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Posted: May 31 2007 08:58 pm

Holy crap, thats an awesome pic.

Posted: Jun 21 2007 01:23 am

From F@NBOY$ creator Scott:

"A friend of mine buys people's dead X360's just to repair this problem and resells them. What's the problem in them? Well MS decided to use really cheap thermal paste (A goo that goes between the CPU and the CPU COOLER) that doesn't dissipate heat too well and ends up solidifying and going to waste. And secondly, they CPU's fan runs only at a fraction of the speed it should be running at. Easy things to fix, just poor design, like usual."

Posted: Jun 21 2007 04:54 am

I'm suppose to get the thing back Monday. It's been like nearly 3 weeks, pretty sucky, but not like I had any new or even old games to play summer. I've been giving my NES a workout!

Posted: Jun 21 2007 10:59 am

I don't get why they had to use the cheap thermal paste. A perfectly acceptable paste, Arctic Silver, goes for $5.99 at NewEgg. Microsoft can't be that cheap, can they?

Posted: Jun 21 2007 04:47 pm

Yes they can. Very easily, in fact.

Posted: Jun 21 2007 07:23 pm

Just like with the original Xbox, when people realized that Microsoft was using ATA33 IDE ribbons in the consoles, when the DVD-ROM and hard drive were ATA100 compatible parts. And, simply by replacing the original ribbon with a ATA100/133 ribbon (Which most computer users have spares of because you get two of them every time you buy a new Motherboard.) the games would load up to 50% faster.

Posted: Jun 21 2007 07:30 pm

I did that with my old Xbox, it was sweet. I think a big reason 360 is having probs is the lead free-stuff rule.

Posted: Jun 21 2007 07:59 pm

Seriously? I'm re-ribboning my Xbox.

Posted: Jun 22 2007 09:54 pm