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360 Dashboard Updates Making Things Worse?

It’s a weird thought, but is it true? Whenever Microsoft puts out updates for the Xbox 360 dashboard, do things just get worse? With the first update of the dashboard a couple of years ago, the 360 turned into something slower than my 109 year old grandmother, as well as the red ring of death. Then you have the second release, it caused you 360 to get bricked because of the RRoD, and many other problems that I’d rather not post here. Then another update, which attempted to fix the HDMI Audio problem, but hey, what do you know? More bricked 360’s. So is the 360 just getting worse as updates come out, or is Microsoft finally going to put out a release that fixes all of this shit?

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NXE Countering Jasper’s Benefits?

As you may know, Jasper is now coming out with 65nm die, while older systems had a 90nm die, appears to be fixing all of those Red Ring of Death woes. It has also been released that the new Jasper systems have a 150-watt power supply, and a smaller graphics chip, so the system won’t heat up as much, which will lead to less system failures.

This all sounds really freaking great huh? All of your old 360 problems solved, everything’s all good right?

One user on the Official XBox forums had this to say after he bricked his first 360 and rented a new one:

“Guess what? No RRoD but now the DVD drive isn’t working on that. I’m starting to get the feeling that [NXE] wasn’t tested enough with all of the different types of 360 hardware out there. A lot of the components used are different depending on when the console was manufactured.”

So, it’s still unconfirmed whether the new chipset in the Jasper actually relieves these glitches,  but we can all hope so.

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