Does the ELITE have more overheating problems?

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#1 dhruv989
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since the case is black and black absorbes heat....is there a greater chance of it breaking...?
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#2 TheSystemLord1
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lol Black absorbs heat from the Sun, so I guess if you lay your 360 in a direct sunbeam then yeah it would overheat...but I doubt it.
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#4 Eye_See
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^You think color has anything to do with invisible heat? The shell is still made out of plastic like the white one, so the heat absorbtion from the hardware will be the same. However, if one did put it in the sun, yes the elite would heat up a lot faster, where as the sunlight would reflect of the white casing. Now whose the numbnuts numbnuts?
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#5 tkemory
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since the case is black and black absorbes heat....is there a greater chance of it breaking...?dhruv989

HAHAHAHAHA!

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I got an Elite this weekend and gave my Launch X360 Premium to my son.  The Elite I received is much much quieter than my launch X360.  The fans and DVD drive are alot quieter.  The hdmi looks better on my HDTV then my component cables did.  I am happy, except after I got my Elite setup, my old launch X360 that my son has died with the 3 red lights of death.  The boy was bummed, so am having it fixed, $140 kinda sucks.
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#8 kambion313
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since the case is black and black absorbes heat....is there a greater chance of it breaking...?dhruv989

black doesnt absorb heat unless you have a light source on it....so....dont put ur thang on a window.....BUT i had 3 lights of death IT WAS CAUSED BY THE INTERCOOLER!!!!!!! seriously.....the intercooler sucks..

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#10 OfficialBed
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 [QUOTE="atha_an_miere"]hah. Umm. Black absorbing heat has nothing to do with the sun. It absorbs any type of heat. Numbnuts.TheSystemLord1

Franklin's light experiment

Ok then, how do you explain that? Black does not absorb heat, it absorbs light a la the SUN.

More proof

Now, let's graduate elementary school for a second (that might be hard for you...but I'm patient). Light is a form of energy, got it? Do you? I'm not sure...what is light converted to in Solar Power? Huh? Heat? What? I'm right? YOU'RE the numbnuts? WOOOW! So if the Elite is left sitting under a sun beam, the light from the sun is absorbed by the color black, the color black then transforms the light into heat energy, the heat energy overheats the Elite. So Einstein before you go off calling people obviously smarter than you numbnuts lets take a step back, consult google, and realize that your 6th grade teacher might have failed you.

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#12 TheSystemLord1
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Ok numbnuts. I'll take it slow for you. The fact that the energy is solar has nothing to do with it. The color black reacts to and holds heat in general. It might be heat produced from solar energy, but the fact that it came from solar energy has ntohing to do with it. It couldve come from a ceramic heater, and the color black would still react to it and hold in the energy.atha_an_miere

Did you click the links?  Read?  Is your Elementary school textbook sitting right there?  You might wanna start crossing stuff out.  If Black absorbs more heat then why don't people exploring the arctic wear black clothing instead of white/brown/whatever color they feel like?  If I listened to you...I could go out there in a black winter coat and snow pants and the atmosphere would heat me enough to survive.   

I'll give you another few links

number 1

number 2

theres 2.  Find me a link where it says "Black absorbs heat in general, it does not have to be from light" and you will have proved me wrong.  

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#15 TheSystemLord1
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You're just wrong, so stop. There is nothing differnt chemically between the white and black casing. They are made of the same s**t, so they react the same way. However, visible light is absorbed by the black casing because the light does not bounce off the black, it is absorbed. Eye_See

Who are you saying is wrong?  Me?  Or our friend who likes to call others numbnuts?

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#17 TheSystemLord1
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Nope, I'm totally with you. The other guy is a f***ing idiot. However, if you just read my post, you would know i'm on your side. Eye_See

Yeah I'm sorry about that, I'm pissed for some reason.  Who knows?   

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#18 ColoradoKindBud
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The TC asked a simple question folks, it's too bad you can't seem to have a conversation without resorting to immature jabs & sophomoric insults.  Please leave the thread now & let everyone else have a mature discussion.

