As many will likely remember much ado was made during the announcement of the XB1X about the console's Vapor Chamber cooling system as seen here
While the cooling system in XB1X clearly runs and works smoothly it appears after an actual tear down of the cooling system that the "vapor chamber" actually contains no vapor and is in fact just a vacuum chamber. You can see the video of the tear down here
Vacuum cooled chambers on their own would be a step up from most console HW cooling solutions so I'm rather baffled as to why MS would go to lengths to tout vapor cooling in their HW. It's really odd. Why risk engaging in false advertising over such a claim?
Obviously more testing is needed to confirm this and I hope by making this thread perhaps we can get some attention and garner some further testing to get to the bottom of this.
While the cooling system in XB1X clearly runs and works smoothly it appears after an actual tear down of the cooling system that the "vapor chamber" actually contains no vapor and is in fact just a vacuum chamber. You can see the video of the tear down here
Vacuum cooled chambers on their own would be a step up from most console HW cooling solutions so I'm rather baffled as to why MS would go to lengths to tout vapor cooling in their HW. It's really odd. Why risk engaging in false advertising over such a claim?
Obviously more testing is needed to confirm this and I hope by making this thread perhaps we can get some attention and garner some further testing to get to the bottom of this.