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    Xbox 360 Falcon Chips arrive, but will they stop overheating?

    If you've picked up one of the new Halo 3 Xbox 360 consoles, you may be interested to hear that they include the new 65nm Falcon CPUs, which are supposed to reduce power consumption, thus meaning that there should be less heat output...right?
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    Re: Xbox 360 Falcon Chips arrive, but will they stop overheating?

    so there is still overheat issues? LOL i dont think there is a solution at all in fixing the 3 red lights

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    Re: Xbox 360 Falcon Chips arrive, but will they stop overheating?

    From what I can gather, when it comes to 3-red lights and over heating issues, it is the GPU and not the CPU that is mainly to blame. With the GPU unchanged then it makes sense that this issue will continue at some level.
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    Re: Xbox 360 Falcon Chips arrive, but will they stop overheating?

    of course there will still be failures; its a new chip not a magic trip. But hopefully the number of failures will fall

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    Re: Xbox 360 Falcon Chips arrive, but will they stop overheating?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dorza View Post
    From what I can gather, when it comes to 3-red lights and over heating issues, it is the GPU and not the CPU that is mainly to blame. With the GPU unchanged then it makes sense that this issue will continue at some level.
    Correct. So many people have been hyping the Falcon as the savior of the 360, but the only real change is the CPU. Until we see the GPU go down to 65nm then the failure's of the 360 will continue.

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