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haxxiy on 27 December 2009
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Well months ago I sold my almost brand new X360 to a friend of mine. It sounded like a great deal at time because 1. I sold it for more than I actually paid on it 2. I would be screwed should it get the red ring of death and 3. I was hoping to get a gaming PC soon. Time has passed and well, I guess I'm giving up on PC game for some time.

You see, I though the X360 shared many games with PC but now I look at things the other way around, if you get what I'm saying. The X360 true exclusive games (Gears 2, Haloes, Rare games, possibly Alan Wake) worth more to me than the PC true exclusive games (Diablo III and...?). To make things worse for the PC, I can run DIII in a rather average gaming PC. Plus I don't want to keep pirating good games forever, it feels so much better to own the actual (physical) thing instead. The X360 games library is vast and rather cheap.

Now, down to business.

I'm thinking on buying an X360 Arcade, but I heard there is some big deal concerning the chipset inside the console and the red ring of death. It would be complicated to get my console fixed if I was to ever get the damned ring. Is there more than one chipset model running as far as Arcade X360s are concerned, like the older ones got a "bad" one and the newers a "good" one? And even if them all still have the bad chip, is there some wild guess on when they will update to a better chipset?

Still on the ring business, is there some specific thing to do in order to prevent hardware failure, like buying an extra cooler? Which position is recommended to keep the X360, or such issue is irrelevant concerning a possible overheating? And the disc scratching stuff? As far as I remember my X360 never scratched discs, is it a consequence of some specific action, so to speak?

I didn't manage to get my PS3 online even providing a USA address. In the other hand, my Wii works flawlessly. It is very likely that Live isn't still official on my country, but someone do know if is it possible to get a membership working even still?

Well I guess that's it. Thanks in advance, guys.