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My 3rd 360 died, due to a 5.5 hr marathon of LOTR gaming by my brother.
My first one died in the same method, though it was Kameo that held his interest.

Needless to say, I won't be online the next few days. I'll miss you, Clyde.




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Holy %U)#$

Mine died from E3. I was downloading crap all day for a week, which caused it to start locking up. Then it died while playing the MotoGP demo.

Now I'm seriously looking into the cooling devices for that sucker. Anybody know which ones actually help?

My never died MOOHHAA. Even after 10-15 hours of play.
(try this)
I never used a fan for my 360, but some of my friends did. They say it worked.

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Where do you live the Arctic Circle? I'm stuck in Hawaii (no AC). Seen that, but with all the hot ass air blowing out the back the wall 6" behind it gets hot. Not sure more fans in the back would help.

I do a ghetto trick of putting 25 disk spindles under it when it is really hot and that does help, considering the bottom gets hotter than the top. I keep my 360 horizontal due to my 5yr old bro. He already knocked over my PS2 (and that was horizontal too). Considering a laptop cooler. Anybody tried those?

Heard the vertical stand cooler thing was crap though (by a friend who works at GameStop).

Hopefully #4 will be ok for longer than 2.5, which is literally the lifespan of each of my consoles so far. They gave me free service on every console so far which is nice. I don't mind so much, though I will have Dead Rising arriving tomorrow, and staring at it for a week will be heartbreaking.

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Nope. I live in N.Y. And the 360 was fine with the heat wave.
I keep my 360 horizontal too ,As I don't want it falling.
(Make sure your 360 isn't a soild object as it starts sucking up dirt. Space it out alittle and give it some room.

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Well my first one was off the first line. Think the manufacture date was Oct. 8th or something. Waited all night in the rain outside Circuit S--tty. Only we had to wait a week as they didn't get any in.

Don't get me started...

How was the turnaround? From the time it died till I got my new one was 23 days, including troubleshooting, calling, shipping etc.

The turnaround on my first one was 6 business days. They sent me a new one after they received confirmation the broken one was on it's way.

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That sucks. Sorry to hear that. I suffered the same fate recently (as I posted here at Ninjabee, begging for a delay ). Now I've got a seperate fan just to move air behind my entertainment center so that any hot air being pushed out the back of my 360 isn't nullified by the general heat. I do try to keep it under 80 degrees in the room (with A/C) whenever I run it for any longer period of time. I think the kiss of death for mine was booting it with an ambient temp of around 84 degrees.

Anyway...I know that some people (like you) have been super unlucky a bunch of times, and then others that have NEVER had problems...it's strange.

I'm curious to see how hot the PS3 runs in comparison, considering the CELL is gonna be a heat monster in my estimation. Anyone know for sure if the PS3's power supply is gonna be inside the box (as is implied in the current pics)? Guess we'll know for sure in November.

Probably won't have to worry about that with the Wii though.

I'm expecting problems for the PS3 as well. Good thing i'm refraining from buying one for a while.

Anything Nintendo is a quality purchase though.

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I have had mine since the first week of December, and I play long gaming sessions as well (spent a good 12 hours straight with it on Prey, but only played about 8 hours of it), and have never had a problem. Occasional lock-ups playing some things, especially Full Auto, but never the 3 red lights. My 360 is vertical and my power supply is behind my TV entangled in a mess of cords. It has about 2 inches from the TV, and 6 from the side of the entertainment center. I do have a yearlong warranty on it though, so my plan is to somehow mess it up in the last month of the warranty so I can get a new one just in case that one decides to mess up right after warranty (happened with my original Xbox, though I fixed it).

Mine has always worked fine. The only problem I've had is sometimes when I insert Perfect Dark Zero it'll tell me to put it in a 360 (which it already is).

My NES from 87 still runs great, heck, so does my calecovision.

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I have done many, many long sessions with my 360 that runs it for an easy 10 hours. Especially recently with Dead Rising.

I have it horizontal on a metal rack, so it is vented on all sides. A good amount away from the wall behind it as well so no hot air blown out will get back to it. My power brick is right next to it.

No problems at all. Not even much freezing except for a couple on Full Auto. But not nearly as much as most people complain about in many games. No dirty disk errors, etc.

My room has been about 78-80 recently because of a major heat wave here in NC, but I usually keep it at about 75.

Also, I got my console sometime in January, I think.

My 360 sits vertical on an empty desk, complete freedom in every direction but down. 360 is just not that well made (in my experience, anyway.)

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