.0 update

Hahaha. 3.24 Ghz 4 stage CPU. Hohoho.

 

[snoopeasystreet]

I hear the next firmware update is making the controller's touchscreen capacitive.

 

[stryke]

This is very much an insult to the word "rumor".

 

[DonMigs85]

This sounds pretty unlikely for a console.
Unless they were secretly hiding this extra oomph until the next-gen machines came out.

 

[flipswitch]

As bullshit as this story clearly is, the update can at least raise the clock speed a little though, can't it? (though obviously not that much)

After all, I'm pretty sure a PSP update once did that when God Of War was released on it.

That's because the PSP was underclocked to preserve battery life.

 

[orioto]

 

[neoanarch]

Tv Tropes user? serious?

 

[sTeLioSco]

1.24 GHz before the 3.0.0 update, 3.24 GHz after?

its fake....

 

[Mr. Pointy]

LOL

Wii U's all over the world would be popping and fizzing if that were true.


































...The reality is that the CPU clock speed was only bumped to 1.65GHz and the GPU to 625MHz.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

But wouldn't it be hilarious if this were actually true, and Nintendo purposely underclocked the system to a ridiculous extent just so they could drop this bomb when the PS4/Infinity hype was building?

"BOOM, next gen, bitches!"

:loooooooooool

But really, this is dumb.

 

[JaseC]

Articles such as this aren't exactly doing well to fight against the cyncism surrounding the integrity video game journalism.

 

[GhostTrick]

2ghz overclock ? Seems legit.

 

[Dennis]

Nintendo: "Oh we forgot 2 GHz, better patch that in."

 

[stryke]

wow

gaf --> nintendolife --> vg247 --> gaf

origin:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=57304292&postcount=3915

 

[Basil]

Wii U : powered by fanfiction.

 

[KidBeta]

Is 3.24Ghz even a multiple of the base clock of the CPU?.

 

[AOC83]

This is one of the most stupid things I've read in a while.

So it fits right in the WiiU hardware speculation threads.

 

[Replicant]

Is it the water? The air? The trees? Something must have caused the increase in the crazies lately.

 

[Raide]

I guess the thought could be that the system is heavily underclocked, so they can use a bump in speed as a way to not have the gap between 720/PS4 seems like a gigantic chasm.

Or its utter crap.

 

[gundalf]

You can't be serious. How can you even possibly believe that?

EDIT: I'm talking about this part:


This is so clearly false I don't even know where to begin. The Wii U doesn't have the cooling required for 3.24 Ghz is probably the most stand out one. The other being the total madness in increasing the clocks by that much after release.

How is this even a thread...

This depends on the used Core Voltage, it is possible that the WiiU CPU was already running at the for 3.24 GHz required Voltage. An very unlikely scenario but not entirely impossible or far fetched. This would also explain the the WiiU has on IDLE and Last the same power usage.

 

[SneakyStephan]

Nintendo: "Oh we forgot 2 GHz, better patch that in."

They finally found the missing hertzes under a couch cushion and decided to add them.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

The Wii U would literally fry itself after the update is installed.

 

[BY2K]

We're one month away from E3 alright.

This is just pathetic and sad.

 

[Flightmare]

Is 3.24Ghz even a multiple of the base clock of the CPU?.

no

 

[Frankfurter]

I'm pretty sure the CPU used in Wii U can't even possibly be clocked that high, so.... please don't get your hopes up. This is a rumor and most likely just BS.

 

[hEist]

no.
no no no no no.
no.

 

[Cheech]

Hell of an overclock. Unless little red suited plumbers are breaking into homes and putting liquid cooling on Wii Us... And running without a case... And have fans blowing on the system at all times... Which still wouldn't be enough.

That's not to mention what that kind of overclock would do to the RAM, which most assuredly does not have sufficient active cooling either.

This was a pretty good laugh for the AM. Thanks OP.

 

[Evolution_1ne]

There was a secret liquid cooler in the wii u this whole time and none of you bastards knew about it, well played Nintendo well played

Spoiler

you gotta be fucking kidding me, this is a whole new level of desperation

 

[wsippel]

Is 3.24Ghz even a multiple of the base clock of the CPU?.

13 * 248 = 3224
13 * 243 = 3159

Nope.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Next update will add popularity

 

[Frankfurter]

Hell of an overclock. Unless little red suited plumbers are breaking into homes and putting liquid cooling on Wii Us... And running without a case... And have fans blowing on the system at all times... Which still wouldn't be enough.

That's not to mention what that kind of overclock would do to the RAM, which most assuredly does not have sufficient active cooling either.

This was a pretty good laugh for the AM. Thanks OP.

What? RAM doesn't have anything to do with GPU or CPU overclock.

Nintendo must have transferred a whole bunch of extra Pikmin to every Wii U to get those clocks.

Espresso is a NCPPU* confirmed.


* Nintendo Central Pikmin Processing Unit (TM)

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Nintendo must have transferred a whole bunch of extra Pikmin to every Wii U to get those clocks.

 

[-Setsuna-]

So my Wii U turned into a Super Wii U ?

Thanks, Nintendo.

 

[ekim]

Next update will add games

*fixed

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

I could just about understand the OS's RAM reservation being reduced (unless it's set up in a way that makes that impossible), but this is just sillyness.

 

[?oe?oe]

It's code for extra Pikmin.

 

[LeleSocho]

AHAHAHAHAHAH

 

[Truant]

Also from VG247:

Firmware update adds all the games to Wii U.

 

[Loris146]

This is only a Kaiohken time 2. Think at Kaiohken time 20.

 

[Durante]

13 * 248 = 3224
13 * 243 = 3159

Nope.

You don't understand, they increased the base clock to 648 Mhz. What would be the point of just raising the multiplier?

 

[Striek]

VG247's credibility just hit an alltime high for bringing this hot scoop to light.

 

[daxgame]

Can we please add this site to the banned list?
Thanks.

Also I hope the mod will close this.
I mean, there really is nothing to discuss here.

 

[Drencrom]

What trope does this fall under?

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

 

[Nugg]

Hey guys, did you hear? Next patch will add a 500 Gb hard drive for everyone!