drkohler on 09 July 2013
| slowmo said: I was merely hoping you would enlighten others to the fact that RROD was a a systemic fault with the design of the original 360 board and a lack of understanding on the ramifications of moving to lead free solder. |
I think it is pretty agreed upon that the horribly bad cooling design in the original X360 lead to rrod (the lf solder didn't really matter in the end, it would have backfired with any solder). Basically, if I remember correctly, it was the cooling fan position that killed it (the original XBox had the fan right next to the major heat source, the original XBox360 maintained the fan position but had the heat source moved away too far from it, which caused almost immediate overheating.
