i was wanting some advice,iam exchanging my white hdmi xbox with a e74 error and my friends black hdmi elite console which sometimes wont read games first time and have been offered two fully working none hdmi xbox 360's with j-tag so we can run games off a hard drive. for £100, we know the picture wont be as good, we want to know if its a good deal and not a step backwards with the consoles not having hdmi. we are both new to the xbox360 and are not bothered about live
The picture isn't that bad if you use the component cable, it can do up to 1080i. I wouldn't do that trade though, those old boxes are around 6 years old and have massive heat problems.
Xbox 360: Slim untouched with a faked 320 GB harddrive for XBL, phat with LT 3.0, played Halo early, so going on live would be an instand ban, also with a faked 320 GB harddrive
PS3: Untouched 160 GB Slim, 60 GB Fat with latest Rogero and 160 GB internal harddrive.
PSVita: hardly ever play it
GameCube: Black with a Viper chip installed. With gameboy player. Trying to get a Wavebird controller.
Originally posted by Eisherz: The picture isn't that bad if you use the component cable, it can do up to 1080i. I wouldn't do that trade though, those old boxes are around 6 years old and have massive heat problems.
they do come with at least 3 months warranty and have uprated fans in them i should also say they have been reflowed/reballed and checked for 24hrs
Originally posted by Eisherz: The picture isn't that bad if you use the component cable, it can do up to 1080i. I wouldn't do that trade though, those old boxes are around 6 years old and have massive heat problems.
they do come with at least 3 months warranty and have uprated fans in them
I wouldn't do it. Non-HDMI (Xenon) consoles are problematic. They are the 1st incarnation of the 360, not well designed, and overheat, a LOT.
Just have your e74 error fixed and replace the laser or drive in the Elite, then have the two consoles RGH'd which is essentially the same as JTAG'd but works on most all consoles. You'll spend a little bit, but I assure you it's better than getting those non-HDMI boxes reflowed in 4 months and again and again. Think about it, there is a reason he'll give you 2 JTAGs for two "broken" boxes. It's because the "broken" boxes problems are not big problems at all, especially the Elite's 8 dollar laser.
Originally posted by Eisherz: The picture isn't that bad if you use the component cable, it can do up to 1080i. I wouldn't do that trade though, those old boxes are around 6 years old and have massive heat problems.
they do come with at least 3 months warranty and have uprated fans in them
I wouldn't do it. Non-HDMI (Xenon) consoles are problematic. They are the 1st incarnation of the 360, not well designed, and overheat, a LOT.
Just have your e74 error fixed and replace the laser or drive in the Elite, then have the two consoles RGH'd which is essentially the same as JTAG'd but works on most all consoles. You'll spend a little bit, but I assure you it's better than getting those non-HDMI boxes reflowed in 4 months and again and again. Think about it, there is a reason he'll give you 2 JTAGs for two "broken" boxes. It's because the "broken" boxes problems are not big problems at all, especially the Elite's 8 dollar laser.
thanks for that info, so scrap the idea of a trade then but now a different senario at first he said he could hack the drives to play back ups i can get the back ups they are around 8.5gb but how do you burn them and are they easy to do, also do they have to be pal as i said iam new to the xbox360
Burning: You need an IHAS burner with burner max firmware. Ripping: You either need an original Xbox 360 drive or a DROM 3616. I would hack the drives yourself, it's pretty easy.
Xbox 360: Slim untouched with a faked 320 GB harddrive for XBL, phat with LT 3.0, played Halo early, so going on live would be an instand ban, also with a faked 320 GB harddrive
PS3: Untouched 160 GB Slim, 60 GB Fat with latest Rogero and 160 GB internal harddrive.
PSVita: hardly ever play it
GameCube: Black with a Viper chip installed. With gameboy player. Trying to get a Wavebird controller.
Originally posted by Eisherz: Burning: You need an IHAS burner with burner max firmware. Ripping: You either need an original Xbox 360 drive or a DROM 3616. I would hack the drives yourself, it's pretty easy.
thanks for all the info, i have now some thinking what to do and which way to go
