Quote Originally Posted by TransAxle
yep your correct they used the same exact components that they produced 2 or 3 years ago....they had so much in stock that they said FUCK IT they will come out with the elite with all the old pieces left over! New tech. does not have to mean all new designs and pieces it can mean better built pieces even if they come out the same. The boards can be modified just a bit to cut down on heat and such! RROD was something that occured when the console got to hot for to long to often! If the parts are spread just a bit to keep the heat down and give the console more air flow better odds of working! So next time you go trying to get techincal about it make sure you understand. The products can be the same but the elite iwth a redesign console insides has cut down on RROD! Hell it can still happen, but hey thats technology, you can buy the best top of the line computer thats only been on the market for a day and it will still run into problems, technology is not perfect!

I understand completely. Almost every one of my buddies has had their 360's go down, so we had alot of time researching and reading all the tech forums, and a few of them emailed microsoft tech support and telling them that they were gonna take the 360 apart themselves and did not care about the warranty and the reps told them to check the heatsink goo and the soldering.

When the Elite's were announced, everyone was excited because we were gonna trade ours in at EBgames and get the Elite, but after some were released in Europe and people started poking around and posted up pics, it didn't take long for everyone to notice that the only change was placement of parts, and the larger capacitors that were at the bottom of the board...but the soldering was still the same, and heatsink and processor were still the same.

Microsoft at this point has not released when they will be turning to the new processor that will let the 360 run smoother and faster and should not work the 360 as hard, but it's all hersay because some fanboy will come out and say they heard it will be in the next box, or it will be in the 08 models....

the fact of the matter is, Xbox has taken a huge hit on the RLOD and other warranty covered 360's....that they are not gonna do shit until they get that ironed out first