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when i had my PS3 is was hotter than the 360, so hot it was hot to touch the end vent for any period of time (had it standing vertical)
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it is, probably due to the better exhaust of heat from the much better designed heatsinks and cooler in the PS3, after all you don't hear many PS3 fail due to overheating do you!
we'll have to see when they get some games to play...
that very reason didn't stop xbox's dying left right and centre the first 12mths.
I doubt many games will push as hard as folding@home tbh.
i thought folding at home uses 10% of cpu
source ?
it seems to be very good at folding if thats true
id expect the ps3 to have a greater heat output with the hdd deep inside and the PSU inside it though
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yup , thats why its cheaper for customers to buy
when you add up all the things the ps3 isnt overpriced at all
if anything it was just released too early , should have came out about now when more games are starting to appear
imo the 360 should have came out allot later too , the xbox and ps2 where no where near dead
I see the PS3 as not just a console, bluray player & media centre but also as a portable heater, when it gets to winter I don't think I'll need to have the central heating on the amount of heat mine is generating, so really it's also a cost saving device 
The PS3 does get hot around the vents, and the air coming out is very warm, but aint that the point? The only part of my PS3 that gets hot is the air vents, so surely the heating system is doing a good job of removing the heat generated inside the PS3 and dumping outside. The thermal shutdown protection is quite good on the PS3, i think there a 3 different phases, depends on the LED colour and flashes, cant remember the exact specs, apart from if it turns off all of sudden and the LED goes red then leave it off for a while to cool down. This prevents permanent damage to CPU/ GPU through overheating.
My Playstation3 throws out WAY more heat than my Xbox360. This is something I've mentioned many times in the past.
Which is hotter to the touch? (case)
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The PS3 does get pretty damn hot, but the 360 just deals with heat in a different way...
I think the PS3's cooling is far, far superior. It makes little to no noise for a start, and any flaws in the design would have been rooted out in the first week or so of the Folding@Home project. The reason it seems to be very hot is because it is using very large copper heatsinks, with fans to drive it out the ventilation shafts. The copper heatsinks is also why the Playstion 3 was slightly fattened over the course of its development, with more ventilation shafts included (the console shown at E3 2005 is thinner than its current iteration). The heatsinks contribute significantly to the console's weight also - it's heavy, solid and sturdy, which really is just an indicator that Sony did not skimp in any way at all on the cooling, and have taken it seriously.
33% failure rate of the 360 against the PS3's 0.01% failure rate says it all.
33% failure rate of the 360 against the PS3's 0.01% failure rate says it all.
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Where the vent is? Playstation3.
The top of the PS3 never gets warm though, however where the vent is it's terrible, whereas my Xbox360 is hot (at the vent) it doesn't feel like it's throwing the heat out like the Playstation3.
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ps3's do get very toasty. they dont seem to mind it though. but its nothing, really. the can survive in very high temperatures but anyway....if you think a ps3 is bad, you would throw a fit at the heat my onkyo puts out. im not kidding when i say youd have a hard time even resting your hand on the top of the casing when it's being pushed. but then, again, they handle it fine. heat isnt a problem when the components are designed to withstand it. the ps3 undoubtedly runs a lot warmer than a 360 but as long as its well ventilated - no problems.
I'd be highly skeptical of that, if it's the case then Cell is one hell of a processor.
perhaps you mean 10% of the gpu?