Xbox 360 Unstable?
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Seems to be a heat issue. I wonder. The area I was going to put an X360 when I can get one is an enclosed A/V cabinet. Now I have to wonder if sharing the cabinet with my A/V receiver and PVR, both of which get real hot, is going to be a problem. Perhaps there's a design flaw in the cooling solution they use, or it is easy for manufacturing to screw it up because tolerances are too stringent.
You can't put a piece of electronics that dissipates 250+ watts at its peak in any kind of a cabinet, lest it be a refridgerator cabinet... 
It even says in the manual you can't put it in a stereo cabinet unless it's well ventilated, nor place it near any heat sources. It'll just be asking for trouble doing that.
It even says in the manual you can't put it in a stereo cabinet unless it's well ventilated, nor place it near any heat sources. It'll just be asking for trouble doing that.
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Guden Oden said:You can't put a piece of electronics that dissipates 250+ watts at its peak in any kind of a cabinet, lest it be a refridgerator cabinet...
It even says in the manual you can't put it in a stereo cabinet unless it's well ventilated, nor place it near any heat sources. It'll just be asking for trouble doing that.
Why not? My PC sits in a cabinet, draws over 250watts, and has an internal power supply...
I'll do a test when I get home, I'll sandwidh the X360 between my recievers, play it for a few hours and see if I have any problems. Judging by how cool it seems to run I think it'll be fine.
Sidenote - has anyone noticed how HOT the discs get??!
scooby_dooby said:
I would honestly be intrigued by the results of that experiment. Discs getting hot seems to be a common case though. As long as it's not hot enough to cause warping and seperation on the information layer though, not too big a deal I imagine.
That might not be very indicative though over overall system tolerance to heat. It might well not be a case of 'placing your XB360 in a warm area will cause troubles'. It might be say 5% of consoles can't cope with being surrounded by warm air, but to reduce the trouble with these a general set of instructions are given out. I'm not quite sure what the difference between individual units would be to affect vulnerability to heat, other than poor heatsink contacts. It could be there's a 5% with a not so great heatsink interface which are fine just so long as the surronding air isn't too warm.scooby_dooby said:
I dont know how hot the discs are getting, but I played PGR3 last night for 2 hrs, and it didnt crash or glitch or cause me any problems. My 360 has been working fine with no problems. the dvd drive is loud. and when I got done playing last night I touched the case and it did not feel hot to me. I think a lot of people having issues may be putting it on a closed space.
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strange, I took kameo out last night after only a few minutes, and it was quite hot. Not super hot or anything, but definately abnormal.
I have to agree with the console seeming extremely cool though, to the touch it doesn't seem hot at all, and holy crap is teh thing quiet. Maybe fans are kicking on when I play, i woudln't be able to hear at that point anyways, but when just idleing it's like whisper quiet.
I have to agree with the console seeming extremely cool though, to the touch it doesn't seem hot at all, and holy crap is teh thing quiet. Maybe fans are kicking on when I play, i woudln't be able to hear at that point anyways, but when just idleing it's like whisper quiet.
AlphaWolf said:
The fins of the heatsink are still the closest thing to the DVD drive -- its still going to heat up the DVD drive by the fact that it's so close. But I imagine it would have more of an affect while laying flat.
It doesn't seem to really matter though, the discs just seem to get a bit warmer to the touch than people are used to, and as long as they don't get hot enough to warp the discs then it doesn't matter. I was merely trying to possibly explain why it was happening.
That reminds me of the time my bro got a new Shuttle PC, before they were the fashion. We assembled it, added our own CPU and graphics card, switched it on, and MAN was it quiet! Practically silent. I was so impressed. And then a bit later after some glitches and crashes, we found the fan wasn't plugged in and the machine was overheatingscooby_dooby said:
. Once the fan was attached, gone was the fantastic silence (though it was still very quiet, especially compared with his old vacuum-cleaner-level-noise PC). So just be sure the fans are quiet, and not just unattached 