Guyver says:

i saw a cooling stand and big w the other day that runs off usb power when the wii is on and runs of ac power when off which should work well for connect24, havn't tested it myself so i can't confirm how good it is, but i've heard complaints about some of these aftermarket fans being a bit to noisey especially the ones on ebay.

03/21/2007 www.myds.com.au Melbourne, Victoria

edak says:

shiversul said: lol ninty are prob scummiung us and have a heater in there lol so we buy the intercooler

03/22/2007 Victoria

Deed says:

swiftwilly said: noobies...

i left my wii on standbay + wii connect 24 eversince the first day it came out

result?

only emitting more greenhouse gases, wii is fine.

THE WII IS BUILT FOR THIS OTHERWISE NINTENDO WOULD HAVE A BIG LAWCASE ON ITS HANDS!

how many people would complain when wii cannot even stand a week on connect24??

JUST LOOK AT ITS NAME. "24" it means, keep it on 24 hours.

geez.....

you might as well wear full padding when you walk outside incase something hits you...

03/22/2007 Melbourne, Victoria

SpiKey says:

It's funny, if it weren't for the 360s dying, you guys wouldn't even think twice about the Wii being warm but because of it you think it's going to self destruct. I have yet to hear of a Wii that has been on standby and not worked when someone has tried to turn it on. In comparison, when the 360 launched there was no shortage of sob stories of peoples machines dying, my friends died after 2 months - but i've had my Wii running Wii24Connect since launch day and i've had absolutly no problems. Thats 3 and a bit months of constant use and it's got a warrenty for a year. My advice is to (pun warning) chill out, it's been show that the Wii runs MUCH cooler than any other next gen console... so relax.. you'll live longer

03/22/2007 Queensland

RerunWii says:

People have had their cpu damaged in the USA only a small amount but yeah, still I just go by touch, I wouldn't let my CD player or TV run at that heat so yeah...

03/22/2007 The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane

Eruntalon says:

Even though I said the fan cooling stands were a gimmick in a previous post, I went and bought a Playtec brand fan stand from Big-W just for the sake of trying one.

I would like to do a 'proper review' on one but for the sake of this post I'll keep it short.

The fan doesn't seem to do much in regards to cooling. I'll have to check whether its blowing into the base of the wii or sucking air out of it. The noise coming from the fan is minimal.

Some aesthetic positive sides to the fan stand are the white of the plastic which matches the Wii console, and the stand is more rigid than the standard grey plastic Nintendo stand. It also has rubber feet on the base which lift it by a few milimetres - good for airflow?

The two blue LED light strips on the side of the stand aren't neccesary, it just rices the Wii up a bit.

In summation, I think it's pretty worthless as an accessory.

03/22/2007 Bendigo, Victoria

Guyver says:

was about to get it the other day now i think i'll give it a miss

03/22/2007 www.myds.com.au Melbourne, Victoria

ZOIDBERG says:

It runs 24/7 unless you turn it off right? wish it could sense when its needed to run and turns itself on and off like putting it on auto

05/07/2007 Planet Earth, New New York

crazynites says:

it has a switch at the back , off - on - on + light , the fan will stay on 24/7 when the wii is switched on or in standby mode & turns off when you turn the wii off standby.

05/07/2007 Melbourne, Victoria

RerunWii says:

No the fan dosn't initialize when in standby...

05/07/2007 The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane

Guyver says:

RerunWii said: No the fan dosn't initialize when in standby...

05/07/2007 www.myds.com.au Melbourne, Victoria

RerunWii says:

Well...mine dosn't that's one of the technical faults in the Wii...some of them don't work in standby...

05/07/2007 The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane

Guyver says:

RerunWii said: Well...mine dosn't that's one of the technical faults in the Wii...some of them don't work in standby...

05/07/2007 www.myds.com.au Melbourne, Victoria

JackAz says:

My Wii has been on WiiConnect24 since the day I bought it.
It never gets hot?

05/07/2007 Victoria

JackAz says:

shiversul said: lol ninty are prob scummiung us and have a heater in there lol so we buy the intercooler

05/07/2007 Victoria

mywiisites says:

JackAz said:

shiversul said: lol ninty are prob scummiung us and have a heater in there lol so we buy the intercooler

If this was the case, the intercooler would be Nintendo branded.

Stupidity annoys me.

05/07/2007 geelong

RerunWii says:

Yeah I got mine on launch, it's a common fault. There is no great advantage to having them on standby anyway...

05/07/2007 The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane

Mario128 says:

Tss save the money, my Wii has never over heated or anything like that with Wiiconnect24 on. Maybe for a Xbox that really heats up fast.

05/07/2007 Adelaide

Version2 says:  

Does the Wii even need a cooling system, I left my Wii on for 3 days straight and it didn't get hot.

05/07/2007 In a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop

RerunWii says:

That's because the fan initialized...

05/07/2007 The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane