| ssj12 said: The RRODs are caused by the X Clamps and heat... i doub it will fix it unless it cuts the heat by more then 30 degrees. |
The community's currently strongest belief is that they're caused by X clamps causing strain on the motherboard combined with GPU heat in specific. This fabrication upgrade could feasible decrease GPU heat by 30 degrees Fahrenheit because it would likely allow them to run at lower voltages also and decrease the ambient air temp in the 360 (due to the GPU producing significantly less heat).
Jasper would almost certainly decrease the % of units that fail within 12-18 months.
The somethingawful forum has a huge thread about 360 failures. These are primarily 360 fanboys, and they're reporting units manufactured within the last month are failing. This includes new HDMI premiums, elites, and newly manufactured replacement units sent from Microsoft (in leiu of refurbs). People are getting units off of store shelves and having failures within 2 weeks and many people have been reminding them that they can take the 360 back to stores within 30 days if they purchase from most retailers (but not gamestop which only allows 360 returns within 7 days).
It looks like the Falcon units are still failing, which is very disapponting for me personally because I wanted the falcon to be stable.
