New Xbox 360 - built in wifi & 250GB Hdd

[Matt D.]

Originally Posted by tpunx99GSX

Ive had numerous friends of mine have theirs completly bricked where they had to return it. One friend is on his 4th xbox due to all kinds of failures not limited to software issues. And another friend is on his 3rd.

The only 360s that absolutely bricked were the early ones. Ever since then the RROD has been almost entirely caused by bad application of thermal paste on the CPU/GPU causing them to overheat. Also, the power supplies were changed in the later Elites and those failures have all but disappeared.

Originally Posted by tpunx99GSX

The Media Server works great, and if i want to play any pictures, music, videos etc i can do that. Couldnt ask for more on this.

All things that the 360 has as well. Neat.

[cmspaz]

Originally Posted by Matt D.

The only 360s that absolutely bricked were the early ones. Ever since then the RROD has been almost entirely caused by bad application of thermal paste on the CPU/GPU causing them to overheat. Also, the power supplies were changed in the later Elites and those failures have all but disappeared.

There's one error left that I've found that I can't fix, and that's the 2-ring e74 general hardware failure. That one is generally an ethernet port issue, and short of replacing the mainboard, the box is dead.

I will definitely be picking up one of these new ones. Hopefully that swappable drive is a standard interface so I can transfer all my game saves...