PS3 causes 360 to Overheat in Confined Space |
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HanFei ![]() Team KmA ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 798 |
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Hope you guys enjoy! This is an old, but still funny, excerpt from the blog below:
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8093480&publicUserId=5345401 Not to hate on my friend's 360, I love playing on it too... haha My PS3 just killed my 360Posted: 2007-05-02I keep my PS3 and my Xbox 360 in an entertainment unit in the living room. It's a big wooden thing with glass doors, and while it looks cool, I guess it's not exactly what I'd call well ventilated. ![]() Anyway, this morning at some ungodly hour, both my kids got up and wanted to play video games. My older son wanted to play Cars while my little guy wanted to watch, and fiddle with another controller while pretending to play. The pretend option turned out to be the Sixaxis ![]() Now, the 360 on it's own doesn't run so hot that it can't handle being in the entertainment unit with the door shut. I've had it on for hours and hours and hours before, and it never gets so hot that the fan goes into turbo bastard mode. The PS3, on the other hand, is another story. If I keep that sucker in a confined space for too long, I fear for the safety of my family. ![]() ![]() So (back to the narrative) while pretending to play along with his brother, my little guy hits the PS button, and the PS3 springs to life, inside the closed entertainment unit, unbeknown to Mrs. D and myself. Needless to say, temperatures rise, fans kick in, then more fans kick in, then some new, untold level of nuclear reactor-grade cooling ![]() Conditions in the confined space had become so super-heated that the 360 red-ringed out, big time. ![]() So. Bottom line, my PS3 killed my 360. I have learned a very valuable lesson from this. ![]() |
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XKaL1buR ![]() FnA ![]() Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 962 |
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Ha ha! Fatality Bish! xD
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HanFei ![]() Team KmA ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 798 |
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Glad you enjoyed it!
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XKaL1buR ![]() FnA ![]() Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 962 |
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Funny story. Never heard it before. Can't believe that actually happened! xD I guess this proves which system really kicks ass huh? LOL
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HanFei ![]() Team KmA ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 798 |
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Ya, look at the PS3 heat sink and blower assemblies! They are basically the freak'n case!
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Phantom ![]() Senior Member ![]() Little Red Wagon Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 99 |
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yeah the same thing happened to me but i just messed with the wires in the back of the 360 and the red ring went away
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