X Box Series X Heat Issues

The plug your Xbox in the wall now

I'm not too concerned and to me it was alway inevitable that the more powerful the consoles got, the more heat emmisions would be become an issue. Having had one of the cylinder Mac Pro in the past, the design they've come up with makes sense to me.

I've already planned the Series X not to sit in a confined space of a tv cabinet, but rather sit on top as if a mini desktop, I think a little thought on where you would like it positioned prior to it arriving will help overcome any potential overheating
issue of trying to locate the box in a bad ventilated area which will cause the heat to build up at the top were its trying to emit the hot air.

Hi,

I'm pretty sure MS have done their 'homework' on this one. They've already had great success with the cooling solution used on all the Xbox One consoles, especially the One X which gets rather warm.

Like all modern consoles you'll need to put it somewhere it can 'breath'. Those cramped entertainment units are not going to cut it. Put it in an open space.

Now I'm tech minded, I built my own decently high ended gaming PC and temperatures are something I like to keep an eye on. Hot depends what you think hot is and what these machines are designed to operate at. In games my PC CPU can hit 75c and my RTX 2080
can go up to about 84°C - that's a pretty toasty 183°F. Although it doesn't do this on all games.

All computer/console hardware has thermal limits applied in hardware. When these limits are reached (or close to) the system will throttle (thermal throttle). Throttling reduces power consumption and clock speeds, this in-turn cools down components or stabilises
them to a set performance set and temperature.

Your console won't get hotter and hotter and then spontaneously combust. If anything, it will shut down before that happens. And it will only shut down as a last resort. There we go, health and safety sorted.

My favourite tech YouTube channel about consoles (and PCs) is Digital Foundry. They're right on the ball when it comes to these things. Indeed, DF's Richard Leadbetter was invited by Microsoft some months ago to see the Series X teared down.

These are the guys I'm going to be watching for their complete verdict on the console when it becomes available to them to fully test.

I have the same issue. I bought the x box series s and it shows that today is the delivery day but no x box. Did i get scammed?

horizontal is best, because heat rises. Vertical with the series X is best for this reason