Cooking With the XBox 360 172
Mr_Congeniality writes "Someone by the name of 'Brett' went all-out to prove how hot the XBox 360 can really get. So hot, the heatsink boils water on contact, but not only that, it can make a delicious meal. Be warned though, this video may not be suitable for those with weak stomachs!"
Eggs and Home Fries (Score:2)
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1104341 [hardforum.com]
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I think that's called "Natural Selection"
Three Red Lights of Death? (Score:3, Insightful)
The 360's not even a year old... I'm assuming the Lights of Death aren't a widespread problem? I would have read more about that on /. by now if it was widespread. (No, I don't own one.)
The video isn't really worth watching, even if it is hosted on YouTube. Just another "cooking on electronics" example.
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You from th'deep south, boy?
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If it's less then a year old, and just guessing that the warranty on the xbox360 is atleast a year . . . then what'd this guy do to void his warranty?
Given that, isn't this non-story just a video of a guy cooking an egg on something hot?
Slow news day?
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The warranty is only 90 days unless you buy as extended one. But they did extend the warranty on units produced in 2005. My unit was giving me the 3 light error over a month ago, and I called MS and they told me it was out of warranty. I called back about a week later on a tip from a local EB Games employee, and they did say the warranty had been extend
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Here in Denmark we got a mandatory 2 year warranty, the first year the seller has to produce evindence of mishandling in order to void it (very hard), the second year it's left to the consumer to prove error on the producers part (pretty easy) - but the way it works is the buisness always take in the item within the first two years. And on top of that you get the warranty extended if you have to get it repaired - that means if something breaks after 1 1/2 years, the
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Because of this I'm very cautious when it comes to extended warr
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Word of advice. "Backward compatible" means "most old games will run on it". It does not mean "all old games will work on it exactly as they should", unless the Wii actually contains all of GC's electronics. Otherwise there is going to be some differences, and the odd game that chokes on them - and that will certainly be the game you want to play most.
For example, Crimson Skies does
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So I guess long story short is: either this guy was too cheap to buy a decently priced warranty, or he had done something to his xbox360
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Okay, I buy the warrantee when it's feasable (say, 10-20 bucks), but that should not be nessessary. The product is exepcted to be selling for 5 years, right? Then why the hell wouldn't they build every one of them to last at least 5 years? This isn't the motor vehicle industry, this is consoles. And people excpect thier consoles to last damn near
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The problem is that the level of complexity rises with each generation. Of course your NES and SNES are going to work forever because as long as it doesn't get power spiked, the PC boards are going to stay intact. That's the beauty of those solid state systems, no moving parts, no hard drives, no optical drives, no operating systems, etc. Ever since consoles have started using ***-ROM drives, hard drives, operating systems, wireless/IR receivers, multicore processors, complex graphics processing units, hea
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Try cleaning the contacts with an alcohol solution. The likely problem is that the top layer of metal has oxidized and doesn't conduct all that well.
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You can say that again.
OMG!!!!! A heat sink with NO FANS and a BOX built around it so that it gets absolutely NO AIRFLOW can get incredibly hot!!!!! Who'd have guessed it?????? I wonder....if you remove the heatsink entirely, do you think there's any chance the chip itself might get hot too??????????
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Anything that's an actual choice on the menu is a widespread problem, I'd say.
Mine got hit with it two weeks ago on my launch day 360.
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Don't worry about it. The manufacturers warranty has the disclaimer "your statutory rights are not affected". You later mention that you are in the UK; well we have pretty good consumer law at the moment. Getting a repair out of warr
With my NintendoDS I can cook too... (Score:2, Funny)
I start the day with Brain Age (Me: 32, My Brain: 23) and then my DS teaches me cooking...
Yes but... (Score:2, Funny)
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Hmm... Has it seemed like, since then, that your boyfriend hasn't payed much if any attention to you? Your friends seem to just ignore you when you walk by and say hello? Is there a weird little kid who seems to be the only one who talks to you?
Just wondering.
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It started with a dust and beverage caked keyboard and progressed from there.
I've been afraid to use detergent though. That stuff is corrosive. What's your policy on that?
Old? (Score:2)
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the xbox cooked the egg almost instantly. It seriously took less than 10 seconds to cook the egg.
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I couldn't use the dell on my lap for more than about 15-20 minutes, the macbook is seriously the coolest (temperature wise) laptop I've ever used.
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Not a new concept, but it is a benchmark! (Score:2)
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COMMENT SCORE UP (Score:4, Informative)
Ok, no need to mod me up. This is not informative at all. I just wanted to take this post away from karma wh**es
I'm confused (Score:1)
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How do I get on Slashdot? (Score:4, Funny)
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You prefer that he use a plastic spork, do you? :-)
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I dare him to do that with a PS3!
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Three Red Lights of Death (Score:1)
Does the Three Red Lights of Death have any relationship to the MS Windows Blue Screen of Death?
Same shit, just different colour.
That's nice... (Score:2, Funny)
Power consumption (Score:2)
So, complaining, we do. And go back to work on our 20-odd brand-spankin'-new Xbox 360 dev kits.
Only later do I look at the back of the fridge and determine that it uses only half the power of a SINGLE Xbox 360.
It's amazing the entire building di
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-1, Wrong. If the fridge was manufactured any time in the last decade it is almost certain to have power factor correction capacitors. This is now a requirement for consumer electronics and electrical applicances (in the EU, at least)...
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Who says the fridge was either:
a. Made in the EU
b. Made in the last ten years
Fridges tend to be pretty damn durable and could have been made in the last 25 years for all you know.
