Anyone here have the new 'falcon' 360 yet?

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#1 PikaPichu
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I've been trying to keep tabs on the new falcon chipset over the past couple of days and it seems like some (most?) of the special Halo Edition 360s have the new 64nm CPU inside. Can anyone else confirm this? There's a discussion going on the official 360 forums. (link 1, link 2)

What do you guys think?

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#2 fazio93
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isn't 65nm?
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#3 shoeman12
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i got a halo 360 wednesday and it looks like it has the old heat sink
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#4 PikaPichu
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i got a halo 360 wednesday and it looks like it has the old heat sinkshoeman12

I bought mine when Halo 3 launched and it looks like it has the old heatsink too. :(

I guess I have to wait a bit longer.

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#5 shoeman12
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[QUOTE="shoeman12"]i got a halo 360 wednesday and it looks like it has the old heat sinkPikaPichu

I bought mine when Halo 3 launched and it looks like it has the old heatsink too. :(

I guess I have to wait a bit longer.

i wonder if they'll replace it with a 65 nm model if you get the rrod?

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[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]

[QUOTE="shoeman12"]i got a halo 360 wednesday and it looks like it has the old heat sinkshoeman12

I bought mine when Halo 3 launched and it looks like it has the old heatsink too. :(

I guess I have to wait a bit longer.

i wonder if they'll replace it with a 65 nm model if you get the rrod?

the main cause of the RRoD is the GPU not the CPU. they just made the CPU smaller so that its cheaper to make 360s.

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#7 DrumminDoc
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MS only told the press about the new chips. They have yet to start putting them in any console, and they are keeping very tight lipped about that.
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#8 fazio93
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[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]

[QUOTE="shoeman12"]i got a halo 360 wednesday and it looks like it has the old heat sinkshoeman12

I bought mine when Halo 3 launched and it looks like it has the old heatsink too. :(

I guess I have to wait a bit longer.

i wonder if they'll replace it with a 65 nm model if you get the rrod?

They will most likely replace ANY model with the new chip (once it is out) if it gets the RROD, or is sent in for any other reason. They wouldn't want that same 360 sent back again for repairs.

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#9 XdeadlythiefX
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how do you multi quote??

Anyway when they replace an Xbox from repair do they put a new or hold heatsink in. Oh and WTF is it??

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#10 fazio93
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how do you multi quote??

Anyway when they replace an Xbox from repair do they put a new or hold heatsink in. Oh and WTF is it??

XdeadlythiefX

they will most likely put the new heatsink in, a heatsink is something that cools another thing (usually a GPU or something that gets hot) in your 360...

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#11 MJ0LNIR_SPARTAN
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Yeah me. My HALO 3 XBOX 360.
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#12 xeekthecatx
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i bought a Halo 3 special edition 360 and it is much quieter and runs cooler. so yes, they are out. it also has a quieter dvd drive.