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Exploring The 360's Crashing and Heat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pirates-of-the-carribean-don't-eat-the-tourists dept.

GameDailyBiz has a piece up looking into the crashing and overheating problems that have plagued the Xbox 360 since the system launched. A new crashing problem seems to be associated with the most recent update to the Xbox Live software, while german forum-goers think they may have identified the overheating issue. From the article: "The way it's installed now by MS the GPU chip makes contact with the protection foil instead of the heat transfer pad. This can of course cause cooling issues for the graphics chip as for optimal cooling performance there should just be a thin layer of thermal pad between the GPU chip and heatsink."

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  1. Wow...its kind of hard to believe. by skogs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its sort of hard to believe that even Microsoft would launch something this obviously flawed. I know that microsoft is primarily a software company and that they don't have much experience with hardware, but any moron thats ever built a computer at all knows that modern CPU's and GPU's need big fat heatsinks...with thermal compound in between.

    Like the article says, they believe the silver foil stuff is supposed to replace the compound...but if it doesn't work well enough...wow.

    I think there must be more to the overheating problem. Nobody could possibly be stupid enough to allow something that simple to overheat the unit. Quality control issues are a likely culprit, but not something as glaringly obvious as a poorly designed crackpot idea of bare metal on that overpriced and fairly important little wafer of sand.

    I don't think the answer is this easy. Perhaps this is something that adds to the overheating problem, but I don't think its the root cause.

    Software updates...how about an Xbox Live software update that underclocks the GPU for them...so that it doesn't overheat and you can play games in beautiful 20fps glory. :)

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  2. Re:Sad day indeed by cornface · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This isn't a small town either, Toledo is either the 4th or 5th largest city in Ohio (not sure if we're ahead of Akron).

    haha. You should try leaving Ohio once or twice before you die. haha. 4th or 5th largest...IN OHIO!

    hahahahah.

    Classic.