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*UPDATE 2* Geek porn: Xbox 360 Elite stripped down to the bare naked essentials |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Fujitsu, GPU, Hitachi, Microsoft, motherboards
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The interesting part to most is the area under where the CPU connects we see lots of changes around here but its mostly just smaller components in a tighter space. The Ball Grid Array size has of course not changed so although we see a denser arrangement of smaller components we should not take this to mean that it is necessarily the 65nm core.
Llama.com takes an Xbox 360 Elite and takes the stuffing out of it. Hey, it's all in the name of "being able to repair - or mod - the Xbox 360 Elite in the future (no matter what Microsoft's EULA may say)." Here are the bare essentials of what they found:- It uses the Hitachi GDR-3120L FK78 DVD drive, meaning "extracting the drive key and flashing the firmware of this unit won't be a problem!"
- Llama's amused at "Microsoft's most creative measures to minimize the dreaded Xbox 360 3 flashing red lights 'Ring of Death' error caused by poor BGA connections of the CPU and GPU": ""The good ol' a dab (of glue) will do ya methodology"
- The 120GB HDD uses a Fujitsu MHW2120BH drive. "Our initial attempts at dumping Sector 16 using The Specialist's hdhacker application was not a success... Without the Sector 16 you will not be able to upgrade your stock 20GB drive to 120GB the cheap way." Oh well, for now, you have to buy Microsoft.
- The fan header's been switched from the 4-pin Molex to a standard 3-pin fan header connection. For those who're using the Talismoon Whisper Fan, Llama's now offering 3-4 pin adaptors.
Update #2: The Llama's Adventurers have released part three of their feature on the Xbox 360 Elite. As with the previous parts, their tests continue to reveal interesting comparisons between the original Xbox 360 and the Xbox 360 Elite.
Power: It was revealed that there is a slight drop of power usage in the Elite 360 Hitachi.
Noise: Their tests revealed that that when idle, the Xbox 360 Elite is quieter by a few decibels than the Xbox 360.
Vent Exhaust Temperature: Pretty much same for both consoles. They register at 128F.
Their conclusion? Here it is verbatim: "The Elite is a bit quieter, uses slightly less power but does not sport the 65nm die. We have come to this conclusion for the following reasons. The power consumption is basically unchanged, the heat output is unchanged if this were the 65nm die it fails to address either of the items it was intended to improve."
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read the news b4 u post bull sh*t - noob
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Sales figures for Week ending 15th April 2007 -
PS3 hardware sales 13,806 dropped another 9%
Wii hardware sales 63,775 UP another 26%
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And do you realize if they make a cheap standalone Blu Ray drive it would KILL the PS3,as people would buy the independent drive rather than paying for a games console that also supports Blu Ray...
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Personally I think they should lower the price down to the point where its at their cost, they'd probably sell a lot more system and push out a whole lot more software that way. In the long run it'd help them a lot, and probably could run neck to neck with the PS2 in terms of popularity, in maybe 5 years. Microsoft jacking the price of the Elite for no real reason is just unjustifible. I know one thing people want in it for sure is WiFi!
The biggest problem right now is the 360 is branded with problems.
-Ring of Death
-Over Heating
-Loud
Microsoft could easily fixed all these problems but it doesn't seem like the newly designed hardware for the Elite isn't going to help any of that. Sure you could mod the hell out of your 360 to overcome heat and noise, but the average owner isn't going to do it.
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Some might argue that 1080p isn't important and nor is HDMI, but now MS pushes out a new SKU of the 360 with HDMI for what reason? Oh because some games might actually want to use the added bandwidth.
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Hope they bring out a HD-DVD+BluRay compatible add-on player [that would rock] : )
Oh yeah - 4 all those ppl trying to knock the Elite - screw u - the Elite is awesome, i'm gonna get 1 + put my current X360 downstairs [just coz u'r PS3 sucks coz its games + online suck - dont mean u can go around bashing the #1 console]
thats my 4 cents
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Microsoft said they'd add an integrated HD-DVD player to the 360 if there was enough demand. They have no intentions of EVER dealing with bluray
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Pay only $200 more, get "free" blu ray and wi-fi. Wow. How much more does it cost to get decent games developed? Aparently too much.
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That should fix the reliability issues for good.
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