Comments on: Does the Xbox 360 overheat as much when watching movies as it does when playing games?

By: Cooper

Cooper — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:24:07 +0000

Highly unlikely when watching movies. When playing games on the 360, the console is using what is called the GPU (Graphical Processing Unit). This chip is what fails on the 360 9 times out of 10 creating the red ring of death error. When watching a movie it is simply using the GPU as a light buffer between the disc and what you see on screen. Higher end games demand more use out of the GPU causing it to overheat due to poor engineering and airflow.

By: William

William — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:24:07 +0000

Overheating in an Xbox is more an issue of the hardware inside than the actual use of the console itself. You console will be performing harder when playing full games vs arcade games or watching movies so it will be working harder. Generally the hardware is built with the fan providing enough spin to prevent an overheat. The number one reasons 360’s experience overheating is just bad engineering in the older models. If you have a newer 360 it shouldn’t overheat at all, if it does I’d recommend taking full advantage of the Microsoft warranty and getting them for every penny their worth for selling you a bummed 360.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:24:07 +0000

No games take up a lot more space just like the computer, if you have something on which takes more to play it will be slower, laggy, an more often to freeze.

By: Milk84

Milk84 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:24:07 +0000

It doesn’t make much sound when streaming Netflix because you don’t need a disk in the drive to do this. The sound you here when playing a game is the disk spinning. Moving parts cause heat so the 360’s fans have to come on more often to cool it down, causing more noise. A 360 can overheat no matter what you use it for. The red ring of death is cause by the chip set overheating. With the newer models, this problem has been reduced.

By: James

James — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:24:07 +0000

It reads less data on the DVD than an xbox 360, you will find it will use the fan a lot at the beginning because it is buffering the whole movie, after it has done that then it will run smoothly, only using some setting. where as on games it has to keep reading more and more data