Recent content by chdude3

About 2 weeks ago I was seeing units with build dates of mid-July. It's going to take a while up here, methinks. :( I wonder what the chances are I'll get a Jasper Elite back from my RROD repair clusterf*ck? It's now been 26 days since my RROD, and MS still hasn't officially acknowledged...

As I said before, I agree that you'll see the 256meg on all consoles. I just don't see it being caused by the logistics of having different motherboard layouts (which they wouldn't anyways) or different population options (which they've already done by not installing HDMI connectors on some...

You've said that before, but I don't think it's true. There's no reason they can't use one motherboard for all three systems and just have different population options. Leave the memory off, maybe put on a 0-ohm configuration resistor to tell the BIOS/firmware that it's not populated...

It won't be just plain RAM, as the memory contents would disappear as soon as power is lost. It'll be some form of non-volatile memory, such as NAND Flash. How would you verify that anyways? The Arcade units came with a 256meg memory card regardless, so either way they have 256meg of memory...

Wuss360, it's probably not a big problem for any of the integrators to manage. As long as the package size/shape/pinout was maintained such that the 65nm CPU is a fit/form/function drop-in replacement, then they can easily make either version with the simple part change. I expect they'd just...

My friend and I both bought Elite Falcons back in December 2007. His ringed in late August playing Too Human, mine ringed 2 weeks ago playing Fallout 3. We're the only 2 people I know personally with Falcons, and sadly they both died. Of my crew of 6 people who have all been with the 360...