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Title: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: adiment on 11 March 2006, 04:31

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Someone has been falling down on the job

               For those that may have been having heat-up issues with your Xbox 360, some folks from the German Xbox modding scene (http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496524?www.dailytech.com) have encountered what may be the cause of some of those problems.

They uncovered that some Xbox 360 units have been shipping with the protective foil left in place that covers the GPU heatsink compound during shipping from the manufacturer. With the foil in place, heat cannot be properly transferred from the ATI GPU to the heatsink.

This protective layer is probably placed by the manifacturer of the heatsink and is used to protect the heat transfer pad from dust, but should normally be removed just prior installing the heatsink on the GPU. The way it's installed now by MS the GPU chip makes contact with the protection foil instead of the heat transfer pad. This can of course cause cooling issues for the graphics chip as for optimal cooling performance there should just be a thin layer of thermal pad between the GPU chip and heatsink.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1193

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Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: Dark_Me on 11 March 2006, 05:05

Thats just... stupid. Don't they go through a quality check or something? I mean, somwhere along the line this should have been caught by someone.

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: Lead Head on 11 March 2006, 06:04

I heard the the foil is the thermal transfer material....

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 11 March 2006, 13:31

I don't think so, normally the thermal transfer material is an electrical insulator to isolate the heat sink from the chip substrate unless the thermal pad on the case isn't electrically connected to the die.

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: piratePenguin on 11 March 2006, 14:02

They've just topped their hidden files mess!

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: Dark_Me on 11 March 2006, 14:05

I don't think MS is ever going to live this down.
EDIT:It seems Slashdot got ahold of it (http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/03/10/2258252.shtml).

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: Lead Head on 11 March 2006, 17:06

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496524?www.dailytech.com (http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496524?www.dailytech.com)

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: Dark_Me on 11 March 2006, 18:15

Quote from: Lead Head

I heard the the foil is the thermal transfer material....

Enterly possible except for the fact that 360's have been found without the pad on them. It's in that link to the thread you posted.

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: Pathos on 13 March 2006, 06:04

http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2006/03/10/533618.aspx

its by design

Title: Re: Whoops - Some XBOX 360s Shipped With Foil on Heatsink
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 20 March 2006, 04:00

Some design ... piece of shit as always coming from M$