that might disturb the airflow and increase hot spots in the machine, so without extra fans the cooling usually is better if the engineers did a good job

I was thinking of placing it on a laptop fan pad. the ones the cool the bottom on the Ps4. I think that will have a positve effect.

That's actually a red speed stripe. My computer gets the same thing when I block off all the ventilation. Makes it run faster.

So is there a reason its called 'of death' in the title? Dramas sake?

Well I think is pretty obvious if you put it in a closed plastic case. duh, the cool thing about it after some ventilation it returned to normal, not like the previous consoles on this case the 360 when it got a 3RROD pretty much your console is death for good.

I really hope that Sony doesnt have problems.

But the one of the reasons Microsoft chose not to use GDDR5 was because of excessive power consumption and heat. Especially during playing of a game. If you look at the size of Nvidias GPU's that sport just 4gb GDDR5 they have MASSIVE cooling and have high power consumption

I guess people don't expect their consoles to overheat with such an enclosed space and without any ventilation. lol!

Yea, because the GPU consumes a lot of power and outputs a lot of heat - that's not caused by the GDDR5 on the card like you seem to imply.

Nonsense. PS4 uses low power gddr5 chips. Coupled with address and data bus inversion, the memory in the PS4 actually uses LESS power than the memory in the XBox One. Read the data sheets.

MS fanboys are getting deperate :D

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