Entroper said:
The most likely cause is memory chips that don't meet the required spec. I have touched the case when it's been in WiiConnect24 for over a week, it's warm. Warm + no air flow = warm. It's as warm as it's going to get after a week. If it was hot enough to cause damage, you wouldn't want to touch it. Look, I know this sounds like a good argument. The fan is off, but the system is still running, therefore it must be overheating, but the Wii isn't like a PC. It was designed on purpose with lower specifications, and it uses only a fraction of those in standby mode. A typical CPU draws 100W of power all by itself, the entire Wii only draws 10W in standby. If it really makes you feel better, go ahead and disable the WiiConnect24 feature. |
Do you have your console standing up or lying down? I had it lying down, and when I touched it, it wasn't warm, it was hot. Now I have it standing up and it's only slightly warm.
With no fan, the heating up of the Wii will depend on many different factors. 10W is enough to create a decent amount of heat. The ventilation in the Wii is not fantastic, especially with the fan not on, so the whole thing heats up. It's actually radiating heat from the case of the Wii itself, rather than out the vent at the back. Then things such as where you place the Wii, is it in a small space? Is it on its side? is it lying down? These things all become important because it's not losing heat in the usual way (heatsink draws heat into air, which is then pushed out by the fan). The heatsink is drawing heat into already hot air which then radiates that heat away through the case of the Wii.
Eventually it gets to the point where the heatsink does very little as the temperature of the air inside the Wii approaches the temperature of the chip itself. If the case is hot to touch, you can bet the insides are cooking.
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