We've been seeing this come in from a number of sources over the past few days, but TeamXbox now has some crystal clear shots of new changes to the Xbox 360 hardware repair process. TXB refers to the internal hardware photos as "confirmation of the new 2nd heatsink/pipe technology...that Microsoft installs to provide additional cooling for the Xenos GPU."

Xbox 360 owners who have returned their consoles suffering from the "red ring of death" are reporting that this new addition has been showing up in refurbished 360s over the past week. TeamXbox has a number of theories about the change and we hope that this addresses the unusually high reports of faulty hardware issues gamers are experiencing.

We're waiting to hear back from Microsoft reps on confirmation of the new hardware changes. Michael McWhertor

Xbox 360: Pictures of the New GPU Heatsink [TeamXbox, thanks EnigmaNemesis!]

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