Worried About My 360

[swanlee]

If you worried about heat you can get a laptop cooler and plug it into the usb port. Several people have done this already.

 

[Metal]

If you have roughly 1" at the top and a few inches on the backs / sides you'll never have an issue with the Xbox 360 unit getting too hot as long as your room is between 65 and 75 degrees F ambient. Well as long as the fans inside don't fail. A friend of mine that works the tech support for Microsoft told me that 90% of the problems with people claiming overheating have been the power brick itself getting too hot. The units actually have a good albeit brute force method of cooling. The money went into power and not an elegant cooling solution as can be seen when you look at the unit inside and also hear the fan.

 

[Kabbage]

My fears have been realized.

My Xbox360 (Core Unit) has officially crashed , Hopefully MS is as prompt as Sony was when I sent my off warranty PS2 in for replacement.

 

[Carl B]

My fears have been realized.

My Xbox360 (Core Unit) has officially crashed , Hopefully MS is as prompt as Sony was when I sent my off warranty PS2 in for replacement.

So like a week after the fact, eh?

Did you change your pattern of gaming or length of time gaming? Did environmental factors change? Location of console?

I'm just curious really - it would definitely suck if you weren't doing anything different and it just finally gave out, but there may have been something that changed to bring this about. You *should* be able to game for as long as you want on it, but really if it was during an extended gaming session it would be good to know.

 

[Kabbage]

Well, my sister moved it to her room (once or twice since we had it) , it was closer to teh ground (Still sitting vertical) , and for Thanksgiving we took it to the get-together we had.

I rented and played PDZ for maybe an hour or 2 a day (nowhere near a lenghty gaming session from me). I tried to take precautions by moving the power brick put from behind of the console to a less confined area.

It was in her room when it went out.

 

[jvd]

where was the power brick ? mine got really really hot one day had to shut down and let it cool off . Now i keep it on to p of my entertainment unit

 

[scooby_dooby]

mine just sits on the ground against the wall behind my entertainment center, no problems whatsover. i got hardwood floors though, that probably helps.

 

[Kabbage]

On the floor in front of the tv, It was on the carpet, I tried to elevate it with a couple of magazines. (Dont know if she had them elevated though)

I may have to make me a little setup to keep it off the carpet.

Or just go out and buy one of the console stands they had

 

[jvd]

On the floor in front of the tv, It was on the carpet, I tried to elevate it with a couple of magazines. (Dont know if she had them elevated though)

I may have to make me a little setup to keep it off the carpet.

Or just go out and buy one of the console stands they had

ack on magazines ? Thats most likely worse than the carpet . That could potentialy cause a fire dude .

Just put your unit in a good airflow area and see how it works.

We haven't gotten any returns at our store yet or have heard of any problems that wasn't solved by moving the console somewhere cooler with proper airflow . So i can't help u if its anything more serious .


However if it doesn't work ms will over night u packaging supplies with overnight postage included so u can over night it back to them and get it normaly within a week

 

[Kabbage]

Thats why I had it in a visible area

They are already sending out the necessary packaging, (Should be here tomorrow) and we should get it back in 4-5 business days.

The console itself has about a 1 1/2 feet from the back into the corner that out tv setup causes, 1 foot from the wall , and about 8in clearance from the nearest object, which is our vertical PS2.

 

[jvd]

Thats why I had it in a visible area

They are already sending out the necessary packaging, (Should be here tomorrow) and we should get it back in 4-5 business days.

The console itself has about a 1 1/2 feet from the back into the corner that out tv setup causes, 1 foot from the wall , and about 8in clearance from the nearest object, which is our vertical PS2.

Does it have good airflow ? We have a tv rack thing with glass in the front and anything we put in there gets extremely hot so we took the glass off

 

[Kabbage]

Other than the PS2 being about 8 inches off from the side of the 360, i see nothing that blocks airflow.

 

[jvd]

Other than the PS2 being about 8 inches off from the side of the 360, i see nothing that blocks airflow.

that sucks , u must have just gotten a bad apple

 

[AlphaWolf]

Where is the psu? A lot of people have reported that suspending their psu (brick) in the air a bit to give more airflow has cleared overheating issues. I'd try setting it on something like a couple of bic pens.

 

[Carl B]

Where is the psu? A lot of people have reported that suspending their psu (brick) in the air a bit to give more airflow has cleared overheating issues. I'd try setting it on something like a couple of bic pens.

I agree that might help, but honestly might as well take advantage of a new system courtesy of Microsoft at some point or another if his is that prone to overheating or PSU failure. One can't be expected to have to suspend their PSUs over several years of life afterall, that's just absurd.

 

[scooby_dooby]

I'd just send it back, it should work fine like >97% of them are.

Why can't they just send you a new PSU though??

 

[flf]

Several years back I remember seeing desks that had a built-in cubby for the desktop computer... but the silly things had just a small hole in the back for the cords, and a locking front door. As a result, from about the Pentium days onwards, people would regularly kill their machines by having them in these little ovens.

Heck, I don't even like having enclosed racks for the stereo gear... those amps can produce some serious wattage in spare heat.

 

[Bill]

I would not be messing with little tricks to keep it from overheating. You shouldn't have to do that.

I do nothing at all to avoid overheating with mine, and it always works.

I'd definitly return it. It will probably get worse.

Wait he had it on carpet? That sounds bad.

Magazines should be fine.

It's also weird he was worried about overheating before anything ever went wrong..then it overheated. Just odd.

Hell I dont know. But more more less it shouldn't ever overheat. If this post is true, I would return it.

 

[Fox5]

At what state is 65nm at anyway, the sooner the better. I'm hoping I don't have to have a fan on to keep me cool while playing 360.

Yeah, I think I'll wait for the 65nm revision. The 360 has already had some major problems pop up...and it hasn't even been out 2 weeks, usually it takes months before hardware failures start popping up, who knows what else will happen. Not to mention X360 is supposed to have a rather loud fan....my PC is virtually silent and well...I just don't want a loud console. (and it helps that there are no must have games for the 360 right now, so no real harm in waiting for a hardware revision)

 

[a688]

Yeah, I think I'll wait for the 65nm revision. The 360 has already had some major problems pop up...and it hasn't even been out 2 weeks, usually it takes months before hardware failures start popping up

What "major problems" has the xbox360 had? They only problem that SOME seem to be having is over heating but nothing official has been stated. Also, hardware problems occur from day one. Most hardware problems either occur immediately or take a realitively long time to occur. There is no such thing where problems occur only after a couple of months unless its a design flaw. The official failure rate is around 3% which is lower than most consumer hardware.