New Xbox 360 Motherboard, 65nm Graphics Chip Arrives Next Year

Well fuck that, I'm not waiting till August. I'm getting the holiday bundle that comes with 2 games so I can play Mass Effect and GTA4 and all the other sweet games with the cool kids.

i have a late 2006 system with no problems.

my only complaint about the system in general is the overly loud disc drive. the way it is currently i see it as a poor engineering design.

i don't care if the cpu is smaller and there is less heat, if it sounds like a jet engine its still stupid.

I really don't see this as a reason to wait on purchasing an Xbox 360. With the Falcon based systems beginning to filter into retail now I think potential buyers should feel confident about purchasing one. But then again (I'm sure I'll get flamed for this.) I truly feel that the RROD ordeal was completely blown out of proportion. I have two Xbox 360s, a launch Premium and an Elite (Just so you know, I also have a 60gb PS3, Wii, and just about every prior console before these so please don't try and call me an MS only fan boy.) and I've never had any major issues with either system. The only issue I've had with either was on the Premium when Oblivion was first released, the game would freeze on occasion but was fine after the patch for it was released. Moreover, all of my friends that have Xbox 360s have never had the RROD, and that's 16 different people/systems across five states, Maine, Utah, New Mexico, California, and Oregon. I am not saying that it doesn't happen (Obviously it's a big enough concern for Microsoft to extend the warranty.) nor am I saying that the people that claim to have had it happen multiple times are liars, I'm just saying that I feel that the majority of people that have suffered this failure have made their voice loud and clear and the media has caused it to snowball. Perhaps my friends and I have just been really lucky with our systems. Also, I feel truly sorry for those that have had this issue because I too would hate not having my 360 for a month or so because out of all the current systems, the 360 is by far my favorite. Then again, it still comes in second place after my gaming PC. :)

Next August?!!? That's a lot longer than the times I've been hearing. Guess I won't be getting one again for a while.

I thought the GPU was proven to be the main culprit of the RRoD? It has the weak little heatsink that eventually had to be updated with the heatpipe. Does CostCo or whoever still have that insane "no questions asked" return policy? I was going to get a 360 this Xmas but the 65nm GPU and CPU was what I was really waiting for.

The new processor isn't better at all. Some 360's that people bought already have this but they still get the 3RRs of death.

Has there been any failure in the new 65nm models

lame, that's pretty far off. was hoping to buy a 360 with the new 65nm processor sooner =\

oh shit, haha

If they are only updating the CPU isn't the graphics chip still likely to fail? In my case, my old 360 got the 3RRs a month ago. It was a gradual death over 2 days. Started with the display's colors looking like 16bit color, then no display at all. Finally intermitent 3RRs so I couldn't even send it in cause if it didn't RR to them they would charge me for a replacement saying only the display wasn't working. Anyway I suspect it was the ATI chip that croaked after all the boiling it was put through over the 1.5 years I owned it...of which I only played at most 3 hrs at a stretch 2 or 3 times a week.

rofl this is hilarious