

Bill Gates says Xbox 360 reliability will go from zero to hero








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By Ard on 1/13/2008 3:17:03 PM , Rating: 0
Sorry to rain on your parade, fanboy, but Falcon/Zephyr has done very little to combat the RRoD. Why? Because RRoD is largely a GPU problem and Falcon/Zephyr is a CPU shrink. In either case, 15-20% is still WAY too high for any sane individual.

By Zelvek on 1/13/2008 4:18:28 PM , Rating: 2
Actually the RRoD is basically the general error code for any failure of the 360, just like FRAG was on the xbox so even a failed power brick will cause it. The common GPU RRoD is a combination of things and not just a hot GPU, although cooling is the common factor.

1. poor cooling (especially for the GPU)
2. poor quality solder (thank you green peace for making us use environmentally friendly and useless solder)
3. poor quality retention brackets

The poor cooling can warp the PCB this coupled with poor retention of the GPU causes the contacts of the GPU to disconnect from the PCB. The other cause is from the poor temperature threshold of the solder that was used this causes the solder to crack overtime (this is why the towel trick works its sort of like a cold solder)

The new systems have beefed up the cooling replaced the poor quality solder and epoxied the CPU and GPU to the PCB. So it would seem that they have tackled all the issues.

