5) Go buy a new Elite or Halo Edition one... The Elite can handle the stress of Heat expansion alittle better as the new ones have a better heat sink "i think" and silicone sealant around major components to stop expansion.
Umm.... All the units built in the last 3 months are the same.
If you got one built before then it will be the same. Half of the Elites out there are the old models that have the same problems.
Sure they have a better heat sink but that doesn't solve the problems.
Good news is if you didn't tamper with it you under another 2 years of warranty.
*Possible fix that will Void Warranty
X-clamp Mod.
Fan Mods etc....
*Risky Towel Trick. . . "I wouldn't do this more than ounce as it damages solder"
*Rip it apart and take a hot blow drier to the board ^^ Same Risk as above. . . little less savage on the approach to it tho.
Most of the so called fixes are stupid as most cause more damage to the system.
Though I really do love the last suggestion. Take a blow drier to the board...
"Id say if all else fails just send it to Microsoft and you will get a new/fixed one in a week and half to 2 weeks. . . In the meantime build a cooling shrine for it ^^.
That should be the only thing done...
And for the guy who said "you should of got a ps3" . . . Ps3's Overheat and Fail and get Red Ring also . . . its just not as publicized because ps3 fan boys are too scared to complain to the manufacturer about a problem. ( Any Next Gen System with 3 Or more Cpu Cores is GOING TO GET HOT) "What compels people to throw it on there bed next to a stack of pron mags and moldy pizza and use it as an ash tray is beyond me"
Pure fan boy talk there.
First of all... How does a PS3 get a Red Ring? Explain that... There is no damn ring on it!
Second of all, not necessarily will multiple cores get hot. It's all down to the design of the chip and how efficient it is. The Cell processor is a marvel of modern electronics. It's extremely efficient. It doesn't use too much power and it out performs anything around.
Now with the x360, the problem isn't really with the CPU. It isn't the hottest thing there. The GPU is. Even the new 65nm CPU systems still get hot. Why? It's not the CPU's fault. The GPU is the biggest problem with the x360 and that's because of how ATI designed their R5xx and R600 chips.
Now for the PS3, that just isn't the case. Their GPU is much cooler running and the CPU is also cooler running. The hottest thing in the PS3 is the HDD and BluRay player and not the chips.
That is why the PS3 doesn't over heat.
Trust me on this. My PS3 has operated in poorly ventilated area with high room temps and it never once over heated and died. I've had it to lock up a few times but thats only when I ran the system for 18 hour straight and after 2 mins it turned back on and ran perfectly fine for another 6 hours before I turned it off to sleep.
It really does make me laugh at how much of a fan boy you are. You trash something you have never used. :icon6:
Also Microsoft is slowly buying out all the Ps3 Exclusive Titles so theres no point to get a ps3 at all... unless your one of those Final Fantasy / Tekken Players thats about the only Titles that will draw people to buy ps3... personally I am going to wait and buy both systems when Ps3 is 200$ just like its other over priced predecessors . . .
"I will ps3 used in a garage sale in a year, when the games that matter actually exist" ^^
MS will never buy out all of the PS3 exclusive titles. Why? A lot of them have SCE as their publisher and SCE will be damned to sell their stuff to their rival.
Yet again more fan boy crap.
Sure MS is buying out 3rd party developers/publishers but that's the business. Things flop all the time.
Capcom, Square Soft, and Kanomi were all Nintendo exclusives that Sony stole.
Ps: seeing as how you used the Towel Trick . . . you probably did it too long and melted the solder right off the board... "I wouldn't tell Microsoft about that if I was you" ^^ * The Towel Trick is a terrible way to Rez your Xbox* basically beacuase Xbox uses a more enviromentaly safe solder"led Free" because of govt regulations that are starting to pop up . . . it can't take that much heat without loosening up the solder....
that is why it gets messed up after being in too warm a condition.... for prolonged time... and needs Room to breathe.... i run mine in an open flat surface with nothing around it and i play for 12 + Hours non stop Halo 3/ DOA 4 Gears of war Etc and guess what?
Never froze/Never Crashed/Never RROD The case hardly hits 50 Deg C id say Top 65 Deg C at full load maybe on a warm day 70. ... been doing this for about 4 Months now on my Xbox 360 Elite..... o and whenever some one tries to smoke at my house i send them to the back yard and tell them to stay 30 feet from my windows/doors and i make them shake there jackets / clothes outside to remove dust and ****... i cant stand filthy smokers.... coming over ruining all my electronics with there filth.
Just wait and see. You have one of the old Elites that are prone to this crap also. I ran my old one perfectly fine for 12 months. 2 day before having it for 1 year it died. I always made sure it was in a perfectly open area with great ventilation and never allowed anyone to smoke near it. So why did mine die? I thought the same crap but that isn't the case.
And smoke doesn't hurt electronics for the most part. The odds of it doing it is very slim. The only way it will happen is if you had 20 people standing around it 24/7 for a few months. Then maybe it will die because of it.
NoPeace - out
as I keep it almost 24/7 for playing &/or folding@home.
