News SNES consoles appear to run faster with age — APU frequency increased by up to 182 Hz after 35 years

[Admin]

SNES consoles appear to run faster as they age, thanks to the SPC700 sound chip.

SNES consoles appear to run faster with age — APU frequency increased by up to 182 Hz after 35 years : Read more

 

[Konomi]

Time-based overclocking. Maybe AMD should learn from this.

 

[Sippincider]

Ah it's the audio chip that's running faster. Was hoping it was that 65C816!

 

[Notton]

From what I read, a ceramic resonator will go out of tolerance as they age.
For a quartz based ceramic resonator, it is 0.001% when new.
The deviation is up to 0.3% after a decade, although the pdfs didn't specify if quartz or lead based.
30,040 / 30,000 Mhz is just outside that, although still pretty good considering how old the SNES is.