All X-box 360 owners have 3 year warranty if "Red Rings of Death" appear!!!

[Turbo D]

damn bill gates and microsoft corporation 

[GUTS]

I hope they weren't using those stupid Nyko intercoolers, those are known to f*ck systems up.

[Black Tiger]

I hope they weren't using those stupid Nyko intercoolers, those are known to f*ck systems up.

Although I hadn't had any problems with my system, I bought a cooler (don't know if its Nyko) for it just in case.

It worked reallly well and kept my system to only slightly warm at the centre in stead of hot.

But after I installed a shiny black casing, I took apart the cooler to paint it black. After I put it back together I had to loosen one fan because there was a clicking sound. After that I eventually had my system shutdown ocassionally when the loose cooler slipped out too far.

If it clicked in like the power supply plug does it'd be perfect.

[SNKNostalgia]

You are really better off just using a regular small external room fan going to the air intake of the system around open space. Those inter coolers draw off the power of the system/adapter. It can cause power fluctuations and drag it down some. Buy some external 12V whisper fans if you want a better outflow from the back of the system.

My trick is that my entertainment center is right above and in front of the central AC vent on the floor. I put my system on a small shelf with lots of open air space that gets direct air from the AC vent. This prevents the system from ever getting too hot. The main issue with detaching CPU and GPU chips = Dead system is the solder joints loosening when the system is too hot then cools down too fast. If the system doesn't get hot to begin with, then that should prevent the problem. Also, the air flow out of the back of the system can build heat against a wall or board behind it and re flow into the system. So definitely have air space behind and to the right of the system if horizontal (It would be unwise to have your system vertical anyways).

This fall they are replacing the 95nm cpu with a 65nm. So that should help with some heat issues. Most likely there will be better heat syncs and some board revisions all together. I would just wait till then to buy a system.