House fan on 360 for cooling

I also have a big fan (not the classic ones but the ones that look like a tower) blowing air on maximun speed into the right side of the 360 and I keep the 360 laying horizontally over 4 caps of spray cans (so it ventilates from the bottom side too)...

over the 360 I put two really small and thin wood pieces (with the minimum surface touching the top of the 360) and over that I put the power brick (so it receives air from the fan too)....

It always run cool for hours and hours (well i play it for like 2-3 hours and then i turn it off for like 15-20 minutes, rinse & repeat)...

Every once in a while I dust off the insides of everything (fan/360/powerbrick) with one of those cans of compressed air...

OVER-EXAGGERATING MUCH? maybe... but I'd do everything to keep that nasty RRoD away from my 360 u___u

and god knows I'm gonna be very pissed if RRoD happens after all those precautions...

Well it's my first 360 and I bought it like 2.5 months ago after years of being reluctant to go to the "next gen" gaming.. I didn't want a wii, ps3 is highly overpriced (like USD$700, price to this very day) and has zero support over here (I live in Cabo, Mexico).. So i took the risk with the 360 crappy hardware...

I haven't had a single problem (2.5 months is obviously way too early to talk about problems, I think) but a lot of friends have dealt with the RRoD and the awful M$ support and I have seen them get angry, frustrated, etc...

So every precaution is absolutely necessary u__u

Well if you game alot then that just adds more to your electricity bill ;)

But i think it would help in some ways.

Well if you game alot then that just adds more to your electricity bill ;)

But i think it would help in some ways.

GamingBraeman

yeah sometimes I think: maybe with the money I'm paying extra in the electricity bill for the fan I could get a new 360 every 2 years LOL

of course the fan cools the 360 down...

I have measured the internal temp with a thermocouple & a multimeter... the fan drops the temp like 10-15 Celsius and believe me that's a lot.

And sometimes I play with a cousin over his house and I'm continually checking the air the internal fans are getting out and it's always way more hot than mine even when mine it's been on like 4 hours and my cousins just like half an hour...

the fact that not all RRoD are heat related well that's another thing... I'm just trying to minimize possible causes of failure

as long as you don't do what my 10yo cousin did...

he notices the powerbrick is hot... "what do i do?" he thinks... of course! I'll put it on the freezer...

things are far simpler when you're a kid.... LOL

I put a laptop cooler under my xbox...I didn't think it would do anything, but I think it really does help. Before the cooler, the xbox would blow hot air out the back...It would even warm up the wall a bit that is about 2 feet away. After I put the cooler underneath, the air blowing out the back no longer feels hot, and it certainly doesn't warm up the wall any more.

However, I had tested the same cooler on my laptop by running lots of programs to crank up the temp and monitoring the temperature...I noticed the cooler did nothing at all to alter the temperature...So having fans blow on the xbox might be just as useless...

but it can't hurt, right?