How to fix your overheating 360

I like to try and share good gaming tips and tricks as often as I find them. This morning, I was watching the RSS feeds dump into my inbox and out of the overabundance of XBOX 360 news, an article about overheating 360's caught my eye.

This is a quote from our friends over at engadget:

"Sure, if your Xbox 360 is crashing you could call up Microsoft tech support and get your new toy repaired or replaced — or you could take design flaws matters into your own hands and source out the root of the problem. And according to one Gamespot forumsgoer, apparently what’s causing these overheating Xbox 360 crashes isn’t the Xbox itself, but rather that monstrous power supply. So what’s a gamer to do? Increase the airflow over the thing by getting it up off the floor, and suspending it in the air with string — or if you’re not feeling like making a trapeze act out out of the thing, stick it on an open box so it can better emanate heat. Apparently this has been doing some good, but hey, remember that if it can’t sit on the ground as intended, it’s defective, so make sure you call ‘em up and get it sorted!"

Personally, I would have gone a bit further in expressing the importance of keeping everything, most importantly the power supply, from overheating.

Overall, just know that it is vital to keep everything cooled down.

Short, sweet and simple tip of the week!

Have a great weekend!