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 After being modestly harassed for covering the Xbox360 $1 Billion warranty extension, we were still left scratching our heads, given that Microsoft went out of its way to NOT be forthcoming as to exactly what the design flaw in the Xbox360 was. It is really no secret in the community that the flaw revolved around inadequate cooling for the graphics LSI. Vast anecdotal testimony on numerous blogs illustrates this point on a grand scale. Still, it's nice to see that Nikkei's Tech-On portal decided to perform a moderately scientific analysis. We tend to agree with these guys. An 80-90c temperature differential on the LSI heatsink is a wee bit too much. Worse, however, is that they found no attempts to mitigate this problem on a repaired Xbox360 console. Tech-On reports... Finally, we opened the chassis of the Xbox 360 repaired in May 2007 and compared it with the other Xbox 360 we purchased in late 2005. "Huh? The heat sinks and fans are completely identical, aren't they?" To our surprise, the composition of the repaired Xbox 360 looked completely the same as that of the Xbox 360 purchased in late 2005. It turned out that Microsoft provided repair without changing the Xbox 360's thermo design at least until May 2007. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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