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Ben Heck tests Xbox 360 Falcon: cooler than 2007 Zephyr model

Posted Feb 1, 2008 at 3:43AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Ben Heckendorn, GPU, Microsoft, modder, motherboards, xbox 360 titles

Benjamin Heckendorn (Ben Heck) has been at it again. He wanted to see whether the new Falcon-type Xbox 360 still has overheating issues so he tinkered with a brand new Falcon and tested it against a Zephyr Xbox 360 in a laptop-type environment.

The Zephyr he used is a 2007 model of the Xbox 360 Elite. It's the model that sports HDMI support and a new heatsink. Taking apart the Falcon, he found that, aside from the 65nm CPU, the motherboard also sports a much simpler aluminum heatsink than the Zephyr.

He took out the Falcon's motherboard and played Gears of War on it while taking a temperature scan. The pictures above show the minimum heat levels Heck was able to record with the GPU and CPU, respectively. But as for peak heat levels, he found that the GPU still shoots up to as high as 140 degrees Fahrenheit, while the CPU is cooler, peaking at 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Zephyr's CPU can shoot up to 150 degrees, so the Falcon (shooting up to a maximum of 110) is a significant improvement. As for the GPU, Heck believes that it still sports the 90nm chip, so the heat's still rather high so basically it's only the CPU that's generating less heat than the previous model.

Still, as Ben Heck remarks, "it's a great step forward," and "once the GPU goes 65nm (hopefully this year) the thing will be so cool it will no longer double as a space heater."

Via Ben Heck

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0.1% Is hoping for a lot. I think the current failure rate is still closer to 30%. Still, if they are able to get at least a 3%-5% failure rate (like the ps2 had around launch) I will consider buying another 360. My first one broke and I traded it in just before they extended the warranty to 3 years.

# .......Not really — Kingofdaberbz 2008-02-01 17:47

The falcons only have a 10%faliure rate ,but TheRocknes u may be right if your considering consoles sold too.If u go out n buy a 360 2day you'll get a falcon,which only has a 10% failure rate,and as 360 sales go up the 360 failure rates thx

2 falcon.Also, if the falcon only has a 10% failure rate with only a smaller cpu,and the cpu isn't the prob btw,imagine when the jasper come out.RRoD is caused by the gpu being 2 big ms is fixing that prob with the jasper.So no gpu prob no more RRoD,so as I said the jaspers failure rate should be below 1%. The overall the 360 failure rate should be around 2-5% in a couple years only cuz the original 360s(zephyr) are already on the market. n p.s. McAwesome go hump a Playstation u Playslave

# .. — blkthunda 2008-02-01 18:13

wow you get very defensive huh?

# lol — Kingofdaberbz 2008-02-01 18:21

me? no lol I only speak the truth.

# Xbox 360 Space heater — ShadowMechachu 2008-02-01 19:01

Hehe, When I Game for extended periods of time, it gets 10 Deegrees Hotter in my room, Because of my TV And My 360. Hehe. lol...

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