To answer the TC's question, the black case isn"t going to make the 360 overheat any more than the original case would.

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#19 xchannelsx
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Lets admit it, there are people that is just not meant to be anything but a janitor, the black ABSORBS LIGHT and transforms it into heat, if theres no light, then there wont be energy for the black to absorb, and there wont be heat (speaking of the color factor).

Sorry for the english grammar errors, its not my native lenguage....and im just too lazy to use the check spelling option

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#20 Eye_See
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It's true.  I did it in the name of science.  I apologize to the original TC.  To answer your question, just keep it out of the sun, like someone else said. 
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#21 TheSystemLord1
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Yeah, likewise I'm done with it, my point was made.  So to reiterate my first post in this thread, leave it out of the sun and you won't have any problems.  Put it in the sun and technically yes you could have a problem or two with heat.
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#22 Cedric169
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since the case is black and black absorbes heat....is there a greater chance of it breaking...?dhruv989
lol naaa don't think so..
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#23 ramo_zemog
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thank god I have a white one
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#24 AlexRA
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i dont think so because Black only abosrbs heat from bright lights like the sun
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#25 gamekingpin
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hah. Umm. Black absorbing heat has nothing to do with the sun. It absorbs any type of heat. Numbnuts.atha_an_miere

actually black does only absorb heat from Sun and lights because black obsorbs all colors as apposed to white which reflects them.  So because sun light and light from bulbs is a combonation of all colors any thing that is black will obsorb them.  As for natural heat not resulting from light it does not make a difference.  I'm sure what ever the case is, Microsof would have been intellegent enough to take note and design the cooling system accordingly.

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Somebody give Mr. Wizard a call!

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[QUOTE="atha_an_miere"]Ok numbnuts. I'll take it slow for you. The fact that the energy is solar has nothing to do with it. The color black reacts to and holds heat in general. It might be heat produced from solar energy, but the fact that it came from solar energy has ntohing to do with it. It couldve come from a ceramic heater, and the color black would still react to it and hold in the energy.TheSystemLord1

Did you click the links?  Read?  Is your Elementary school textbook sitting right there?  You might wanna start crossing stuff out.  If Black absorbs more heat then why don't people exploring the arctic wear black clothing instead of white/brown/whatever color they feel like?  If I listened to you...I could go out there in a black winter coat and snow pants and the atmosphere would heat me enough to survive.   

I'll give you another few links

number 1

number 2

theres 2.  Find me a link where it says "Black absorbs heat in general, it does not have to be from light" and you will have proved me wrong.  

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[QUOTE="atha_an_miere"]Ok numbnuts. I'll take it slow for you. The fact that the energy is solar has nothing to do with it. The color black reacts to and holds heat in general. It might be heat produced from solar energy, but the fact that it came from solar energy has ntohing to do with it. It couldve come from a ceramic heater, and the color black would still react to it and hold in the energy.TheSystemLord1

Did you click the links?  Read?  Is your Elementary school textbook sitting right there?  You might wanna start crossing stuff out.  If Black absorbs more heat then why don't people exploring the arctic wear black clothing instead of white/brown/whatever color they feel like?  If I listened to you...I could go out there in a black winter coat and snow pants and the atmosphere would heat me enough to survive.   

I'll give you another few links

number 1

number 2

theres 2.  Find me a link where it says "Black absorbs heat in general, it does not have to be from light" and you will have proved me wrong.  

just give up arguing with this guy now, i dont think he's going to prove he's a man and admit he's wrong. Heat absoption differences due to colour have nothing do to with anything other than light, any kind of direct light, and since the colour black absorbs more colour from the spectrum than white it would absorb more heat from a direct light source. Proof that black absorbs more liight, and colours from the spectrum can be seen by the fact the object is black, like when a room is dark, (no light returned to our eye means either no light to start off with or the object the light hits is absorbing it, visa versa for white) Your room tempreture wont affect the balck any differently than the white when its made from the same material, pretty much as you and a couple others have said but I just thought I'd add me ten pence worth.
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#29 gamekingpin
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[QUOTE="Hott-FuzZ"]

wow you people are retarted, yes its a fact that black absorbs heat much easier. black clothing in the sun, black car interior, ect all get hotter in the sun.

