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How To Keep Your Xbox 360 From Overheating
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Want to avoid the Red Rings of Death (RROD)? Everyone does, but it’s almost a guarantee that it will happen if you have an older Xbox 360. With these tips, though, you shouldn’t see the RROD for a while.
- Keep your Xbox 360 clean. Make sure you dust your system weekly, this is especially important if you have pets.
- Keep it off of other appliances. Sometimes people, like myself, stack electronics on top of each other, but do not do that with the Xbox 360! You should keep it on its on shelf.
- Do not put it on the carpet. You should never keep the Xbox 360 or its power brick on the carpet because hair and dust can be sucked into the console.
- Do not play it for extended periods on time. Try to keep your gaming time under four hours. After that time turn it off for about 45 minutes and let it rest and cool back down.
- Do not have the Xbox 360 turned on in extreme conditions. If your AC is broken and its extremely hot in the room the 360 is in do not play the system. It has a greater chance to overheat that way.
3 Comments
peta cavanagh
October 5th, 2008
at 2:52pm
will try that..i have it on my bunk, (which is always cold) i have open window in ma room for at least 5 minutes b4 turning it on and playing it, and i play it vertically, with around 1foot of space on all sides, i always play about 2hours at a tym, and play around, 4-6hours a day
wat r my chances of my 360 overheating?
email me on psychic_101@hotmail.co.uk
woz
November 5th, 2008
at 12:47pm
this is crap man! i mean, i wanna play for more than four hours at a time, i also want to stack it on top of other electricals, i also, sometimes want to play it on the carpet, i need it to work on hot days too, so basically what your’e telling us ,is, to shoot the bastard thing! i want my money back you freaking Jap idea stealers, can’t even copy someother companys’ hardware shit!! shit shit.
gamer lol
June 17th, 2009
at 5:44am
I really hope this works. im gonna get my xbox 360 for the summer vacation and i want it to last as long as possible.