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Weird, they did that to me as well, but I got mine a week before yours, and sent it off after?!

It is a proven statistic that 50% of postal workers can't remember where the Shetlands are.

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just got maximum amount of achivement points on a game for the first time

 

on UNO yey 200/200 :D good relaxing game been playing it alot this week.

if anyone's interested you can get UNO and Robotron together for £2.99 here http://www.365games.co.uk/index.php?productID=3043 (they mail you cards with codes on that unlock the full game)
Ninja Blade Videos

 

Trailer

 

Five Gameplay Videos

Actually looking better than I expected it, but it looks about as much to do with ninjas as Naruto. In other words, not at all. Where's the sneaking in the shadows? The assassinations, poison darts and ninja stars? This just looks like Devil May Cry but with skinnier swords and strange blurry wallcrawling.

 

I'd like a new Tenchu game that doesn't suck.

Dante Newbie

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The manufacture date says October 2008.

 

miss out on the Japser?

 

Edit: Japser's manufacture date are September/October 2008

 

 

Xbox-Scene reports that some readers now have Xbox 360 games consoles with long-awaited Jasper motherboards. These should run cooler and should mean the end of the Red Ring of Death, which featured on a recent Guardian Technology cover.

 

The Jasper board has the new 65-nanometer version of the ATI graphics chip, which ran hotter than Xbox motherboards could sustain, over the long term. This should run cooler and it also costs less to produce.

 

It's not easy to tell which machines have the new board. However, they have 150W power supplies with a different plug, whereas Falcon boards have 175W power supplies. Maybe someone will figure out the numbering scheme so it will be possible to tell from the box.

 

Jasper boards also have 256 megabytes of Flash memory to store the new avatar-based (Wii-style) user interface, with space to spare. Earlier models had only 16MB of Flash.

 

At VentureBeat, Dean Takahashi (who has written two Xbox books, and wrote our cover story) adds:

 

What exactly was wrong with the older 90-nanometer graphics chips and the boards that came with them? I've gotten some new information about that. The main failure cause was "thermal fatigue" of the leaded C4 connections between the graphics chip die and its organic carrier. The underfill had too low a glass-transition temperature for the amount of heat generated. That caused cracking over time, resulting in graphics chips coming loose.

In previous versions, Microsoft addressed this with better heat sinks. The temperature sense diode was off in a corner and didn't reflect the true temperature in the core regions. Jasper has shifted to a material with a significantly higher transition temperature. Coming up with this fix took time, since the new material had to be identified and tested. The smaller 65nm chip die also helps since the stresses that cause the thermal fatigue are related to size.

 

www.guardian.co.uk

 

The Xbox 360 revisions

  • Xenon
  • Zephyr
  • Falcon
  • Opus
  • Jasper
  • Valhalla

Guest Jordan

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Doubtful, she doesn't have the 256mb onboard memory and her old 175W PSU works fine with it.

Dante Newbie

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Doubtful, she doesn't have the 256mb onboard memory and her old 175W PSU works fine with it.

 

Righto.

hugs my elite falcon.

 

Oh Dante if you still have the Fable dolls can you pass them on to DTK Epic please.

 

I still have them Caris and I will passed them on to DTK Epic.

 

Who's DTK Epic anyway?

Ellmeister Newbie

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Found myself addicted to COD4 again! Such a good game, lots of people still play it online which is great :) After a bit of practice I'm kicking ass again! Definitely helps bond with the uni lads!

Happenstance Rising Star

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Well the tossers at MS wont repair my 360 for free because its been registered under my friends name first so they say the warrenty wont count. They also wouldnt let me give it to him for him to return it so looks like its just going in the bin.

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That's ridiculous, the warranty doesn't say it's voided if the console is leant to someone else, just say you borrowed it off him, and have him fill out the form on the website and print off a UPS label.

 

Did you talk to MS on the phone? From what I can tell, that's never a good idea. People are always complaining about being screwed over by MS customer support over the phone, but anyone who uses the simple clicks of the website as a returns procedure never has a problem.

Happenstance Rising Star

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Apparently there is now a note with the account saying the console is second hand so the warranty is void.

 

I tried online but got an error and it just told me to ring up.

 

Im gonna get my mate to ring up later when hes around and if the note comes up i'll just get him to argue that its not and we'll see what happens.

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