TheSystemLord1

But its from the SUN is it not?  You can't tell me that a black box, in a white room with no light, is going to be any hotter than the room itself.  Which is what numbnuts up there is trying to say. 

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#30 gamekingpin
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[QUOTE="TheSystemLord1"]

[QUOTE="atha_an_miere"]Ok numbnuts. I'll take it slow for you. The fact that the energy is solar has nothing to do with it. The color black reacts to and holds heat in general. It might be heat produced from solar energy, but the fact that it came from solar energy has ntohing to do with it. It couldve come from a ceramic heater, and the color black would still react to it and hold in the energy.the1stmoonfly

Did you click the links?  Read?  Is your Elementary school textbook sitting right there?  You might wanna start crossing stuff out.  If Black absorbs more heat then why don't people exploring the arctic wear black clothing instead of white/brown/whatever color they feel like?  If I listened to you...I could go out there in a black winter coat and snow pants and the atmosphere would heat me enough to survive.   

I'll give you another few links

number 1

number 2

theres 2.  Find me a link where it says "Black absorbs heat in general, it does not have to be from light" and you will have proved me wrong.  

just give up arguing with this guy now, i dont think he's going to prove he's a man and admit he's wrong. Heat absoption differences due to colour have nothing do to with anything other than light, any kind of direct light, and since the colour black absorbs more colour from the spectrum than white it would absorb more heat from a direct light source. Proof that black absorbs more liight, and colours from the spectrum can be seen by the fact the object is black, like when a room is dark, (no light returned to our eye means either no light to start off with or the object the light hits is absorbing it, visa versa for white) Your room tempreture wont affect the balck any differently than the white when its made from the same material, pretty much as you and a couple others have said but I just thought I'd add me ten pence worth.

 

I second that ten cents worth to make it a dub.  Can I get a ROY G BIV  (those are the colors of the rainbow by the way.)

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#31 gamekingpin
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Just like with the regular 360 keep it in a well ventilated area.  If you are still worried just go buy a small fan to place behind it to pull heat off of it.  But please, please do not buy any kind of intercooler what ever you do, those things are bad news
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#32 edmakel
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I'll let ya know in a month.....I ran the heck out of it yesterday though...almost 9 hrs straight...I did however slap an intercooler on the back. The air coming out of the back was cooler with the 3 fans from the intercooler running than just the 360E running by itself.

Did anyone else have a hard time getting a best buy service plan?...apparentley they didn't have a code for it.....

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#33 gamekingpin
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I'll let ya know in a month.....I ran the heck out of it yesterday though...almost 9 hrs straight...I did however slap an intercooler on the back. The air coming out of the back was cooler with the 3 fans from the intercooler running than just the 360E running by itself.

Did anyone else have a hard time getting a best buy service plan?...apparentley they didn't have a code for it.....

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I am warning you that intercooler is running off of the 360's power supply which was only designed to power the console itself.  With that intercooler you are cuasing the 360 to put out more energy than it is suppose to.  Eventually that may lead to your sytem burning out.  Trust me I know first hand.  It may not even happen 6 months from now but it will. So like I said just go buy a regular fan, a tiny one that you can place right behind it and make sure it is well ventilated.
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#34 deactivated-5f89ab8e63049
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Wow. A lot of you people get really angry at really little things.

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I doubt it overheats because it is black.
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#36 g5velocity
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since the case is black and black absorbes heat....is there a greater chance of it breaking...?dhruv989

I laughed so fuqqin hard I fell off my chair!  THANKS!

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#37 blacktorn
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Black absorbs sunlight which converts to heat not just heat itself lol

But anyway the elite has the same innards as the core and prem except some very small changes

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I must say, this is good revision for me; i have a science exam tommorrow! :P
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Teeheee! this is funny!
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so....what happened to yours...i need details...I really don't trust attachments that often.
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since the case is black and black absorbes heat....is there a greater chance of it breaking...?dhruv989
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