Celcius
°Temp. member
No seriously, hear me out.
I don't think we'll get "Pro" consoles this gen but someone at work was asking me about it. They said to imagine if we had the power of a 3080 in a console and then I said yeah but imagine all of that heat. But then this got me thinking... chips are just getting hotter and more power hungry as time goes on. I feel like the PS5 and the xbox series X are already doing what they can to keep things cool and quiet. If you were to double the power for a $899 Pro console, how do you improve cooling capabilities without sounding like a jet or being massive in size? Water cooling.
Do you think we'll get to the point (whether it's Pro consoles or even the next generation) where consoles utilize AIO (All-In-One) water cooling in order to keep things cool?
Some may say water cooling is too risky for the mass market but AIO's have been super common in the PC building community for years now and are far less risky than custom water cooling.
I remember when we had 5400 rpm hard drives forever and SSD's were considered too expensive, and now we've got pcie 4.0 nvme lightning fast ssd's, so anything is possible over time. Moving towards an all-digital future (meaning, ditching the disk drive) would help free up space on the insides as well for a radiator and tubing.
I don't think we'll get "Pro" consoles this gen but someone at work was asking me about it. They said to imagine if we had the power of a 3080 in a console and then I said yeah but imagine all of that heat. But then this got me thinking... chips are just getting hotter and more power hungry as time goes on. I feel like the PS5 and the xbox series X are already doing what they can to keep things cool and quiet. If you were to double the power for a $899 Pro console, how do you improve cooling capabilities without sounding like a jet or being massive in size? Water cooling.
Do you think we'll get to the point (whether it's Pro consoles or even the next generation) where consoles utilize AIO (All-In-One) water cooling in order to keep things cool?
Some may say water cooling is too risky for the mass market but AIO's have been super common in the PC building community for years now and are far less risky than custom water cooling.
I remember when we had 5400 rpm hard drives forever and SSD's were considered too expensive, and now we've got pcie 4.0 nvme lightning fast ssd's, so anything is possible over time. Moving towards an all-digital future (meaning, ditching the disk drive) would help free up space on the insides as well for a radiator and tubing.