Everything is growing to be more high-tech nowadays.

A simple compact disk used to be so high-tech, with all the supposed game-savvy people gawking and (yes, admit it) squeaking in delight when they realized that their games need not to be packaged in a bulky and tape-look-alike device.

Well you can’t really blame people and the companies (that bathe using gamer’s money) for developing better (well, they claim it to be) machines, with infinite spaces and ultra fast capabilities. Such as the PLAYSTATION 3’s whopping main RAM of 25.6GB/s, graphics processing unit (GPU) of 550MHz and Full HD specs. Let’s not forget Xbox360 as well, a tight competitor in the market, which also has 550MHz.

But all these advance technologies, and never ending quest for the title “The Best Console” or “Console of the Year”, not to mention the thirst for more (More! And more!) MONEY, does not come without a hefty price.

It is quite known to most people how notoriously easy it is the older versions of the Xbox overheat. Actually, the ingenuity of the simple old gamers have developed this cuddly trick, which helped other owners save a lot of money, and even saved them from brain cancer, preventing them from taking all those headache pills. All they needed was a nice fluffy towel, and after wrapping it around the overheating machine for 15 minutes or so, voila, no more unwanted burned parts.

Well, that was the old Xbox, a lot of changes and new technology has emerged after all those years, which left us wondering, are the newer consoles any different?

Let’s start with the Sony PS3. There were already numerous (millions, not just thousands) recalls for the lithium batteries manufactured by Sony and when, a long, long time ago, the PS3 was just getting released in Japan, it seemed like a premonition when almost all the machines overheated, much to the executives’ horror.

Turns out that the nightmarish promotion was due to the heat in Japan, and truthfully, it does get sweltering, well maybe even beyond that, hot in Japan in that time of year. Septembers are one of the hotter months in some regions in Asia, and it is 100% sure that the PlayStation was not the only appliance overheating that day.

So far so good, the Sony PlayStation has been living up to its name of machine excellence and not very many overheating problems were reported since the launch of this console.

Too bad the Xbox360 hasn’t reached the pinnacle of hardware success, despite the cool games exclusively for Xbox; Microsoft doesn’t seem to get it. Hardware is also important to the customers! Overheating of the earlier versions of the machine has been reported by the thousands, if not millions, yet there are still the same problems. Sure the towel trick would seem ok for the first few hundred times, but it makes no sense to buy an extremely expensive machine and you need to treat it like a queen, putting 5 fans over it, or cuddling it up in a towel. The only thing left for the gamers who own a Xbox to do is to bring it flowers, and for sure that won’t cure the problem.

For now there are a few solutions to this Xbox 360 heat fiasco, but most, if not all, of them would cost you money, and scarier still, your warranty.

One of the solutions would be loosening the screw or just go ahead and crack it open (kiss you warranty goodbye) and apply some good quality heat paste near or under the GPU (Don’t let your kids do it, duh!).

Some also reported that dust is a major culprit with the overheating, but hey, your warranty also goes up in flames even if you just wanna dust your machine, right?

Either you want to bring your machine in for repairs in an accredited repair center, or bring it to an UNaccredited repair center, or just risk it and repair it yourself, we conclude that there is no easy way to fix this. Cheers and good luck!

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