Hostile17 said:
I disagree. I know only one other person that hasn't had their 360 brake down at some point. Its not a case of if but when unfortunately. Saying that I am still loving the 360 experience.
quite frankly, thats just not true, again, as the discussion has happened with millions of other items for a long time. people come in the gfx forum with a dead sapphire card and talk non stop about how bad sapphire are, they did a search and could only find people with problems with sapphire cards and the killer, most important thing they ever say is " i can't find any people saying how good they are". to which the reply is "thats because people post on HELP forums when they HAVE PROBLEMS, not when their component is working fine".
people with working consoles do not have issues, and do not post threads saying," please help me, my console is fine " followed by a 10 page thread of desperate unhappy people saying "my console is fine, i don't know what to do".
i'll be fair, i haven't had mine long, but so what.
my personal feeling is most people(i said most) with more than 1 dead console are doing something wrong. dust free cabinet, what does that mean exactly, enclosed cabinet? in which case you would very likely have VERY high temps as anyone can tell putting their hand behind the console, its a freaking heat machine. another fair point is that if M$ are only sending out repaired and not garenteed to fail, but a higher failure rate then some people are going to get screwed. but thats life, EVERYTHING, every product on earth, nothing excluded, has failures. even nature with hundreds of millions of years of evolution screws up sometimes, thats life. whoever gets the failures will not be happy, but every single product you've ever bought which worked fine there was someone out there feeling the same way you do now about the 360.
i do think there is a design flaw with the xbox360, and thats just heat, and lack of decent airflow, the heatsink layout is awful, the gpu sink is insanely small, the two fans are too small and run too fast and too loud. so if somethings running hot anybody running it in a small space, cabinet or hot part of a room might be in trouble, but thats a similar thing to a lot of top end hardware. it wouldn't really have mattered if the console was 1-2cm taller, but that would mean bigger fans, more airflow less noise. loads of people run them verticle, thats fine, but look where most of the air comes in, you're killing airflow, and if you have the hard drive in that kills the other sides airflow.
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Apparently they didn't really fix this in the Elite SKU either, some guys bought it early and gutted the console, they found that the attempted changes at the problem were laughable - transistors being moved here and there, without any real meaning as to why.