New Xbox 360 Design still overheating....

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It may run hot but Sony has had a good track record this Gen of their systems being reliable and not breaking all the time. Ive gone through 2 xbox 360's and i am on a replacement xbox at the moment. The Redesign looks nice but honestly i think the problem is taht they treid to make it smaller, jammed a CPU and GPU in a heasink that is super tiny looks worse than an Intel stock heatsink, i know for sure they use cheap thermal compound as i craked open my first xbox 360 to fix it, and they kept the same **** dvd drive, a 12x one for that matter, there are tray drives that won't scratch your discs you know. I hope this is all a bunch of poop and its jsut a small amount of people,

but Microsoft has a bad track record.

Stevo_the_gamer

Ironically, my experience with Xbox 360s this generation have been much better than with Sony's Playstation 3. I had a Launch Xbox 360 last me till last January. That's more than four years, and my 40GB PS3 died in less than a few months. And I've had my PS3 Slim now since last September, and even that has given me a ****-ton of issues (corrupting saves, turning off randomly, constant freezing, failing to turn off at all). There's always folks getting YLODs as well, and overheating issues as well. Yet a few instances here for the Xbox 360 Slim and it's SW material. So easy to jump on that bandwagon regarding Xbox 360 reliability.

Yet Sony has an even worse track record with the PS1, PSP screens, and the PS2. It was rather surprising to see the PS3 hold up so well in regards to reliability.

Well, MS is a Software company so... yeah not a big surprise.

Not just because they are a software company, but hardware issues seems to be a staple of the 360 so I never really doubted the new model would do away with it.

its a M$ product, wat do you expect?RTUUMM

is this about the same user who claimed its new 360 rdod? and why does anyone care, microsoft had lots of problems with the first xbox 360. so when the new 360 smaller one is launched its expected to be perfect, so if 5 people say they have problems, to the news world that means 10 million people have problems with the new 360. they are only posting this because of the old 360 issues.

Yes it stills kills your disc if you move it during play.

But alas I'm getting one. Gave my old one away to a family member. The slim is $450 here, but I don't care since I'm loaded.

Uh, I am on my 5th Xbox (1)............so no, they pretty much have never had quality hardware.

dxmcat

Why would you buy 5 of anything that failed on you 4 times before? Maybe you mean that you have sent a few back to MS and they have returned them, and those refurbs have failed? I mean I just don't understand why people would continue to buy something they know failed over and over.

I enjoy both my Xbox and my PS3 but if this 2nd PS3 fails I won't buy another one.

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[QUOTE="RTUUMM"]its a M$ product, wat do you expect?Sniping_Crowbar

And yet both the original Xbox, and Zune are very reliable products.

I know i bought a used xbox for $130 dollars in 2003 and it still works today, extremely reliable console, never had any issues with it, this is why its so frustrating that the xbox 360 has hardware problems some of the worst that i can remember.

Man this crap is getting out of hand now. there have been 3 cases of the new Xbox 360s failing. The person on here that had it shut down after 20 minutes of play. The person who had the bad power brick, and the joker on you tube that was obviously faking it with the supposed red dot after 2 hours of swapping data between the hard drives. Plug the AV connector back into the back of the Xbox, the red dot will go away. Let's see really dark video, no picture of the back of the Xbox, and it powers up, but no errors on the TV...hmmmm...a little suspicious if you ask me. So really two failures out of the thousands of consoles shipped.

I'm glad to see that the chuckle heads at Destructurd are showing their journalistic integrity and just making an article up without facts. Must be a long line of PS3 fanboys working there too.

ill give tia few months to get a collective opinon on it.

[QUOTE="RTUUMM"]its a M$ product, wat do you expect?treedoor

And yet both the original Xbox, and Zune are very reliable products.

just been to xbox.com (again) and there are no threads with people complaining about it (again) so far it's been 5 confirmed units, that's all, you could really facepalm all the guys blowing this completely out of proportion, i am willing to bet the slim's failure rate is below the 3% acceptable failure rate, this is just cows tring to keep the myth alive, but who can blame them, without the RROd and with new built in wireless, they only have ONE thing to bash the 360 for now and that's the lack of blu-ray,loldelta3074

I don't know if this is true, but I've been hearing certain threads are being deleted at Xbox.com regarding the new 360 slim. The evidence was shown in that other GS thread about overheating 360s, and I just wanted to give you heads up.

That would explain possibly, why you can't find something at Xbox.com.

It's also possible, that only that one thread was deleted, but it check out that other thread if you want, a fellow GS poster did the research. I didn't care so much, but I just caught your post and thought I would lend a hand.

It's also possible there is no issue as well.

[QUOTE="delta3074"]just been to xbox.com (again) and there are no threads with people complaining about it (again) so far it's been 5 confirmed units, that's all, you could really facepalm all the guys blowing this completely out of proportion, i am willing to bet the slim's failure rate is below the 3% acceptable failure rate, this is just cows tring to keep the myth alive, but who can blame them, without the RROd and with new built in wireless, they only have ONE thing to bash the 360 for now and that's the lack of blu-ray,lolSolidTy

I don't know if this is true, but I've been hearing certain threads are being deleted at Xbox.com regarding the new 360 slim. The evidence was shown in that other GS thread about overheating 360s, and I just wanted to give you heads up.

