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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (262322)	11/27/2005 10:22:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573197

Will that mean they'll have to recall the current 360s and replace the CPU?" Apparently, for some systems at least, the power supply is overheating. Given that it probably was spec'ed early in the design cycle, and the decision to overclock was likely made very late. So it looks as if they will have to do a recall on the power supply. I don't get this........its common knowledge that with a new chip, the early bin splits are not the best; that those chips don't usually perform well and that overall yields are bad. Why don't they toss the early chips that don't clock properly and tend to overheat? Money? If I were Gates, I'd be pretty pissed right about now........to the world, its his Xbox that's looking bad, not IBM's CPUs. ted