It is no secret that a large portion of the first shipped Xbox 360 consoles were defective. Microsoft Corp. has admitted to this problem and set aside a mountain of cash to repair or replace defective units for customers. In order to prevent more problems of this nature, Microsoft introduced a revised cooling design with heatpipe and heatsink to cool the GPU and used 56nm chip technology ... [ read the full article ]
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Yes it is abit late in the game, but its not impossible they could redesign the motherboard to improve airflow. or perhaps they could redesign the case to not have so many holes,this is basic common enginering sense. you see take a tube stick a fan on both sides the flow will more than likely reach the other side take that same tube polk holes in it and the airflow will be greatly reduced. the thing is it has no room for fans. people think great amount of space when they think xbox. but the xbox360 is really compact its worse than a laptop. but just my two cents
360 is that a circle
1. Buy the console
2. Get the ring of fire
3. Send it to get repaired by Microsoft
4. Get a refurb. one back
5. repeat steps 1-5 once ring of fire appears once again(or another problem occurs)
this is called the microsoft lifecycle...i have a ps2 slim and yes it only last a year laser problems galore won't read discs had to mod it in order for it to get working with a modchip that protects the laser from overburn...so ps2 problem solved.
I own a ps3 and its hads loads of problems(no modchip available yet) no custom firmware like the psp(can't play super mario/donkey kong in HD yet) can't read certain videos(custom firmware could fix this issue) and linux on ps3 can't hear sound, can't use blu-ray and graphics card in linux. Ok the ps3 is very limited to its functions because of copyright protection it has... x-box 360 was cracked with a firmware upgrade within weeks of release(copyprotection non-functional) at least that works on the ps3. This is to show x-box 360 was rushed they did'nt care that people could compromise there system oh heck they even charge for online gaming(i though all i needed was an isp whats this x-box live(which does not work half the time, ex halo 3 takes forever sometimes to find matches and i can't customize them to have rockets only). I am a ps3 fan because of square enix(kingdom hearts 3, ff13, ff13 versus) those are the games i am interested in. I would like to have bioshock but its much better on a pc anyways with directx 10(oh yeah microsoft screwed this up where is directx 10 sound my x-fi sound card has problems on vista)
Quote:"We've got incredible reliability on the new work we've done," he continued. "Our commitment is that it will be the most reliable video game box out there. People really love the Xbox because of the content, but we've got to make sure that the hardware never stands in the way of that."
People have held you to that quote and will still hold you to that quote.
Wow i've gotta say i've bought well over 12 xbox's, had 2 original playstations with mod chips, 3 ps2's, modded over 20 xbox's now and i've had 3 xbox 360's.
first one i bought refurbished and it got the rrod after 3 hours of halo 3. Second one was a replacement from the company i bought it from and that got stolen new years day. My third xbox is a 360 elite and it's probably the best thing out there. It gets a little warm after being on for hours on end but if you go to llamma.com you can see the difference between the new setup and the old ones.
All in all if i were to review the xbox360 it would probably get a mid level score due to reliability issues. It really sucks calling up microsoft and having them ship you a box. It's all free and yes if you have a gold account they will give you a credit if it's not a trial period. The old xbox's you could throw against the wall and they would still work fine, they were like a armored tank. You could easily take them apart and switch components, clean them, do whatever you needed and they were the most reliable thing out there as far as i'm concerned.
Bill gates finally fixed the problem but that won't stop people from buyin used xbox's that haven't been fixed. My advice to you, if you buy an xbox 360, get an elite or premium and make sure it's brand new.
