Microsoft combats red rings: heatsinks to the rescue

Cool. Get it? Cool.. LAWL!!

Ohh... So its supposed to not get hot.

Joe Burling fucks wolves.

There, I said it.

we will see how long my
THIRD replacement X360 lasts....

oh yeah,
do i always have to log into Xbox Live
to play my arcade games now?! WTF !!!

I'd say it's about time, but this should of gotten done a long ass time ago.

I would have thought that they would've done this in the elite.
Whateva' heat is the enemy of a lot of things. They put the 360 through some super rigorous testing phases, but I guess they never did the standard "hey, let's play it for a really long time" test.

I'm hoping the 65nm processors will fix most of these issues.

Yeah, that fucker should stop tipping this place

Who the fuck is Joe Burling?

My brother’s 360 (which he got this past Christmas) has yet to have a problem with overheating...probably because I constantly remind him to keep it and its massive power brick well-ventilated at all times. However, we can’t use the damn thing vertically. Every time we’ve tried to play a game with the console on its side, it has only worked for a short time. Pretty soon, though, we get the classic error: “The disc is unreadable.” My PS3 is standing up right now, curing cancer as I type this, and I have never had any hardware issues — no overheating problems, no disc read errors, nothing. I guess an extra $200 doesn’t just buy Blu-ray...it pays for peace of mind, too.

Woah, Joe Burling has a profile now? It's kinda like I'm looking in the mirror like in the Aha - Take On Me music video...

ok, so it has more heat sinks, good news. wait... without better fans how is the newly collected heat going to get anywhere but back into what was getting cooled down? don't tell me after market coolers, because that isn't the point.

ahhh
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

I'm in China, and the guys at all the game stores say that they mod the boxes with new fans and heat sinks and shit b4 they sell them (chinese store people also lie like the devil to get you to buy something) but on the first day I had 3 brand new from Taiwan boxes go red. I'm on the 4th, and they were super pissed to give it to me bc they said it was some special one that had super fans or something. It's from Japan. I am a little worried though bc when I got home and looked at the maufacture date: November 17th 2005. It's a launch box. It's hella louder than my friends' and it doesn't ever seem to feel too hot even after 12-13 hours straight on Oblivion or Gears. The fans blow so hard that I have it sitting 2-3 feet from the wall and the wall is always warm. I cant get on live anymore though bc of the country lockouts and firmware bullshit. You can't get a system here w.o. modded firmware so I'm double fucked when I get back home. All my friends are on at least their 2nd box, though. One dude has been getting them about every 2 months. At least over here if you speak chinese you can bitch at the store owners enough for them to open up a new box and just give you the one in there. It's pretty nice.

Hmm... so now the air will be pre-heated before going to the CPU? Surely the 360 engineers knew how close to the edge they were taking the design? I guess they figured that as long as the core doesn't melt, it's OK.

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.

So, if you happen to be getting a new or new replacement Xbox 360 in the near future, how will one be able to tell if it has the heat sinks in it or not? Without opening it up and voiding the warranty, of course.

Some sort of serial number or something written on the label?