It doesnt make a fucking sound at all when starting the 360 and play demos etc.

fantastic, the falcon chip were great!

Have you been given a description of what work was carried out? has it been refurbed or replaced? if it is quieter they might have just replaced the DVD drive?

No it cant be the DVD drive since I only played demos,and before it sound like a fucking storm.

They wrote they changed the motherboard chip.

And apparently it seems so,its damn quiet.

Nice one, sounds like you had decent service, long may it last!!!!

yeah,it basically took me a week and I got a quiet 360 now.

Good to know Quez because unfortunately, my faithful 360 decided to die too, just when I got to the 4th disc of Lost Odyssey! It' s been a good few years now, my first ever problem. I noticed a slight artifacting last night in one of the cut scenes and thought that it may be time for a break (oh pun) so I turned it off. Next morning, 3RLoD.

I' ve already sent it off to them, and hopefully it should be back within a week or so. So I guess this news is somewhat encouraging.

edit: Now that I think about it, the loudest part of my 360 was never the fans, nor was it the DVD drive. My HDD is definitely the loudest. It thrashes away like hell whenever it' s caching something. Whenever it' s in use, it sounds like it' s just bouncing around in its flimsy plastic casing, like it' s ready to tear itself off the side of the 360. I' ll probably look into just popping it open and placing a couple of rubber washers to dampen the vibrations. Although I' ll have to see what it looks like inside first.

I think it sucks MS is ripping us off if we want bigger harddrives in the Xbox, i have 250gb in my ps3 and it cost a fraction of the 120gb i can buy from MS.

The casual gamer wont be able to do that,I mean put in a laptop HDD,but yeah a friend or a electronic store probably can do that though.

It won' t work because of the FAT used on the 360 is 360 specific. Which means you are bound to buy M$ approved disks!!!!

It won' t work because of the FAT used on the 360 is 360 specific. Which means you are bound to buy M$ approved disks!!!!

Yeah, they use FATX I believe. You can upgrade your HDD on the cheaps, but you have to have the specific model of HDD, and need to have some pretty good PC skills.

Did you get a model with an HDMI port Quez?

The new 65nm processor has next to nothing to do with how loud the box is. The new drive is what' s keeping the boxes quiet. The fans are ever so slightly quieter, but most Xboxes are actually really quiet when you run them without the DVD drive plugged in.

No,its the same xbox360.

But they swapped the motherboard,more I dont know.

But it make no sound,it usually sound like a fucking hurricane before in the dashboard.

Yeah, they use FATX I believe. You can upgrade your HDD on the cheaps, but you have to have the specific model of HDD, and need to have some pretty good PC skills.

-Have you tried it Eddie?

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No,its the same xbox360.

But they swapped the motherboard,more I dont know.

But it make no sound,it usually sound like a ***ing hurricane before in the dashboard.

Could the new motherboard have HDMI on it but you can' t see it because they kept the same casing?

dont know,perhaps.

But im loving my 360 atm now.
Hopefully it wont break in another 2 years.

Love how quiet it is.

Its even more quiet then a ps2,not joking.

Yeah, they use FATX I believe. You can upgrade your HDD on the cheaps, but you have to have the specific model of HDD, and need to have some pretty good PC skills.

-Have you tried it Eddie?

Yes indeed I have, though not on my own box. I' ll PM you some more info/tuts if you' re seriously looking into it.

Could the new motherboard have HDMI on it but you can' t see it because they kept the same casing?

I doubt it. If they were to upgrade your mobo, they' d throw it in a new case. At least that' s been the trend thus far, though I don' t know quite as much about the European repair centers so I can' t say for certain.

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I doubt it. If they were to upgrade your mobo, they' d throw it in a new case. At least that' s been the trend thus far, though I don' t know quite as much about the European repair centers so I can' t say for certain.

Down in Aus they most certainly do replace the whole PCB. When my friend got his back from repairs, it had exactly the same case (it was marked beforehand) and serial number. But there was one important change. He has a MAC address filter on his home network and when he attempted to reconnect his 360 with it, connection failed. Closer inspection revealed that the MAC address had changed and after updating the filter he was able to connect again.

It' s impossible to change a MAC address without getting completely new hardware. Since everything is integrated on the PCB, one would only logically assume that a completely different PCB was given during repairs. I' ll test this theory myself when I get my 360 back next week.

But after reading this:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/digitaljoystick/archives/132014.asp?from=blog_last3

It' s safe to say all Quez got was a refurbished old design with an improved cooling system. " Opus" will solve this problem as said in the link, but it' s too early at the moment. It won' t be until late 2008 that repaired 360' s get Falcon like PCB' s.

Huh... Interesting link Unlucky... I' ve known about Jasper for months, and I saw " Opus" coming, but Valhalla is totally new to me.

Opus makes sense. The Valhalla combo chip on the other hand would be a massive undertaking. The amount of R&D would be astounding. I personally can' t see it in the near future, if at all, but I' ve got the page bookmarked. We shall see.

Maybe with the Valhalla package they' re going the PS2-->PSTWO route, and thinking of a major design overhaul! I' d actually be impressed!

I' d say, about the size of the HD-DVD add-on would be about right!

I' d say, about the size of the HD-DVD add-on would be about right!

Not if they want to keep the HDD.

Well, I got my 360 back this morning. In total it was away for 5 days. It was only at the repair center for a single day, the rest of the time it was in transit.

As I suspected, they definitely changed the entire PCB. The MAC address is different as well as the Kernel version. I thought I had lucked out got a vulnerable HV kernel but it was still recent enough to stop any sort of easy tampering.

The console itself doesn' t seem any different. Mine was never loud to begin with apart from the HDD. Temperatures seem to be the same as before.