Xbox One can detect and prevent overheating
Xbox's general manager of console development Leo del Castillo told Gizmodo that while Microsoft can't stop misuse of the console, or people blocking fans, it can at least anticipate and prevent any harm.
The Xbox One has been designed to detect its own temperature and adjust automatically to avoid overheating.
"The way we designed the box, we don't actually intend it to ever have to go to maximum speed under normal environmental conditions. But there is overhead," Castillo said.
"With the architecture of the Xbox One... we can dial back the power of the box considerably," he continued. "We had a little less flexibility with the 360. So basically, if we couldn't dissipate the heat, there wasn't a whole lot of leverage we could pull to keep the heat from being generated, so we had a limited amount of time before it just shut down.
"Xbox One can actually dial it back to a lower power state, so low in fact that it can in a mode that uses virtually no air flow."
How the depletion of power will affect the user remains unknown, but del Castillo says "we try to be as transparent to the user as possible. We'll allow the fan to go all the way up to maximum speed. They might notice the extra noise, and that will help to self-correct the condition." If that's not enough, "we have the mechanism, the interface, to deal with that," del Castillo added.
Microsoft made another change to its user policy earlier this week as chief Xbox One platform architect Marc Whitten revealed that Kinect is not required for the console to function.
The Xbox One launches in November, but Australian fans can go hands-on with the console at the EB Games Expo in October, while Microsoft is teasing unique exclusives to be revealed at Gamescom later this month.
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sir_grecoPosted:
wPyrexify I guess it's just going to turn out like the 360 when they all got recalled because of overheating problem now the Xbox one is going to get recalled because it can't handle all the s h I t their putting on it
in what way did they just say that they couldnt handle it? please tell me. they just told us they made the console itself, have a detection system to cool itself down, If it ever got to that point. did you even read the article...
-RawPosted:
AoPKellogg I got a RROD once... but then I found that I just plugged in my hard drive wrong and corrected it and my xbox was fine.
That's not rrod
wPyrexifyPosted:
I guess it's just going to turn out like the 360 when they all got recalled because of overheating problem now the Xbox one is going to get recalled because it can't handle all the s h I t their putting on it
CarloochPosted:
Lets hope the use decent thermal paste and heat sink. The 360 could detect when your xbox was overheating, the fans would kick up and if that wasn't enough it would give you 1 red ring, 0011,0022,0013 with the secondary codes if I remember correctly.
LWRPosted:
-Dream RROD was never a problem. I've had my xbox 360 since around 2008 or so. So 5 years it's only happened once. Keep in mind I leave it on almost all day/all night on accident. And it's the original. The only time it RROD'd on me was because of a new beta test that ruined it.
I had the original Xbox for years and it worked so well, then i upgraded to the slim but there not much difference!
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