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12-05-2006, 18:24
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New cooler-running Xbox 360 on its way
Although most people - including us - love our HD Xbox 360s to bits, there is one thing we probably all wish we could change: the amount of racket made by its cooling fans. The 90 nanometre CPU installed in the current Xbox 360s runs notoriously hot (a problem that caused numerous failures among launch-day consoles), and so needs to be cooled by some seriously overworked and noisy built-in fans.
But it appears that a solution could be in the offing. Chartered SemiConductor Manufacturing, which makes the CPU chipsets for the console, has revealed that it's developed a new 65-nanometer silicon-on-insulator technology that should drastically reduce both the heat produced by the console and the noise produced by the fans, as well as reducing the console's general power consumption levels.
The bad news is that production models using the new 65nm tech likely won’t appear until next January or February, so if you were thinking of waiting until Microsoft had solved its overheating issues before you bought your 360, it looks like you can write off 2006!
Fonte: www.homecinemachoice.com
New cooler-running Xbox 360 on its way
Although most people - including us - love our HD Xbox 360s to bits, there is one thing we probably all wish we could change: the amount of racket made by its cooling fans. The 90 nanometre CPU installed in the current Xbox 360s runs notoriously hot (a problem that caused numerous failures among launch-day consoles), and so needs to be cooled by some seriously overworked and noisy built-in fans.
But it appears that a solution could be in the offing. Chartered SemiConductor Manufacturing, which makes the CPU chipsets for the console, has revealed that it's developed a new 65-nanometer silicon-on-insulator technology that should drastically reduce both the heat produced by the console and the noise produced by the fans, as well as reducing the console's general power consumption levels.
The bad news is that production models using the new 65nm tech likely won’t appear until next January or February, so if you were thinking of waiting until Microsoft had solved its overheating issues before you bought your 360, it looks like you can write off 2006!
Fonte: www.homecinemachoice.com