My original Elite Xbox360 was sent for a faulty drive back in December (Bought it as soon as they arrived in Gamer's Hideout. I bought it in September and was running great, until the drive had problems. I suspect it was running on the old Zephyr motherboard because the Falcon wasn't made ready then.

But guess what! Just got it BACK from Gamer's Hideout, completely brand new AND has Falcon! Woo hoo!!!!!

+1 For Microsoft!

Bladdy hell....... have to replay my Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 all over again! Lucky got a few games savd on my Memory Card, but my Guitar Hero 2 game all gone!

Oh well....... another excuse to play more!

But my Xbox downloads are all in tact, so no problems there. Thanks anyway for the great service!

It's funny..... I have my White 360 For about a year plus or so, and have no problems. My Elite (bought in Sept last year) had problems ONLY because of a faulty drive, not a 3ROD.

But I place my Xbox360s on a lifted wire mesh frame (bought from Ikea) and place it horizontally. I noticed alot of you had 3ROD because it was vertical and the thermal paste basically melted downwards. I also have been running both boxes like mad (The WhiteBox360 suffered when I first bought it AND stupid Guitar Hero 2 and my Elite was tortured on Live, Call of Duty 4, Halo3 AND Guitar Hero 3). If I don't play (which I don't play enough), my DAD plays waaaaaaaay more then me, sometimes running 10 hours straight. Ask Djinn, he met my dad. I also have the air-condition running all the time when I'm playing the 360 also.