Thursday, February 14th 2008
Xbox 360 Console Failure Rate Forecast: 16.4%
An electronics trading firm recently did some professional analysis, and discovered that the standard Xbox 360 has a 16.4% chance of failing. Out of a sample group including dead 1000 consoles, 60% died due to Red Ring of Death (RRoD). While this is certainly a lot better than the 1/3 chance given during last summer before Microsoft significantly redesigned the layout of the console, it's still pretty high. Both the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii have a failure rate of roughly 3%. The firm did not specify the failure rates of specific Xbox 360 SKUs. If they did, they would have likely found that the "Falcon" Xbox 360, or any Xbox 360 with a 65nm processor or an enhanced cooling solution, would have a much lower failure rate. Speaking of the previous 1/3 failure rate fiasco, the replacement program/3 year warranty has cost Microsoft an estimated $1 billion USD to date.
Source:
Reg Hardware
16 Comments on Xbox 360 Console Failure Rate Forecast: 16.4%
That has to be one of the worst designs for adequate cooling I have ever seen.
If I were microsoft I would fire anyone involved with the box design.
and yes the 360's design is a clear sign that they had engineers designing stuff without proper supervision, you see most engineers i have met are HORRIBLE at the practical side, they just know how to make it work and maby make it look pretty(apple style form over functionality)
see you alwase need somebody babysitting them to keep this kinda thing from happening, with some small tweaks the cooing could be drasticly improved, and this would have been seen with proper testing and super vision.
saw a mod somebody used a cooler from dysan that was for servers to mount on the chips, the fan used was a bit loud but it cooled the system far better then the stock setup.....to bad ms didnt pay somebody to test over the counter coolers insted of to design a cooler that suckes arse :P
this is why i stick with pc, it lasts me longer :)
How did they expect to get adequate heat disapation and removal from a high end graphics system with that setup?
The best thing people could do is gut the 360 chassis and install the components into a regular computer case with proper inpu-output air flow. Even that is not optimal as the heat sinks are nothing to write home about.
I would gut the chassis, put it in a good case and modify a pair of premium coolers to fit the mobo.
Or, in my case, just stick with my PC ;)
and one of these:
starting to look and sound like a computer eh? Now thats what Im talking about.
Forget warranty, here you get watercooling and good airflow.
-Indybird
Heck for this id take a good hard look at the BTX design of Intel and modify it for the 360 lol
its like they took the heat factors of the Celeron 700 in the first xbox and used those for this, how silly
I decided to upgrade visuals and perfomance.
Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=AJvC_KcElkM
Mods:
- Case Window w/ Air Intake Hole
- XCM Fan
- Talismoon Air Duct
- Talismoon Whisper Fans
- Clipped Metal Fan Grill
- White Bezel from Silver
- XCM Drive Window
- Custom Drive LED and Paint
- Blue ROL w/ White Error Lights
- Flashed Drive Firmware
- Alot others not worth mentioning...
There is a noticeable difference just putting your hand behind the console, cooler air and more airflow.