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[Adz786]

[SOURCE]= Japan Explains: Why Xbox 360s Heat Up and Crap Out - Kotaku

Face it: the Xbox 360 isn't quite up to snuff. The design is flawed, leading to an abnormal number of machines konking out. Since Microsoft won't reveal the details of what exactly is causing the problems, Japanese news source Nikkei had a thermal design expert analyze the 360's heat radiation system. Two Xbox 360's were used for the investigation: one purchased in 2005, and the other that was repaired in May 2007. Their findings?


• The temperature gap with room temp was 22 degrees C. "When designing consumer products, it is common to seek a temperature gap of around 10 degrees C between exhaust and room temperatures," the thermal design expert said. "The 22 degrees C is quite a large gap..."
• The cooling fan was half of desktop PCs — apparently to reduce noise.
• The expert pointed out, "The heat sink on the graphics LSI is so small, I wonder if it can really cool down the board." The reason for this? Apparently, Microsoft had to downsized graphics LSI heat sink so that the DVD drive could be placed above it.
• In five minutes after booting up a game, the graphic LSI heat sink temp rose to 70 degrees C. In 15 minutes, the temperature for the microprocessor heat sink stabilized at 58 degrees, but the graphics LSI heat sink reached 80 degrees C. If the room temperature was high (like 35 degrees C), the heat sink could possibly hit 100 degrees C. What's more, if the vents were clogged with dust, the temperature could also increase.
• The console repaired in May 2007 did not have a new heat sink placed in it.
This is bad design. Really, really bad.

[Brock_Samson]

It's not a bad design. It's just cheap cooling system they made for the 360 and thats it. Every 360 I've worked with I re-did the fan's (who cares about noise anymore?) and a better venting of air. barely have to touch the heat sinks once there is a good ventilation of air.

[RL jordan]

I think Microsoft basically screwed every single person that bought a 360 what a waste you pay for a 300-500$ game system from a company that has been proven as a very reliable producer and they wanna be cheap wth

[zxzkilme]

Doesn't matter 360 will sell more than the PS3 because 360 has more game sponsors because they have good graphics in a generic way which makes it cheap unlike the PS3 no one really wants a top of the line graphics that costs 600$ and no company makes games for it because it's too hard to program for

[canadianbacon]

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[Dathan]

thats why its usually best to wait a few batches, that way some bugs are eliminated and better HW is used