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ecurbj on 25 June 2008
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Squilliam said:
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.

Thanks for adding that. I feel so much better after hearing that. I totally forgot about the heatpipe. I thought they took that feature out of the new Falcon motherboard and added a brand new heatsink for the 65nm CPU.

But your right here is a pic of the added heatpipe within the Falcon motherboard Xbox 360:

See above. The heatsink on the far left is the GPU heatsink and is simply flat in width like a GameInformer magazine.

DVD drives can fail awesome considering the DVD drive houses right on top of the GPU heatsink and the heat is likely heating up the bottom of the DVD drive.