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Not every model of the 360 will inevitably red ring. Those were typically only the "fat" models and there are some fixes to prevent it from happening. It usually just involves changing to some better quality thermal paste & reflowing the board.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Xbox+360+Red+Ring+of+Death+Fix+...

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This video does a deep dive on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KbVf1AD1c

He suggests that all of the fat models will eventually red ring due to being stress tested at the factory. Not sure how true that is.

RIP Felix has a much better video that explains the cause of the failure.

Factory stress isn't the cause. It was a bad design.

You misread, that's not what I wrote.

You wrote "He suggests that all of the fat models will eventually red ring due to being stress tested at the factory" - it directly states that stress testing at the factory is the claimed reason that the fat models will red ring. Or was the video host somehow stress tested at a factory?

The video states that the stress testing is what aggravates the underlying design flaw.

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The problem is internal to the CPU packaging, there isn’t a way to fix it externally. Later 65nm (both GPU/CPU) it’s almost a non-issue, but any others will almost definitely red ring at some point, all you can do is delay the inevitable.

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