Hello Bro Djinn,

If you ask my opinion I believe that with the 65nm process lots of improvement will come.

Since it is basically creating a new motherboard for the 360, Microsoft will fix lot of identified problem with that revision. And for sure they have identified whatever problem or randomness associated with the 3 Ring Of Death.

Now for the not so good news. I first heard that the revision will come sometime in first quarter of 2007. But read somewhere that now it is delayed to 2nd quarter. IMHO this also means that no price drop until just before summer.

However, that is my speculation. Ahhhh! Because no competition whatsoever from PS3 to justify price drop. And summer is just another season where kids will play lots of game.

M$ is milking the cow by not dropping price. More money in the war chest for the big fight later

Cheers!!! Hell I don't want to be Sonny in summer.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12487/Source...-Until-Mid2007/

Happy waiting~!

the batch got the most problem with 3ROD were those manufactured before or during FEB 2006
(what i read from those teamxbox.com, gamespot.com.. bla bla bla.)

anything after that was fine and stable.

there will always be problem when switching to new technology, i believe you got to wait another half year after they try to use the 65nm thingy.

oh i remember reading from FAMITSU(taiwan ver). state there xbox360 won the best electronic design award of the year. i guess they wont be getting this if their machine screw up so easily.

i just got my machine 5 days ago, DOA limited edition(not so limited though), manufactured on 15 AUG 2006. and its ORIGINAL. i was having so much fun on the live until the damn earthquake................. oh.. my 1 month free trial........

by the way. forget about this if you getting a... modded version, or "flash" version.

Some more wait for me then!

Sure ... just compare Xbox360 to PS3 motherboard ... and the inner geek inside me just say that microsoft skip alot of "design" decision to make it simple and cheap.

One might say that it is a tried and true design and not using new technology like CELL. But then the one cpu core of the 360 is actually very similar to PS3 PPE.

So IMHO there is always room for improvement. Hopefully new board revision will add stuff or at least mitigate the heat issue and result to less power consumption since that is what going 65nm is about.

Nice and cool! I hope I am there too, in Live playin DOA with you guys! But someday I will.

There is always very good reason to be original. There will also be reason to change the DVD drive firmware and then play backups or Jack Sparrow edition. There is also reason to wait for the thing to be hacked to allow homebrew or atleast running alternate OS such as Linux.



With that said it looks like homebrew and linux is something nearly impossible on the 360. It is quite tough this time around .

Good awful yawning, it is 3 in the morning and I am gone to slumber.

Peace!!!

[OFF TOPIC]

I remember something about the 360 getting award too. But if I am not mistaken the award is for overal stylish design of the console. Not for the electronic design as in the circuit pcb design etc.

Here is the link where I read about it -> Kotaku Article.

Link to FAMITSU article is somewhere in that page.

Have a good night!

This post has been edited by haris: Dec 31 2006, 03:15 AM

Aw~ my mistake

but it definitely worth getting it now. oh yah. wait after the tmsucks fix the damn cable.

opps they didn fix it. they waiting it to be fix only..

Good things comes to those who wait.



This is the version I have been waiting for!

Very niceee!!

wtf???

is this true??

old news la...

Since when?

since i saw it 1st heheh..cheer up bro...

I hope not soon . . . I just bought mine!

i wonder how much this will cost eh? 120G the HDD space is huge!!

well judgin by the space it could cost 1000 rinnggit more thn the xbox now, or more than that. and i doubt my "craving" will set in wen this version comes out cause, it will be exactly the same in games and features..........juz the insides have changed a little........if i needed 120gig for anytin id use my computer..........and if u tink properly..........this version of the 360 is juz like the slim ps2 .....only slight advantages but the same in almost everytin else.............

This post has been edited by iloveredapples: Jan 6 2007, 12:01 AM

I really like 1 comment in that site:
"The pic also begs the question, how will one use optical audio and HDMI? I realize HDMI carries the audio but I'm not about to trot out and buy a new receiver that handles HDMI switching. That said, I'm not about to replace my current 360 for HDMI either..."

Now....for sure...if it is true...most people would not only need to buy a new xbox 360..but a new HT receiver too...sigh....

so you wanna hook up the hdmi to your amp/tv?


i'm sure those amp with hdmi are not cheap also.

I might get this too when my funds sets in >_>''

My guess is that it'll probably cost more...but not up till RM1k more.

The 120G HDD is worth it though...then again, I can control myself from filling up my HDD with too much stuff.

i think it will not until 1k more. because currently the manufacturing cost should be lower. if this is true, i will wait for the second version of x360 to replaced my bricked console. i really really really missed my x360 moment.

Is the pict legit? Now i'm in a dilemma, to wait for the new xbox 360 or just buy the curent model.