According to Xbox-Scene News, it would seem that Microsoft is taking steps to lessen the chance that your recently repaired Xbox 360 will be making a return visit to the doctor. Thanks to some hulking heatsinks that are being added to help alleviate heat stress on the Xenos GPUs, our Xbox 360s should be more healthy in the future.
While it is unclear if the new Xbox units are coming out of the factory with the dual-heatsinks under the hood, it is obvious that at least some repaired consoles have been modified.
Even to this day there are still rumblings around Internet forums that the Xbox 360's failure rate is a bit abnormal. With the whole notion of excess heat being the driving force responsible for those gaming woes, this is welcomed news, to say the least. Is this a silent admission by Microsoft that their engineers were sleeping on the job when the Xbox 360 was originally designed, or simply a natural progression of improvements that every console goes through over time? We'll let you be the judge of that. I can tell you that my own Xbox 360 is pretty much flawless.
[Thanks, Joe Burling]
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1:42 PM on 06.14.2007
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I think they should have done this about a month after launch all I heard about from my friends at retail stores talk about was how (Futureshop) 9 out of 12 360's were returned and sent back and (Walmart) had the same ridiculous numbers.
Maybe the girl standing next to him is part of his purchase.
I know I didn't look that way when I only bought an Xbox 360.
There, I said it.
THIRD replacement X360 lasts....
oh yeah,
do i always have to log into Xbox Live
to play my arcade games now?! WTF !!!
It happens.
I've got two registered 360's and it's happened to both of them. One of them was a bitch to replace too, since it's in Northern Japan right now.
@908Peruvian
Yes, you do have to be online now. I'm right there with ya. Call MS about it, they'll refund your points so you can go rebuy your games through a second Silver account, but it's been about 3 weeks now and I haven't gotten a refund yet.
sorry, i hit refresh a couple of times cause my browser was freaking out and then i see even with a blank comment block everytime after the intial post, it proceeds to fill up the window. sorry
At least the Core system I bought as a backup is still ticking, I guess. Sad that I actually had to buy a second 360 as a backup though.
I think I'll wait until winter for the new chips to come out. The problem THEN, however, is that the CPU is supposed to go to 65nm, and the GPU will make the switch later. If the GPU is the problem, will I have to wait until next spring to get a 360?
Then again, I waited more than two years to get a PS2.
Quit procrastinating and just buy the god damn thing. It'll never be some uber perfect system, and Microsoft will replace it if you make sure you register and etc.
I've had mine a year, I've never had a single solitary problem with it.
Some sort of serial number or something written on the label?