I still have a perfectly functioning OG Xenon Xbox 360

[KrunchyTC]

My Xbox 360 was made in april 2006, and miraculously still works, plays every game I pop into it. I have more good luck than bad with old console it seems.

[DetectiveOnTheHunt]

Did you keep it in a cool room? I heard that the issues with the early models were caused by the contemporary PowerPC architecture generating lots of heat combined with no airflow in the console.

[Jagosaurus]

Also wondering if it got much play time. IIRC, on the Power On documentary, one of the lead hardware architects highlighted the extreme heat up and cool down of the components caused essentially cracking (of either the CPU or CPU). 

 

Our friend group had dozens of red rings. Some of our college houses had 2 rotating systems 🤣 ... whichever was surviving at the moment was in the living room.