Is the Xbox 360 RRoD now a thing of the past? Jaspers spotted!

For those not already in the know, the Xbox 360's "Jasper" hardware revision may spell doom for the infamous Red Ring of Death. This hardware revision's CPU and GPU are both 65 nm and the system draws less power. Less heat and lower power consumption are conditions which will hopefully obliterate the RRoD issue and make buying Xbox 360s much safer, as the failure rate will hopefully be lower.

They haven't been around long enough to tell if they can have the RRoD problem, but you can find the details here.

I don't know much about this sort of thing, but will playing games off my hard drive via NXE also help avert RROD? I have one of the original Pro SKU's with old chipset and I'm going on my 9th month with it, so that's really the only hope I have of it never dying on me (I plan on upgrading to a 120GB HDD fairly soon, so I'll have more than enough space to do this).creepy_mike

If you happen to get the RRoD, when you send it in i think they'll send you back a Jasper console (it only makes sense doesn't it?). The Jasper consoles are said to be really good but they can't find an accurate failure rate yet because they have been out for too long but from clips on youtube you can see the difference. I was pretty glad to to know that microsoft came out with the NXE update so that you can store and run games off your xbox hdd. It makes an incredible difference in noise, and how much heat is created. Also load times are quicker when your loading from the HDD then the actuall disk.

Microsoft might have to come out with larger HDD if that's what they want to do to prevent over heating issues.

So in all i'd buy a Jasper and then put games ( the one that make the most noise , or the ones im addicted to =P ) onto the hard drive. Play and your good for a looong time.

Heres a video you might wanna see : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvt0NPIQCYo

I don't know much about this sort of thing, but will playing games off my hard drive via NXE also help avert RROD? I have one of the original Pro SKU's with old chipset and I'm going on my 9th month with it, so that's really the only hope I have of it never dying on me (I plan on upgrading to a 120GB HDD fairly soon, so I'll have more than enough space to do this).creepy_mike

You still need your disc drive to work to play games from your HDD. Or else people would just rent games for like 5 bucks then , store them on thier consoles..

*sigh* I used to do that on my xbox (original) but then i accidently bricked it :(

Well it's about time MS got it fixed. It's typical, RROD seems to be a thing of the past but after 3 RROD's, now my 360 is having trouble reading discs! And I'm not sure if the 3 year warranty covers that. Thank god for the hard drive install even though I can only install 1 game at a time.Floppy_Jim

This!!

Mine is perfect and i've been playing it for about 6 months. My only problem with it is that it wont play any game unless it was installed. Most games get stuck so quickly they are not copied, especially fable 2.

For those not already in the know, the Xbox 360's "Jasper" hardware revision may spell doom for the infamous Red Ring of Death. This hardware revision's CPU and GPU are both 65 nm and the system draws less power. Less heat and lower power consumption are conditions which will hopefully obliterate the RRoD issue and make buying Xbox 360s much safer, as the failure rate will hopefully be lower.

They haven't been around long enough to tell if they can have the RRoD problem, but you can find the details here.

Angry_Beaver