I was wondering how many other people experienced problems with a Jasper. Mine (Arcade) lasted two months before the GPU started failing. It suddenly displayed black/white vertical lines in games. Fortunately I have a GS warranty and it is going back right today for a new replacement.
Both my sons have new Elite's, about one month. They used mine before I hooked them up on Xmas. No problems so far (cross fingers). Although they play MUCH more than I do.
Overall, this is failed XBOX 360 #6 or 7. I lost track.
How does a Multi-billion dollar company with nearly unlimited experience and resources screw up a design so badly, and then repeat the screw up in multiple redesigns? What was so hard about putting independent fans on the heat sinks? Couple that with poor OS release (Vista), and Micro$oft is really going down the drain. I can't see how anyone can trust them anymore.
I built a red elite for my bro for xmas with jasper internals and found the very first gpu heatsink on it. It was kind of weird because it has the elite heatsink on the cpu. The console didn't run that hot, i replaced the thermal paste and did my xclamp replacement on it assuring he won't have any problems with it in the future. I think it's kind of weird to see the old gpu heatsink on a jasper though.
I think i've heard of gpu issues and ram issues with the jasper so far. But if you take the heat out of the xbox i'm sure it will last a long time, if not forever.
because there using a smaller gpu,,it creates less heat so they think you dont need the bigger heatsink,,,cutting costs i guess,,first thing i would do is replace the smaller heatsink with the bigger one,,go big or go home,,then you wouldnt have to worry about over heating,,
The RE5 red elite and a 256mb arcade, both jaspers, built in 03/09 both had the 2nd gen gpu heat sink but I've also seen elite and arcade japsers as recent as 06/09 with 1st gen cpu heat sinks. Eliminating the extra copper from the heat sinks saves MS a lot of money overall.
However they did get rid of the 4 ram chips on the bottom of the mobo and added larger ram chips to the top side so that was good.
@ krehator are you standing your system up or setting it down flat?
