Squilliam on 25 June 2008
| ecurbj said: Again the Xbox 360 has a poor cooling design over the GPU heatsink. The GPU in the Xbox 360 is 90nm and the GPU heatsink is as thin as a magazine. No help there cooling the GPU off. Like I said the main culprit for the 360 getting a RRoD is mainly the GPU overheating. Plus, Microsoft rushed the 360 to the market and as a result, poor design inside the console. I'm happy with my console. I have the Falcon CPU. I still have the 90 GPU but my disks and the console feel so warm and not hot like the previous Xbox 360's I owned. So no worries here, I know once I here that Microsoft is releasing the Jasper GPU (65nm) then I will trade my existing 360 in for the Jasper console. |
Actually the current design has heat pipe cooling as well. The lower ambient temps from the CPU shrink in Falcon and the GPU heatsink buff up are a pretty good combination together.
The GPU certainly also contributes to the death of the Dvd drives as well.
Tease.
