Five Short Tips For Keeping Your Xbox 360 Cool
In order to get a jump on the competition, the Xbox 360 was rushed to completion far too rapidly. The legacy of this is that over 30 percent of these machines have a red ring of death breakdown. The Xbox 360 is a fragile device due to poor design and manufacture.
It has a cooling system that's ineffective with absolutely no extra capacity to speak of. When it gets too hot, one or more of it's design 'bugs' spring to life and eventually kills your machine. Therefore it is important to keep your Xbox cool in order to prolong its operational life.
This article will discuss the ways that you can go about keeping your Xbox 360 cool.
1.) While you may not intentionally block the ventilation openings, there are other ways of effectively doing the same thing. These involve placing the Xbox on soft shaggy surfaces which act to block air currents.
2.) Be careful to place the Xbox in an environment that is well ventilated. This means that the Xbox should not be placed in cabinets, bookcases, racks, or any other confined spaces. It certainly doesn't make any sense to exercise great care in keeping the cooling vents open while placing the machine in a confined space where air can't reach it. Oversights like this are commonplace because most people tend to place things in a way that saves space.
3.) Try placing your Xbox on it's side which exposes more of it's surface area to the surrounding air. You could also point a small fan at your console.
4.) Keep the Xbox away from any sources of heat such as heaters, very warm electronics, stoves, radiators and furnaces. In addition to these obvious sources, be careful not to allow direct sunlight to reach it.
5.) As important as it is to keep the Xbox ventilated, let's not forget that the power brick also requires adequate ventilation. It's a very natural thing to put the power brick down on the floor. However, if it is placed on soft shaggy carpets, cooling air currents will be blocked. The best option is placing it up off the floor onto a surface that is level and hard.
The tips given above are intended to be prevention measures that should be taken when your Xbox is brand new. However if your Xbox has been shut down for the first time by overheating, it wouldn't hurt to try them. Hopefully this first time heat build up shut down the Xbox before any real damage could be done.
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