I heard alot of Jasper owners here , well not alot , but some post i have seen, of members complaining of the loud noise by their drive.


To be honest, i loaded GTA 4 today, and mute-ed my TV, and surprisingly there was no sound at all, no sound at all while loading and playing the game.

What i can conclude is, probably those who face the issue with loud drive noise are those who runs the "pirated" copy of games bought from stores , as the media they use aren't good in quality but are cheap ones.

It's in my living room. But just a short distance. Just two steps, (i'm a rather tall person) and i can reach it. It's stored on top , the same as where my TV is stored..

This post has been edited by MyP2PCafe: Jan 19 2009, 10:03 PM

Actually even with iXtreme, you'd get banned if you go online playing "ahem2" games bought from your local stores. The ones that doesn't get you banned (at least you are 90% safe) is games that you get online (DL) and then you patch them so their data matches the ones at the retail stores , and thus you're at least secured to play online. Of course to stay safe, you shouldn't load any game bought from stores at all as the data would already (as people claim) in the xbox 360's Nand. Once you go online, the data would be sent and your machine would be flagged. So to be safe, never play bootlegged games bought from your peddlers.

And , one more thing where you're wrong is , it's not that they flash the xbox360 to play online with ahem2 games, but it is because the new iXtreme works with the latest drives included with the 360, Liteon. To save their cost, and time, they would just flash it with iXtreme 1.5 instead of using their old method , which is to replace the drives with Samsung drives.

True. If you're experienced enough , smart enough to do your own homework, Then you are "smart enough" to get a perfect moded console.

If you're just buying it for the sake of playing games etc, then get the original version as it'll safe you tons of hassle in the long run. Plus you get 3 years warranty officially.

Also, i don't know about other people , but playing games with achievement , adds more fun to the game. Example, in GTA4 , there is tons of things to do. You can run around , drive around and do alot of things. But that is it. Now with an achievement, you'd be tempted to get them , and try to get 100% of all achievements. You could try to swing your car 5 times in the air to get your achievement. Or win in a pool game, and so much more with the achievement system. In my opinion, the achievement system adds much more value to the game. If you're on a moded console (with retail backup games) , which you can't go online at all risking to be banned, it'll be boring to play the game and finish it , but not getting any achievements. Of course you can unlock the achievements but you won't get to show it online.

To be honest, if you're connected to the right ip range from streamyx , you'd have no issues with online play.

Some ip ranges are terrible, but some are rather smooth. To be honest, i play GTA4 online most of the time, alongside with GOW , and rarely face any lag issue. Most of the players are from the USA as well.

It depends on the DVD disc. If you bought it (not original), chances are, it's a cheap Disc and thus will cause loud noise.

A friend of mine, burns his games on Verbatims and his set is quite quiet. No Noise can be heard. The noise becomes noticeable when he inserts a disc bought from outside.

The Verbatims is as quiet as my jasper set, running an original Disc..