The chip swap will lower power consumption from 200 Watts to a more reasonable 135 Watts and the new PS3 will have a motherboard revision including an update of Southbridge. The internal heatpipe has also been reduced in size thanks to the cooler running processor.
Although overheating has not really been an issue for the PS3 as compared to the rival Xbox 360, the new processor should help cut manufacturing costs.
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Dailytech
Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 30 Oct 2007 16:38