To stay ahead of it’s competitors, Microsoft rushed the production of it’s Xbox 360 product too quickly. Because of this, it has a failure rate of over 30 percent. Due to it’s many built in ‘bugs’, the Xbox 360 is a frail device.

It has a cooling system that barely keeps up with the heat output of it’s circuitry. When it gets too hot, the heat interacts with it’s design flaws which brings about the red ring of death. Therefore it is important to keep your Xbox 360 cool in order to avoid the red ring of death.

This article will discuss different ways to keep your Xbox cool.

Although no one is going to deliberately block the cooling vents, there are many unintentional ways of doing this. These include placing the Xbox on surfaces that block local cooling currents such as pillows, beds, soft rugs and sofas.

Be careful to place the Xbox in an open and well ventilated environment. This means that the Xbox should not be placed in enclosures like cabinets, racks or bookcases. It certainly doesn’t make any sense to exercise great care in keeping the cooling vents open only to place the Xbox in a closed in area. Oversights like this are commonplace because we naturally arrange things in an effort to conserve space.

Try placing your Xbox on it’s side so that it gets greater exposure to the open air. You might also try using a small external fan to cool your console.

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