Editing Nintendo GameCube (section)

=== Three figures on that sheet worth knowing about ===

'''"Average access time 128 ns" is impossible, and it is what Nintendo printed.'''<ref name="nwrspec" /> A mechanical optical drive cannot seek in 128 nanoseconds &mdash; that is a few clock cycles. The figure is presumably a units error for 128 ms, which is a plausible seek time for a drive of this class, but '''Nintendo never issued a correction''' and no other manufacturer figure exists. It is reproduced here as printed rather than silently fixed, because a reader checking this page against Nintendo's sheet should find them agreeing. Treat it as unusable data, not as a specification.

'''The processor clock is quoted two different ways.''' Nintendo's sheet says '''485 MHz'''; the console's own operating-system globals report '''486 MHz''', and that is the figure the community documentation uses.<ref name="yagcd" /><ref name="nwrspec" /> Both are correct in the sense that both are published; neither is a misprint of the other.

'''The power figure is quoted two different ways too.''' Nintendo's sheet says '''12 V at 3.5 A'''; the '''DOL-002''' adapter's own rating plate says '''12 V at 3.25 A'''.<ref name="dol002" /><ref name="nwrspec" /> When substituting a supply, the rating plate is the one to match.