Chromecast Ultra Overheating from Stadia?

[Demon_Skeith]

Users over at Reddit are reporting that Stadia is pushing their device to hot limits. Anyone else having this issue?

 

[froggyboy604]

I wonder if some users bought a defective Chromecast which has a broken parts which overheat a lot when streaming 4K games and videos for many hours non-stop.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I wonder if some users bought a defective Chromecast which has a broken parts which overheat a lot when streaming 4K games and videos for many hours non-stop.

apparently they all over heat from use, but Stadia is really pushing it.

 

[froggyboy604]

apparently they all over heat from use, but Stadia is really pushing it.

I read a blog post that some users have to glue a metal cooler hestsink on Chromecast Ultra to stop the overheating.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I read a blog post that some users have to glue a metal cooler hestsink on Chromecast Ultra to stop the overheating.

that's pretty extreme.

 

[froggyboy604]

that's pretty extreme.

I agree it is pretty extreme. Small metal heatsink coolers can be somewhat expensive, and hard to find or not sold at a local electronics stores like Bestbuy.