Det er ret tydeligt at se, at Microsoft har forsøgt at tænke sig rigtig godt om, når det gælder designet af Xbox Series X, for de har ikke bare kreeret den stærkeste konsol de nogensinde har lavet, men også den med bedst køleevne. Det lader netop til at luftgennemstrømning og en robust afkølning af komponenterne har været i fokus hele vejen igennem, og det har resulteret i en forøgelse af luftgennemstrømningen på 70% i forhold til den originale Xbox One.
I et interview med Digital Foundry fortøller Chris Kujawski, der er Principal Designer hos Microsoft, følgende:
"With all that power, you have to move a lot of air and you want to move it quietly. We studied many different ways of doing air movement in a product and a single axial fan was the most efficient, the quietest air mover for our system... we do a bunch of customisations here, so the number of blades, particularly the blade geometry, is highly, highly optimised to operate within the confines of our system.
We also have to have good air in to the enclosure, so you have certain venting and large holes. You have exhaust out the top and we have large venting holes, but the net effect of putting all of this together, having parallel paths, having this really powerful quiet fan at the top, is that we get 70 per cent more airflow through this console than the past generation and we get 20 per cent more airflow through our heatsink alone than in the past generation."
Noget kunne tyde på at konsollen netop bliver stille og effektivt kølet, men vi må se ad.
