Exploring The 360's Crashing and Heat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 10, 2006 @11:36AM 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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Re:Tragedy Becomes Farce by Blakey+Rat · 2006-03-10 12:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

Ditto here. Not a single issue.

http://live.xbox.com/member/Mecha+Gamera - gamertag, if you care. Notice how 1337 I am.

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Of course... by Ice+Wewe · 2006-03-10 14:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Why is this such a surprise? Microsoft did this so that they can sell xBox cooling replacements to you!
Microsoft Employee: Ok kid, that'll be $99 for the replacement heat-sync.
Billy: But you said this was covered under warrenty!
Microsoft Employee: No, your warrenty was void when I found that piece of foil on the thermal gel...
Ok everyone, say this with me... "Lawsuit!"