Mon, Oct 30, 2006
As most of you might know, Xbox 360 can run a little hot. But who knew it was actually hot enough to whip up some horrible-looking scrambled eggs.
Some dude by the name of Brett has gotten the dreaded Three Red Lights of Death on his Xbox 360, which is unfortunately no longer under warranty. So before dumping the thing, he figured, why not cook some eggs on it! If the idea of eating scrambled egg off a Xbox 360’s heatsink bothers you, please refrain from viewing the video above.
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[...] “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!” [...]
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October 31st, 2006 at 4:30 am
This is sick … but looks fun
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:54 am
umm…didn’t they extend the warranty?
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:49 pm
poor sucker, microsoft is now replace 360 free of charge.
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:48 pm
isn’t it unsafe for it to get that hot in the first place? why didn’t they make it with a better cooling system… anyways…
and lol to bob
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:20 am
what is that first song called, if it has a name?
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:05 am
lol hahahahha
wow dats pretty cool
tsk tsk tsk microsoft…
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:23 am
thx for lettin us know that xbox360 is a frying pan!
did knew it gets THAT hot,
shame on Microsoft for not havin used better coolin
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:24 am
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*didn’t knew
i meant
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:04 am
Idiot, even if your warranty is done MS is still replacing of repairing launch 360s for about 150 bucks. Just have to send it back. and it doesn’t run that hot, you jsut can’t have it locked in a cabinet, it needs airflow…think how hot the PS3 is going to get, they are already melting at conventions.
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:31 am
Of course its going to get that hot when you play it hours on end. And also the fact that its running a triple core processor and a 512mb graphics chip in only a 3-4 inch space. Its the same as a laptop. That’s why they they sale aftermarket cooling units for it.
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Love the sound track, the Boondock Saints, brilliant film,
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Personally im more bothered about the disgusting waste of energy (heat). Surely we can come up with a way of making cooler running processors.
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:56 pm
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Its boiling water and cooking egg without a case and on a bench with plenty of ventilation.
What else do you want to keep it cool? A large aircon attatched to the case?
How much hotter does it get with the case on?
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Egg white “flocks” (or clots) at 60° Celsius (140° Farenheit).
Most CPU’s are running at this temperature even if activley cooled, most are okay running up to 80° Celsius (176° Farenheit).
Soh uhm nothing really special here, move on.
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:27 pm
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Well, he did boil water on it. Unless he was doing it at Mount Everest, that’s about 100 degrees celcius.
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Or Denver. Water boils there at just over 94°C.
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Its obvious that the 6 degree difference between Denver and sea level invalidates the fact that his xbox runs rather warmly.
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:57 pm
lol – I’d still try to get it replaced under warranty.
“I swear, that’s the way it was out of the box. I thought it smelled a little weird.”
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Glad to see you putting your equipment to some good use, and I’m sorry about the three red lights of death (I see four lights). I once cooked a microwave burrito on one of those old 4G Seagate Baracuda hard disks. I didn’t eat the dust from the unit, though. I can imagine it would have a nutty taste.
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Is that dishwasher safe?
Man that must disgusting way to eats eggs
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Doesn’t ANYONE get suspicious that there is a heat gun there, I mean sure it could have been used to loosen up parts or whatever. But when you make a video about the heat problems and you have a heat gun, like, RIGHT next to you (I’d make the point that most people don’t have heat guns sitting on there desks… then again they probably don’t eat egg of a heat-sink either). So we have to take “Brett” claim that it wasn’t used at face value. I’m mildly suspicious, but w/e.
BTW – I loved the vid anyway, when I woke up this morning I never would have imagined I’d watch a guy each egg off of a piece of computing equipment, my day has thus been made
~X~
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:04 pm
is that first song from Boondock Saints?
