Have a new Xbox one x and yesterday I had to download my games from my old account again. I noticed that my Xbox was already quite warm on the ventilation, is that normal? So generally how warm is "normal" with such a console and with what kind of activity?
Computing chips are installed in a console. They work at temperatures of 50-100 degrees… So everything is normal.
Can get quite warm, it also consumes a lot of power. As long as you can touch them without any problems, it's fine.
Well, actually it is normal for a console to get warm. However, if it becomes abnormally hot after not being used for so long, the ventilation may be dusty. With the PS4 you can easily vacuum the fan, I think it had to be the case with the Xbox as well.
However, 100 ° C is already borderline hard.
If a modern processor gets so hot, I would be worried, even when it comes to a notebook.
Exactly, it's borderline. But normal processors also start shortly before with thermal throttling and regulate themselves. I just wanted to explain that the parts get pretty hot.
But even 100 degrees would not harm a processor in the short term… In the long term, of course it would.
Of course it would settle down - so I thought that I would be worried if my CPU was 100 ° C hot.