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CardJoe · 27th Feb 2008, 11:57

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/02...ailure_rates/1

SquareTrade has responded to challenges and released the full details of their report on Xbox 360 failure rates.

Bauul · 27th Feb 2008, 12:03

So actually the RRoD only hit 102 out of 1040, which is 9.8% ish. To be honest, that's lower than I expected, less than one in ten. I thought it'd be up more like one in eight or one in seven.

Narishma · 27th Feb 2008, 12:16

Bauul: As stated in the article, they don't count those broken consoles returned directly to Microsoft, which is what most people do I suppose (at least those people I know). So the failure rate is probably higher than 16%.

hawky84 · 27th Feb 2008, 12:16

My friend works for a returns company he currently has 82 xbox 360s this week on a palet to be checked most of which have been the red ring, but he gets this kind of amount every week and this is just in the south west of the UK

<A88> · 27th Feb 2008, 12:37

Quote:

Failinging

sotu1 · 27th Feb 2008, 13:47

haha...failinging....brings a smile to my face this dreary day!

cjoyce1980 · 27th Feb 2008, 13:49

damn that a lower failure rate than i would expect, microsoft have been working hard.

it took me 4 attempts to find a ps3 that would actual play a blu-ray disc..... still waiting for this one to die

cyrilthefish · 27th Feb 2008, 13:56

i'd like to see what percentage of failed consoles are the older types or the newer versions with a different mobo + HDMI...

I've got the latter and it seems to put out less heat playing games than my 2900XT does on it's own, can't see my one RRoDing anytime soon :P

naokaji · 27th Feb 2008, 13:57

and appropriate cooling would have most likely prevented like 90% of those failures....

Jordan Wise · 27th Feb 2008, 14:18

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Originally Posted by cyrilthefish

it seems to put out less heat playing games than my 2900XT does on it's own, can't see my one RRoDing anytime soon :P

thats like comparing a fire to an oven

DXR_13KE · 27th Feb 2008, 14:52

is it that difficult to create an efficient cooling system with today's technology?

Angleus · 27th Feb 2008, 15:01

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Originally Posted by Jordan Wise

thats like comparing a fire to an oven

Lol nice one, mines the old one and Its still going fine *touch wood*

Dvs98SK · 27th Feb 2008, 15:14

I'm on my third one now. First one had a bad dvd drive second was a rrod and the third one i have now is a piece of crap and i expect it to die at anytime.

Vash-HT · 27th Feb 2008, 16:04

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Originally Posted by cyrilthefish

i'd like to see what percentage of failed consoles are the older types or the newer versions with a different mobo + HDMI...

I've got the latter and it seems to put out less heat playing games than my 2900XT does on it's own, can't see my one RRoDing anytime soon :P

Putting out less heat could actually be a bad thing depending on how much heat is being produced internally. The more heat it puts expels out of the system the less that is trapped inside. This is the problem with the 360, it does not expel heat well at all so a lot of it stays trapped internally. My 360 has RRoD'd once but I haven't had problems since then, but it never put out a lot of heat as compared with my ps3 that heats up my room in like 5 minutes.

rjkoneill · 27th Feb 2008, 16:37

my launch day premium is still going strong
vell ventilated on top of a table cheesecake

Edenalig · 27th Feb 2008, 17:38

2nd 360 in 6 months here, when the UPS guy came to pick up mine he said it was the 6th that week that he had collected in my area and his mate was on his 15th!

yodasarmpit · 27th Feb 2008, 18:05

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Originally Posted by Bauul

So actually the RRoD only hit 102 out of 1040, which is 9.8% ish. To be honest, that's lower than I expected, less than one in ten. I thought it'd be up more like one in eight or one in seven.

A 1 in 10 failure rate is horrendous, that sort of failure rate could put a small to medium company out of business.

completemadness · 27th Feb 2008, 19:32

1 in 10 is definitely awful, the whole RRoD thing is probably whats stopped me buying a 360 in the past, and there's no need these days as the PS3 is more appealing (at least to me)

I wonder how much this whole ordeal has cost MS ....

sui_winbolo · 27th Feb 2008, 20:36

I've owned 2 360s. My first one I got the summer of 2006, it's a 1st gen box. It's still working pretty good, only a few quarks.

I gave that one to my girlfriend since she didn't have a 360 and because I wanted the new Halo 3 360.

The only problems with my 1st one is disk read errors and it scratched her Halo 3 disk. x_x

Amon · 27th Feb 2008, 20:39

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Originally Posted by Joe Martin/Article

failinging

spellinging

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Narishma Multimodder Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 88	Bauul: As stated in the article, they don't count those broken consoles returned directly to Microsoft, which is what most people do I suppose (at least those people I know). So the failure rate is probably higher than 16%.

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completemadness Hypermodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 887	1 in 10 is definitely awful, the whole RRoD thing is probably whats stopped me buying a 360 in the past, and there's no need these days as the PS3 is more appealing (at least to me) I wonder how much this whole ordeal has cost MS ....

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sui_winbolo Network Engineer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bottineau, ND Posts: 1,306	I've owned 2 360s. My first one I got the summer of 2006, it's a 1st gen box. It's still working pretty good, only a few quarks. I gave that one to my girlfriend since she didn't have a 360 and because I wanted the new Halo 3 360. The only problems with my 1st one is disk read errors and it scratched her Halo 3 disk. x_x __________________ :: XBOX 360 / / SPARTAN sui ::