TheBigFatJ said:
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. I haven't heard of anything either about the Falcon 360's having RRoD yet. I think its just fanboys that have one console that are finding ways to heat up the 360 and make it so it can have a RRoD. 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. |
Actually EBGames has a 30-day defective return policy. So if your 360 is a defect, you can exchange it for a new one if you want. Thats what happened to me. My Xbox 360 Premium died on me within 3 weeks and my 7 days expired. But I contacted EBGames and they said we can exchange defective game consoles within a 30-day period of purchase as long as you have the reciept. I did and I got an Xbox 360 Elite which is working like a beauty. No lock-ups or freezes. The discs are somewhat warm but the side of the system where the motherboard is resting on is cool as can be. The new heatsink did some new things to the Elite and its awesome.
