Xbox One built to automatically tackle overheating

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Microsoft has apparently built Xbox One to know when it's overheating and be able to do a couple of things about it.
One thing is to rev the fan up to maximum speed - a speed it should never need "under normal environmental conditions", Leo del Castillo, Xbox general manager of console development, told Gizmodo.
Should those conditions become extraordinary for some reason - perhaps something is obstructing the Xbox One heat vents - then "there is overhead" for the fan to rev up. "We'll allow the fan to go all the way up to its maximum speed and that [should] solve the condition without the user having to do anything," del Castillo said.
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