Yesterday, I got the newest print catalog from ThinkGeek.Com. Upon looking at their newest T-shirts, I discovered the shirt that many Xbox 360 owners need...
And yes, I AM allowed to say it... I've owned an Xbox 360 for about 2 years! And while I have NOT experienced the dreaded RROD myself (most likely owing to my winning combination of using a Nyko Intercooler since Day 1 and hooking my Xbox 360 up to a STANDARD DEFINITION TV, which means that the graphics chips aren't having to push around nearly as many pixels, thus keeping them from getting too hot), my best friend bought his a couple months AFTER I bought mine and he's already had 1 warranty replacement. But then again, his original one was, at that time, a brand-new, redesigned unit that Microsoft had engineered to be incompatible with the Intercoolers that were available at that time. So, from "birth" to "death", his system was used WITHOUT the cooling fans necessary to keep it from roasting itself to death. Add on top of that the fact that he was running it on his HDTV in full 1080p resolution, and that's a recipe for a RROD if ever there was one! He has since solved that problem on the replacement unit, having added the necessary cooling fans as soon as he got it back from Microsoft (as by that time, new models had become available that circumvented Microsoft's "fix" that prevented them from working.)
And yes, I AM allowed to say it... I've owned an Xbox 360 for about 2 years! And while I have NOT experienced the dreaded RROD myself (most likely owing to my winning combination of using a Nyko Intercooler since Day 1 and hooking my Xbox 360 up to a STANDARD DEFINITION TV, which means that the graphics chips aren't having to push around nearly as many pixels, thus keeping them from getting too hot), my best friend bought his a couple months AFTER I bought mine and he's already had 1 warranty replacement. But then again, his original one was, at that time, a brand-new, redesigned unit that Microsoft had engineered to be incompatible with the Intercoolers that were available at that time. So, from "birth" to "death", his system was used WITHOUT the cooling fans necessary to keep it from roasting itself to death. Add on top of that the fact that he was running it on his HDTV in full 1080p resolution, and that's a recipe for a RROD if ever there was one! He has since solved that problem on the replacement unit, having added the necessary cooling fans as soon as he got it back from Microsoft (as by that time, new models had become available that circumvented Microsoft's "fix" that prevented them from working.)
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