News Nintendo Switch 2 gets disassembled — Nvidia chip gets its close-up

[Admin]

A YouTuber tore down the Nintendo Switch 2, showing off the new Nvidia chip.

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[Notton]

...may void your warranty...

You'll have to look up your local laws, but in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 allows the user to open up the device and attempt reasonable repairs themselves and the device will still be covered under warranty. The onus is on the manufacturer to prove that you caused the damage.
AFAIK, Canada has a similar law. IDK about other countries.

 

[John Nemesh]

You'll have to look up your local laws, but in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 allows the user to open up the device and attempt reasonable repairs themselves and the device will still be covered under warranty. The onus is on the manufacturer to prove that you caused the damage.
AFAIK, Canada has a similar law. IDK about other countries.

I was JUST gonna say...lets see how this plays out in the courts after Nintendo oversteps it's legal limitations...and you KNOW they will!

 

[hotaru251]

Nintendo may "render... the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.

it'll be same way they deal with ds, 3ds, switch...
they'll disable online functions becasue that is ALL they can do.
Consumer rights in most of world would have a field day if they actually tried to make your switch 2 unusable at all...That exact reason is WHY they didn't brick your ds/3ds/switch 1 & just banned it from nintendo servers...because again that is ALL they can do in msot of world.

 

[S58_is_the_goat]

You'll have to look up your local laws, but in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 allows the user to open up the device and attempt reasonable repairs themselves and the device will still be covered under warranty. The onus is on the manufacturer to prove that you caused the damage.
AFAIK, Canada has a similar law. IDK about other countries.

Problem with this law is that you need to sue them first, how many people will do that? Zero.

 

[Air2004]

Problem with this law is that you need to sue them first, how many people will do that? Zero.

If you haveva valid claim, any class action law firm will take the case on a contingency.

 

[hotaru251]

Problem with this law is that you need to sue them first, how many people will do that? Zero.

thats why class actions exist.
law groups sue them for the bunch of little people who normally couldnt.

 

[John Nemesh]

thats why class actions exist.
law groups sue them for the bunch of little people who normally couldnt.

Problem is, unless you send them a written letter within 30 days of purchase, you CANT sue them in a class action lawsuit! Read their horrible EULA:

https://en-americas-support.nintend...8586/~/nintendo-switch 2:-user-agreement

 

[abufrejoval]

You'll have to look up your local laws, but in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 allows the user to open up the device and attempt reasonable repairs themselves and the device will still be covered under warranty. The onus is on the manufacturer to prove that you caused the damage.
AFAIK, Canada has a similar law. IDK about other countries.

Contract clauses like that would be null and void in Germany and likely most of the EU, but by the time you won the court case, that switch has long since been thermally recycled.

Unfortunately the best law is of little use, when big money can slow things down to the point where it no longer matters.

 

[abufrejoval]

What I found most intersting is just how little CPU performance mattered for game play in his review.

It reminds me of some experimentation I did with a 22-core Broadwell Xeon a few months ago, using a mix of GPUs including some more modern ones with games that were evidently designed to scale with cores now.

Some are still rather hopeless, Microsoft's flight simulator 2020 and 2024 among them, which simply require one really fast core to perform on my 4k screens.

But other did really well at 4k, spreading the game load rather evenly across the 22 cores and running really well at rather low overall load below 20%: perhaps the 55MB 3rd level cache in that CPU don't hurt either.

It shows that yes, it might take a 9800X3D for top scores on synthetic benchmarks, but way slower CPUs aren't doing terribly, when the GPU is beefy enough.

I'm not touching my RTX 4090 unless I have to, but only the B580 wasn't doing so great, because BAR resize isn't supported by the Xeon's BIOS.

RTX 3070, GTX 980ti/1080ti and RTX 2080ti weren't doing half bad on all Tomb Raiders, Far Crys, Doom, Thief, even Hogward's Legacy was ok, I believe. And Cyberpunk will adjust to practically everything, somehow.

For a while there was a lot of X99 chipset mainboards in China (still sold on Aliexpress) which evidently were recycled C612 from server mainboards and run with 6-18/22 core Xeons Haswell or Broadwell and quad channel DDR4-2400 or also overclocked. Those make for quite reasonable gaming rigs, when your game has been adapted to multi-core consoles, because those sport CPUs that are quite a bit weaker.

It's hard to argue for such a rig these days, because fast and more modern 6 and 8 cores will also do. But if you happen to get one for dirt cheap or free, you may want to give it a spin: you may be surprised, quad channel DRAM and plenty of I/O are a nice bonus.