That would explain possibly, why you can't find something at Xbox.com.

It's also possible, that only that one thread was deleted, but it check out that other thread if you want, a fellow GS poster did the research. I didn't care so much, but I just caught your post and thought I would lend a hand.

It's also possible there is no issue as well.

similar to a pc which shuts down when internals get to hot. however i think they need to give option to override this. must have been played for several hours. My ps3 gets super hot after a few hours of gaming, but doesnt shut down, although it might be better in the long run if it did lol. I think its a failsafe b/c they really dont want people complaining about overheated xbox anymore. Im sure like they did with those jasper or whatever chips in later 360 models, the new slim will change and be better later when you need it.

It can't be not using 45nm it can't! :? Can it? :?

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[QUOTE="RTUUMM"]its a M$ product, wat do you expect?Megaman5364

And yet both the original Xbox, and Zune are very reliable products.

They key word here would be "my". All in all, the original xbox was regarded as very reliable even after getting hit with a sledgehammer.

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And yet both the original Xbox, and Zune are very reliable products.

tempest91

They key word here would be "my". All in all, the original xbox was regarded as very reliable even after getting hit with a sledgehammer.

Yeah the first Xbox was very reliable. That is the reason it cost MS billions because they used good quality parts in it. The PS2 broke more than the Xbox did and you see the reason for that. Now it seems Sony has gone the route of MS from last gen and they are using quality parts in the PS3 but they are in last place.

Sure the console shutting down to avoid red ringing is good, because it means it saves your console from death... but don't you think they could have removed the whole "Overheating" option entirely since they redesigned the console from scratch? It doesn't say much about MS that they only addressed the biggest problem with their console in a half-assed, almost-fixed manner when they had the opportunity to completely rectify it. That's assuming that the reports of it shutting down etc. are true, of course, I don't know personally because I have a regular old 360.Hahadouken

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According to various reports? Yet they provide no evidence? I love hearsay. How does this even make news?

Respawn-d

So there has been zero reported failures and a couple of consoles having overheating issues, or not as something like a bad heat sensor is just as likely. Everyone just chill the hell out and stop spreading FUD.

Heh...Microsoft. Have a console that's notorious for overheating, make the chip size smaller and then make the case smaller. **** " Slim". Who really needed a Slim console or gave a **** about aesthetics? They should've made a bigger console that worked. Put the smaller chips in that. That's what people cared about: reliability.

Heh...Microsoft. Have a console that's notorious for overheating, make the chip size smaller and then make the case smaller. **** " Slim". Who really needed a Slim console or gave a **** about aesthetics? They should've made a bigger console that worked. Put the smaller chips in that. That's what people cared about: reliability.

Toniofalcon_

One of my friedns got it and he says it runs really hot but its quiet and ahsnt given him any problems.

this is why i cant stand microsoft. everything they make it trash. i would not be shocked at all if natal gets hardware problems.

this is why i cant stand microsoft. everything they make it trash. i would not be shocked at all if natal gets hardware problems.

dontshackzmii

this is why i cant stand microsoft. everything they make it trash. i would not be shocked at all if natal gets hardware problems.

dontshackzmii

The zune and the original xbox are fine. They rushed the 360, we all know this. Their accessories/controllers hold up well, so I'm not sure why you're so angry at them.

this is why i cant stand microsoft. everything they make it trash. i would not be shocked at all if natal gets hardware problems.

dontshackzmii

So other than the early 360s and of course Windows ME what else has been trash?

You mean this machine isn't invincable? I guess I'll wait until they release the "promise not to break" version.

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this is why i cant stand microsoft. everything they make it trash. i would not be shocked at all if natal gets hardware problems.

coasterguy65

So other than the early 360s and of course Windows ME what else has been trash?

[QUOTE="RTUUMM"]its a M$ product, wat do you expect?treedoor

And yet both the original Xbox, and Zune are very reliable products.

im surprised people even think making a thread about xboxes failing worth their time.

Does anyone know if the new x360 console also scratches DVD's like the old one? (when ie you move the console with disc inside...)haris12121212

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this is why i cant stand microsoft. everything they make it trash. i would not be shocked at all if natal gets hardware problems.

coasterguy65

So other than the early 360s and of course Windows ME what else has been trash?

Within the context of the entire OS ecosystem Windows has always been behind the curve (e.g. Win 9x wasn't a multitasking OS when even the Amiga, which debuted a decade before, had a multitasking OS). As well as most of their other products, IIS, IE, etc.

Not that everything they do in software is trash. Office is (was?) pretty decent. And while being self serving to lock in users Direct X is rather brilliant.

In other news Sony considering the awesome design model that includes a yellow warning dot to prevent YLoD on all future PS3's.

It's about time.. :P

As does the PS3 and Wii. Leave any console on long enough and it may overheat... the thing is, it isn't a guarantee. I've seen a N64 overheat after being played straight for 10 hours, and then not work until you let it cool down. Overheating is unavoidable.