The new improved and thinned Xbox, codenamed Valhalla has arrived and one major benefit is that you will no longer have to fear the Red Ring of Death as they changed the colour of the ring to green.   Anand is quite familiar with the RRoD as he has seen three of his five Xboxes die in that particular way.  He picked up one of these new Xboxes, with its new look and reduced power consumption and tore it open to see what was inside.  You can find out what he discovered here.


Ryan also picked up one of these machines so keep your eyes open for the PC Perspective strip down coming soon.


“I own a total of five Xbox 360s. Four of them have died. Three because of the Red Ring of Death, all out of warranty. Many have had serial Xbox 360 failures, I had them in parallel.

The last revision of the Xbox 360, codenamed Jasper, was supposed to fix the infamous RRoD problem. So far my Jasper has been running fine. While Microsoft never confirmed the cause the RRoD seemed to be a result of poor cooling and manufacturing issues (either at the die/underfill level or at the solder level or both).

Needless to say, I wasn’t terribly happy about purchasing a sixth Xbox 360, but here it is …”

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