360 failure rate now less than 4%

[Squilliam]

Mvp4eVa said:

Squilliam said:

Thats kinda ignorant. Don't you realise that the idle power usage is only a little lower than the power useage in game? Leaving it on to 'cool off' would simply be a waste of power. furthermore the heat output is something like nearly 40% less than the original Xbox 360 with beefier cooling still being applied. I doubt that its a heat issue anymore.

 

I agreed in a way of letting your console idle (displaying dashboard) for a few minutes before turning it off because it doesn't demand that much power or isn't much of a load for the GPU, not that I do that but, it make sense, sort of, its working for him.

No its not working for anyone. Jasper power useage is 12W less during idle as playing Halo 3 and a lot of that is simply the optical drive and HDD not spinning. http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3472&p=5. These consoles don't have any form of power management in them.