From the TFA:
The number of cycles and the amplitude of temperature change from low to high determine how quickly it will fail. Certain games will consume more bandwidth on the GPU, which has the most substandard thermal solution on the mother board, making it a lot hotter, warping the mobo and flexing the solder joints. Weak joints fail quickly. The better the game, the more often it will be played, again accelerating failures.
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
Only a certain amount of bandwith should be used, or else? I don't know if it's just me, but shouldn't it run for as long as I want? With whatever game I want? Without breaking I mean...
Another little gem:
I imagine the next big outrage will be when some of the folks who waited till Falcon to buy a console for reliability reasons, and has to send it in for service, gets a Xenon back!
You're twisting this in the wrong way. If I'm buying glasses or contact lenses I know why I buy them. To correct my eyesight as long as I wear them. What kind of lens manufacturer says that i will see better then the rest of the people? Or that in time the glasses will cure my short-sightedness and I won't have to wear them anymore?
All I want is the real specs from a product. Not some marketing BS. Maybe some folks are not bothered by dithering and would like to pay less. Maybe I want something of a better quality. How can I know for sure what I am buying if they keep talking nonsense?
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The number of cycles and the amplitude of temperature change from low to high determine how quickly it will fail. Certain games will consume more bandwidth on the GPU, which has the most substandard thermal solution on the mother board, making it a lot hotter, warping the mobo and flexing the solder joints. Weak joints fail quickly. The better the game, the more often it will be played, again accelerating failures.
WHAT
THE
FUCK?!?!
Only a certain amount of bandwith should be used, or else? I don't know if it's just me, but shouldn't it run for as long as I want? With whatever game I want? Without breaking I mean
Another little gem:
I imagine the next big outrage will be when some of the folks who waited till Falcon to buy a console for reliability reasons, and has to send it in for service, gets a Xenon back!
"We're here to make coffee metal.
We're here to make everything metal.
Blacker than the blackest black times infinity."
Well, it is a "free ride", as long as you're not an US citizen. :-)
Accordion Hero anyone?
Really nice sig! But shouldn't you have a space between "byte" and "me"? Maybe an exclamation mark too, at the end ...
Besides, from what I've read, they were only doing this as a hobby.
Maybe one of them likes slashdot jokes to much?
1. Wait for Apple and AT&T to cripple iPhone
2. Hack iPhone
3. ?????
4. Profit!
Do I smell a ra(n)t? Is that you, Maddox?
You're twisting this in the wrong way. If I'm buying glasses or contact lenses I know why I buy them. To correct my eyesight as long as I wear them. What kind of lens manufacturer says that i will see better then the rest of the people? Or that in time the glasses will cure my short-sightedness and I won't have to wear them anymore? All I want is the real specs from a product. Not some marketing BS. Maybe some folks are not bothered by dithering and would like to pay less. Maybe I want something of a better quality. How can I know for sure what I am buying if they keep talking nonsense?