Natalie Portman (Score:2)
I'm sure we've run this joke into the ground by now.
scrambled eggs (Score:1)
Poor Sony (Score:5, Funny)
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I'm sure the PS3 can satisfy your needs :
http://www.ps3grill.com/ [ps3grill.com]
So by the time ... (Score:2)
What's with the music? (Score:2)
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Poor direction (Score:2)
Moving to 65nm process should reduce heat (Score:2)
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6148098.html/ [gamespot.com]
Microsoft will be moving to a 65nm process in the first quarter of 2007. This should result in a significant reduction in the heat and power consumption. It is the main reason I'm not buying one yet. Whether Microsoft will reduce the price of the console when the make the change is up in the air, but it will almost certainly cut the price at some time.
Don't do XBox (Score:2)
What a dork.
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Re:Heatsink is supposed to be that hot... (Score:4, Informative)
That's around 65 and 71 Celsius.
Having a PC heatsink at over 75 Celsius ain't that much of a big deal, why would an X-Box be any different ?
If the temperature of an object you come into contact with is 149 degrees Fahrenheit, it would take about 2 seconds to cause a third degree burn... that's about as much as you'd need to start "cooking" the eggs too.
So... scary-looking, yet absolutely normal.
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So, I'll ask again: What processor used in modern day PCs runs happily at 75 degrees Celsius?
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Not that I think that's great in any way
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T42p's that go north of 80 with heavy graphics activity, and sometimes sit well at 90C (not recommended, is a sign of fan failure if pegged at 90C/60C)
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My current CPU (Athlon64 3000+ in a desktop OCed from 1.8-1.935GHz) runs regularly around 31 degrees Celsius. Under heavy load, it hits 38. In the winter when my room gets cold, it even drops to about 28 degrees.
The coldest I've ever seen a CPU run on air cooling was my 2600+ (from above) when I had the intake for the CPU heatsink fan ducted out of my window. On a 12 degr
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Quite fast, agreed, but I doubt he could make water actually boil in a small tin can placed on the heatsink.
And by how "fast" he got his hands out of the way from the heatsink before the egg experiment, if that sink would have been at over 100 celsius, he would have at least second degree burns on his fingers (he didn't even seem to get first degree burns by the way).
All in all, I'd have to say, that heatsink musthav
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http://www.boyds.com/coffee/brewingguide.html [boyds.com]
Serving
Serve coffee as soon after brewing as possible. Coffee loses flavor and aroma quickly. If brewed coffee must be "held" on a direct heat source, it should be held at 185F, and for no longer than 20 minutes. Higher temperatures cause coffee to break down quickly, producing a bitter and flat taste. Lower temperatures make the brew too cold and consumers will
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In the case of fast food coffee, there has to be a balance struck with safety. Water at 180F is not safe. And I would hardly compare McDonald's coffee to Boyds
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I am not a small child; I want the pointy scissors, the dangerous superglue instead of paste and if I need to spray for bugs, give me something that is poison. I can take the responsibility if I eat it.
The problem has nothing to do with the water being "safe" or not... the problem is people demanding that it be "safe" and that "safe" status enforced through legal action. I'd imagine far more people have d
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Actually, if you check here http://www.badalijewelry.com/tolkien.htm [badalijewelry.com] (and you can read about the licensing of them here: http://www.badalijewelry.com/forging.htm [badalijewelry.com], which may or may not be valid still). But the rings cost differently depending on what metal you order them in ($480 for the One True Ring in 10k gold up to $896 in 22k yellow gold). You can read the rest of the site to see how much it w
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I've been able to move my relatives to thermal servers when they serve coffee over longer periods of time, and it's helped them get their coffee up to palatable.
OTOH, I generally drink espresso from a Livia 90 automatic (not super automatic, but not a level system.) The beans are ground 30 seconds before extraction, and the espresso is consumed 3-5 minutes from extraction time. That way, it's never cold...but who
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Temperature doesn't mean anything - it's heat dissipation that matters. Here's more basic math for ya:
I have 1 gram of water at 100 degC and that is my heat sink. Let's say I then have 10 grams of egg. Let's say the heat capacity of egg is the same as water. Let's say the egg is current room temperature of 20 degC. If no energy is added to the (water)heat sink, the equilibrium temperature between the egg and the water will only be about 27 degC, which is nowhere near enough to cook egg. Now, let's assume
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This has to be one of the best responses to one of my not-so-well-thought-out-at-6-am posts ever. :-)
I have to agree with everything you said. And yeah, I didn't really think through my trying to cook 10g of egg with 1g of water. Too bad 'preview' does not catch sanity errors...
The one comment I have that is more on-topic: If a heatsink transfer to water or egg is greater than in air, which I agree with, that will mean that the temperature of the heatsink will drop faster for a given input energy. I'm ass
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Re:Out of warranty ? (Score:4, Funny)
Damn Microsoft and their draconian license restrictions.
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the knowledge base article is from before any x-boxes ran out of warranty.
Hmmmm... the built in spell checker in Firefox could have a huge impact on slash dot
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I've discussed this with Americans in the past and it does seem to be that way i.e. they have a manufacturers warranty only. However, most people in the UK incorrectly think we are the same and the sales people perpetuate this myth. For those not in the know, you can up to around six years of warranty. It's all down to how long you would "reasonably" expect the item to last.
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So it didn't occur to you to, say, turn off power when the machine began spurting hot liquid metal around ?-)
But I feel for you: my server machine that was running my experimental program for automagically downloading, categorizing and insert