For all you 360 owners, as you may know the 360 suffers from running too hot. Recently my 360 has been crashing alot and I thought id need to get it replaced. It was stood upright (better cooling IMO) but sandwiched between by Tv and PS2.

For the last 3 days Its been stood upright in a open space and It was noticable that it didnt crash as much (twice in 3days). You can buy 'intercoolers' that clip onto the back and they are ment to be the dogs danglies at solving this problem - Although they are NOT an offical Xbox product. There about £15 from places like GameStation or Play.com

Anyone else noticed this or bought an intercooler for there 360?

 

Had mine a couple of weeks now and touch wood its been fine both standing up and lying down!

 

I bought an intercooler from Play just to be safe....worth the £15 imho

 

The GRS/Kenlowe option is supposed to be a good upgrade

 

had mine over a year now laid down
not had a problem

 

IIRC microsoft has said its better laying it down

 

Fuck that i wouldnt pay that much money for something that has a problem i have to pay to fix....Get fooked take it back and get the reddies

 

had mine for a year laid flat, never a problem

 

Hmm might try that... if not I'll buy the intercooler, does it just clip on?

 

lye it flat and move the power pack away but make sure they are both well ventilated

 

had mine since june in a tv stand laid flat with sheves above it.must admit it does get hot in there but never had a prob with the unit.may look into the intercooler.



so now you can chip consoles and fit intercoolers.so whats next lowering them?

 

I've had my 360 for absolute ages now and it is boxed in next to other bits and pieces the back is virtually against the wall and it is left on for days at a time and i've never ever had any problems whatsoever and it is standing up

I'm thinking you just have a dud of a machine as you couldn't get more enclosed in than mine it has a mini fridge bang next to it running all the time and dvd,video,sky stacked up next to it and all in a cabinet so no air goes near it... can you not send it in for warrenty repair?


Martin

 

I had a little trouble with mine freezing in some games so i started building them into clear cases and adding extra fans and ive never had a problem since everyone loves them so if your interested in having it done pm me cheeRS.

 

Thats what you call modded

 

ive just had mine replaced by microsoft last week, mine started freezing and crashing all the time, then it wouldnt load games, and kept saying, this is an xbox 360 disc, please put it in an xbox 360 , new one has froze once since i got it, ive got mine laid down, may buy an intercooler see if it makes a difference.

 

 

I had problems with my one freezing and got so bad that it wouldnt even fire up! Just kept on getting the dreaded 3 red lights

I bought it off ebay over a year ago and had no receipt or guarantee but thought i would try Microsoft and see what they said about it.....had it collected from me on 15th Dec and was taken away for repair and got a new console delivered back to me on Wed

Proper chuffed to get it sorted for fook all

I also bought a cooling fan for mine and always have it laid flat and kept well ventilated, heard a rumour that it was something to do with the first batch of consoles that were made had something dodgy fitted inside them from a cheap supplier that isnt up to standard and Microsoft changed the part for a better quality one and so far i think the newer batch of consoles have been trouble free.

 

had mine about 8 months, last week it has started freezing on the first screen gutted.

 

i got an intercooler on mine and its been fine, gets a lot of use too

 

Mine gets hammered but im not paying £15 for something microsoft should provide!

Mines still fully guarenteed so il wait till the 11 months period is here then send it back with a fault

Then il get it chipped

 

lie it flat not upright ..on the floor

with at least 2 dvd covers the book end jobbys .

under both sides and imo you wont have a problem

flat on the floor its not a happy bunny

 

i notice they sell a core pack without a hard drive and a premium with one



so do they work without a hard drive then?

 

yes but you cant download any games so its useless without one really

 

Have u tried a bumper cut out and bad boy bonnet?

 

has anyone got the microsoft number for faulty units?

ive got one that wont load games, presume fsulty cd drive, but its just out of warrenty and lost receipt so gonna get the wife to call em and try her luck ya never know

 

i am thinking of getting one and chipping it up

will the intercooler be a must for a chipped 360?

 

http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=86249

 

I know someone who got a brand new imported PS3, fired it up and it keeps freezing. LOL

 

they all sound shite

i wanted a 360 aswell

 

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