October 9, 2007Yet another planned XB360 Mainboard revision after “Falcon.”
Posted by The Ori
Well, we all know the 65nm CPU will be in the “Falcon” release boards, so what of JASPER? I think enough is enough!
Jasper (the friendly…. Eh, never mind) is the code name for the next motherboard for the Xbox 360. It will becoming next August, just in time for next year’s holiday season. Jasper is going to have a 65nm GPU (graphics chip from ATI Technologies), as well as smaller memory chips. That isn’t much information to go on, but it’s enough to tell people about their great cost-reduction plan. If you ask me, and probably everyone else, it’s a bit of a slow pace, considering…
So, why will it will take Microsoft essentially three years to cost reduce the size of the graphics chips, and memory chips, through a manufacturing shrink (Can you imagine what Sony will do with PS3 by year three?)? It doesn’t seem all that likely that they’re in a hurry to launch a redesigned Xbox 360 with the new graphics chip, considering that Intel (and AMD) have introduced their 65-nm chips a long time ago. ATI uses TSMC to make its chips out of Taiwan, and TSMC (look them up), hasn’t been the fastest people at moving to the 65-nm manufacturing process. We are to understand these tasks are difficult, and they take a lot of engineering resources. Microsoft has had to divert a lot of engineers to debugging problems with Xbox 360 reliability (hmm, you don’t say). Even so, you would think that they would have moved just a little faster, since the move to 65-nm graphics chip will likely be one of the best things they can do to improve the reliability of the XB360, considering HEAT generated is the main problem with it.
So, here is something that Xbox 360 buyers (and owners) should be aware of: Both Falcon and its predecessor Zephyr (used in the Xbox 360 Elite) have different thermal solutions than the original Xbox 360 (NO, Really?). You’ve seen the heat sinks in the cut-out photos posted elsewhere. Microsoft engineers believe those heat sinks will be sufficient as a solution for keeping Xbox360s from overheating. From their point of view, you don’t have to wait until Jasper to get a reliable machine, right? Then why are they making it?
This is all very suspicious here, because apparently, they still have a problem. So, they keep redesigning the product, all in an effort to reduce the heat output from the console. I, and everyone else, will not appreciate that; by THIRD generation, other people will have a more reliable, and to boot, a cheaper console. So, what about everyone that paid FULL PRICE for the portable oven that they have now? I don’t like it, not one bit. Sure, I like the Xb360, but I don’t have to like what they are doing, as they know full well, they have a real problem on their hands with the Xb360.
So, since we all have a 3-year, 3 lights of death warranty, one can only hope to snag a Jasper just before the warranty runs out.
Hmm I’ll wait for a reliable X360, regardless of the price. Just hope it’s hackable ;)
the 360 have nothing 2 wrry about since they got the same graphix n 360 will always b cheaper n have more games
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