Xbox 360 when they die they just die

[Yanbbrox]

Wow man. You know you can fix the RROD yourself right? When you ship it in all microsoft does is install thermal pads on your xBox. Take your xbox apart, take off the dvd drive and everything so it's just the chip, take off all loose wires. After that preheat your oven to 385 degrees, and stick the motherboard in for about 2 minutes. No longer, take it and wala. Fixed xbox.
Or you can wrap it up in a towel and let it overheat for 20 mins. This trick only works for aoubt 5 days before you have to do it again.

Why fix it yourself when microsoft can replace it?

Agreed with the above, why try to fix it yourself. I'm not really a microsoft fan, but for me after they finally said they'd fix the problem you can't beat digging $1billion into your own funds and adding another 2 years to the warranty. I can't see sony doing so, granted there system doesn't seem to fail as much, but again at this stage of the 360's life there weren't that many problems as well.

Yeah if you take it apart you lose your warranty. Mine doesn't read discs anymore so I'm just waiting to call microsoft. Already sent one away for ring of death. Pretty much all my friends with 360s are on their second or third because of these problems.

Partly true, before the warranty extension, loads of people took there system apart modded or not and still got replacements. Lets face it you've got a broken out of warranty brick, your going to open it up and try.

I bought the add-on intercooler. No problems as of yet.

The intercooler is a good one, IMO I'd rarther it break every 12-18 months in warranty than try and extend the time when let's face it it probably will fail, possibly out of warranty.

get a ps3 lol

have you played on the carpet? I've heard even the slightest covering of the heat ports can cause a fatal overheating

It's well ventilated. I'm not trying to start a war with this.....

Personally I prefer the 360 over the PS3, more games and better exclusives. The PS3 is good, but at the time I got my 360 it was only just released and mega money. This is my problem with the PS3, when it first came out it was expensive because of two things, blue ray and emulation of PS2. Sony had to fit it with blueray because it had to win the HD disc war(which they would have lost had the 360 had a HDDVD drive as standard). Sony's solution to the cost, get rid of the emulation, thus excluding everyone from playing PS2 discs on the PS3. I have the same problem with blueray, yes sure it's better than DVD, but they want you to go out and buy all the films you have on another format again, just like when DVD came out, sorry I'm not paying full price for a film I've got on video and DVD again. The only reason DVD took off is the same is when CD's came out, stuff the quality, you don't have to rewind and fastforward.

All your talk about the PS3....Psh. The PS3 still breaks, just not NEARLY as common as the 360. The difference? Microsoft will fix your 360 for free...

Would much rather be able to just mail away my broken toy, and have it fixed, then have to shell out another $500 for a new toy. Which, btw, is coming from a company who is going downhill, and are already so far in a hole with their toy (they have lost, and continue to lose, soooo much money on PS3's, they don't want to fix the broken ones)

Agreed.

 

[Nic]

cant go wrong with a Wii...


this intercooler you guys are talking about is it the nyko one?

 

[Yanbbrox]

cant go wrong with a Wii...


this intercooler you guys are talking about is it the nyko one?

Yes.

Personally you can't beat waving your arms around to the same concept over and over again

 

[SpeshulEd]

the 360's have almost all brand new guts now, if they replace the insides with the new parts, you shouldn't have the problem again. They used cheap parts in the beginning to bring down the cost.

Also, I have a ps3, 360, and a wii....and after spending time in front of all of them, I'd have to say 360 wins for games, wii wins for party gameplay, and the ps3 is glorified piece of plastic. I use the ps3 to stream video to the bedroom more than anything else. However, that might all change as games get bigger than dual layer dvds and no longer fit on 360 dvds.

Edit to add: The PS3 might be better better than the 360 one day if they ever figure out how to hack the thing. But for right now, that option isn't there and running linux on it is like using a computer in 1984.

 

[ozz465]

An other reason i like the 360 is the online play , sure the ps3 also has it but xbl is much better.

 

[bluehairman]

Edit to add: The PS3 might be better better than the 360 one day if they ever figure out how to hack the thing. But for right now, that option isn't there and running linux on it is like using a computer in 1984.

Lets face it, the only reason you want more space is for single player game play. Which is something that nobody seems to want anymore. Ever since halo online play has been the biggy and it appears that it will remain the biggy for a long time..

 

[Yanbbrox]

Lets face it, the only reason you want more space is for single player game play. Which is something that nobody seems to want anymore. Ever since halo online play has been the biggy and it appears that it will remain the biggy for a long time..

I disagree, personally I don't have live although I am going to treat myself to it when I find a job.

I've had a 360 for 3 or so years and the online achievements have always bugged me because I've never been on Live.

Bioshock 1000/1000
COD4 1000/1000, yes that includes the mile high club
Assassins creed 1000/1000
Dead space 1000/1000
COD2, half way there when it broke

Halo 3, can't remember but I've completed it on legendary which includes the stupid Cortana level, yet I've only got around 500 because I'm not on Live

 

[SpeshulEd]

Right now this is looking like it'll be the 360's downfall:
http://www.developmag.com/news/32098/Report-360s-DVD-format-falling-behind

Thats why I mention the space issue. Of course content can be installed on the hard drive, but M$ also has to think of the arcade users that don't have one.

As for the hacking thing, I still long for a game system that can be hacked like the old xbox. Xbox Media Center was and still is awesome. It'd be nice to have a next gen machine be able to stream video and look as nice as that did. All of the new systems stream video but they don't stream everything. I've since switched to Popcorn Hour - it does everything well. The interface is kind of crappy, but it will play everything I throw at it.
http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/

 

[rmorse]

Right now this is looking like it'll be the 360's downfall:
http://www.developmag.com/news/32098/Report-360s-DVD-format-falling-behind

Thats why I mention the space issue. Of course content can be installed on the hard drive, but M$ also has to think of the arcade users that don't have one.

http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/

No they don't. Why does MS have to think of them? MS produced a cheaper version of the box, so people can play some games for cheaper. They shouldn't have to make every game available for them, just b/c they didn't pony up the money for a HD.

 

[rmorse]

Besides. MS should just do an add-on disc tray, like the HDDVD one they had. If they do a blu-ray player on the side like that, then they could produce two versions of the games: one blu-ray version, in much better condition, and one normal DVD version, in lower detail. Problem solved.