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:13 pm
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The water didn’t boil. The little drop evaporated much quicker than it would have at room temperature, though.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 pm
If heat sink can cook an egg, I am guessing processor without the heat sink on can do more. Bookmarking your site with the hope of seeing that demonstration soon.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:13 am
I dont know if I missed it or something but is the Xbox plugged in? The only cable I’m seeing is the Heatgun cable.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:14 am
Computers of all types have been this hot for years. Don’t feel this is not normal, it is, for any modern computing device. The 360 is very much cooled plenty, that is unless you block it into a closed space and try to run it for hours on end. The PS3 will be the same. So is your current PC. If you have a current PC that runs at least 3 gigahertz, put your hand behind the power supply fan and you’ll see. Remember that hot air has already been cooled before you feel it coming out the back of your box.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:05 am
I run an overclocked caseless PC. (Wall mounted, for showing off XD)
My machine runs at 3.4 Ghz and stays around 40-50 Celcius.
The 360 has to be the most expensive frying pan I have ever seen.
November 5th, 2006 at 7:22 am
Good job showing that a heatsink, which is supposed to absorb heat (ie. get hot) in order to release said heat… gets hot. I salute you.
November 5th, 2006 at 9:16 am
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Why are the red lights blinking if it’s not plugged it?
November 6th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
The critical point for water is 376° C. That is the point at which a liquid is no longer stable, and converts to gas. Yes, water will boil at 100° C, but what I saw, was the droplet immediately evaporated, that means that the heat sink was much, much hotter than 100° C.
In case you’re wondering, the surface tension of the water would hold the droplet together for several seconds at 100° C.
I think the experiment was invalid, because of the heat gun being in the frame. Had the heat gun been used to preheat the heat sink, that would certainly invalidate the results of the experiment.
Chad
amateur chemist
November 7th, 2006 at 5:40 am
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Wrong. The critical point is simply where the lines representing the transition between gas, liquid, and solid meet at a point on a temperature/pressure relation phase diagram. Water converts to gas at 100 deg C. Go read that chapter again.
November 7th, 2006 at 8:42 am
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Excuse me sir,
You have confused critical point and triple point. What you describe in your comment is triple point. I have attached explanations below, not from a text book however.
Critical Point
“In physical chemistry, thermodynamics, chemistry and condensed matter physics, a critical point, also called a critical state, specifies the conditions (temperature, pressure) at which the liquid state of the matter ceases to exist.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_point_%28thermodynamics%29
Triple Point
“In physics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance may coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point
November 7th, 2006 at 11:17 am
oh…you’re right. Got mixed up because water turns to a vapor when it boils, not a gas….
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November 8th, 2006 at 11:06 am
I wanna see the MacBook Pro version!
November 10th, 2006 at 6:50 am
Yup heard too many horror stories about the Xbox 360, but that is the first one I’ve actually seen. The scrambling egg was humorous but I would have liked to hear what the guy was saying. If you know of a link please post it.
November 10th, 2006 at 9:12 am
if you notice in the beginning he touches the heat gun. it obviously had not been used in a long enough time period that it was cool enough to touch without getting burned.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:20 am
I love how some of you guys jump to the front lines to defend this obstocity. It could burn a hole through the desk and you’d still get comments like “Well the PS3 will be hotter” and “that’s a heatsink, what do you expect?” I expect Microsoft, a billion dollar company, to come up with a way to not melt the tv I would put this under. But maybe I’m just old fashioned.
November 21st, 2006 at 8:18 pm
i dunno if any1 notices. is the position of the heat gun changes. at the point he took up in hand and when he is pouring the water from the bottle. any comments?
December 27th, 2006 at 2:51 am
oh my god, never do that to a 360!
Sick!
January 5th, 2007 at 12:53 am
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good spotting, that is evidence enough for me to say that it is a fake and he has heated the heatsink with the heat-gun. as for the lights, and the probability that it is not plugged in: due to the quality of the video, any editing or alteration to the video could have been quite easily covered up, so it may well not have been plugged in.
April 22nd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
People, what does this show us, at the end of the day, all the xbox 360 is good for is frying some eggs.
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May 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Can it cook bacon too??