| Squilliam said: Sorry I was tired last night so I didn't quite explain myself. The Xbox 360 shouldn't overheat even if its suffering from a low power condition. Lets take a hypothetical scenario that Amperage on the 3.3V line will dive before the 12V line. If this is indeed the case and the fans are unable to spin up like they need to. The console itself is using less than half the power it did at launch. After the 66% efficient PSU (cheap is my guess) the console will probably only dispating about 60W of power at full operation. So in this case a significant amount of energy ought to be able to disipate naturally from the vents and even if the internal temperatures rise it will only do so until it reaches equilibrium which I doubt will be enough to cause long term problems so long as it is adequately ventilated. |
It's pretty much what I was saying: it shouldn't (in the sense of "it is desirable that it won't") overheat.
But that's pretty much what the MS support desk says that actually happens, when they state that some of the consoles that end up in assistance (for serious failures, I assume) have had troubles with the laser diode and the fans malfunctioning due to the unstable power supply. I'm ready to chalk this up to a clueless support desk employee, of course.
I was just underlining that the power brick being easily replaceable wouldn't make this any less of a design blunder, if it was true.
