I loved installing 360 games, I had a really scratched copy of Red Dead Redemption and the game would boot and run but eventually would freeze and lock up. I had a friend bring his clean copy over and used his disc to install it to my 360 hard drive. Made it so my copy was only needed as a boot disc which saved me from having to buy a new one.
@@DP12321 yeah and it works so well because the Xbox just has to see what game is on the disc and nothing else. The entirety of the backwards compatible version of the game is downloaded over the internet and your disc is just sort of used as a key to play it. Of course if your disc is so screwed up that the Xbox can't even tell what's in it then you're kind of out of the luck
@Basement Dweller i think your Missing my point buddy. I meant that you could walk into a shop and buy a solid game, no weird glitches, you got the full experience. Most Dlc were not fundamental to the core functionality of the game, they were just some fun fun additions. But now developers will release unbaked games and promise to update them later through DLC.
@Basement Dweller look at Halo infinite and Halo 3. When Halo 3 came out it had more MP maps, split screen for both Mp and campaign, it also forge right when the game was released in stores you paid full price and got all these features. You got all these features without having to wait for some DLC to be released, which if you are paying attention to what I am saying is the exact same thing happening with Halo infinite.
Dam right man the 360 and ps3 era was the last time I truly enjoyed video games and the community around them there was just something about joining a party chat or in game voice chat at the time that gave me a once in a lifetime experience and I've never felt the same about gaming since I moved to PC after the end of 2013 and never since felt how I did plating halo cod fallout or a elder scrolls game
Had a lot of memories with my 360, Playing Skyrim while it was snowing outside, Playing GTA 4 and seeing how much of a technical leap it was from San Andreas etc.
Man I remember when I first played GTA 4 and was blown away by how amazing it looked and the story itself. I played the game religiously after school everyday lol. I hate that I missed out on Skyrim though but I'm sure it was amazing on the 360 at the time.
It looks fine today. If you have one of the last few flat screen CRT's they made in the 2000s, it looks perfect infact. Too bad the good ones weigh like 300 lbs
I remember installing a 250GB HDD to my elite. I grabbed one of the WD drives that you could flash a different firmware on instead of getting a MS drive and save a ton of money. Still works to this day.
I remember back then, anything labeled Microsoft is guaranteed price gouging. Compared to competition, with better prices. Especially for things you need.
My white 250 gig elite 360 was the first console I bought for myself as a young adult. It still works fine, and I still use it occasionally mostly for messing around with modded Borderlands 2 and Pre Sequel save files via Gibbed. It was never subjected to being cooked alive inside a closed up entertainment center, it was never left running sitting on carpet, it was never tormented by a child or pet knocking it around, etc etc. Like all my consoles I pull it apart every couple years to blow the dust out and reapply thermal paste, its amazing how long things last when you take care of them...
It didn't matter I got one at launch and treated it like gold. It rrod about a year into it. Very clean and taken care of. Always left laying down in a open and ventilated area. Yours just hasn't died yet... it will.
My first experience with the Xbox 360. My cousins Elite with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion... It sparked greatness moving on from a decade on my PS2 seeing consoles put out PC quality visuals and physics.
I got a 360 Elite on vacation of all places. I don't know if my dad was just in a silly goofy mood or something that day, but he just bought it for me in a random Walmart near the hotel. Idea being my pre-HDMI 360 would get passed down to my little brother. It actually had an E74 error out of the box, so we had to go back and exchange it. Having that massive 120GB hard drive was a game changer. I could only really have one game installed at a time on the 20GB HDD (which was more like 13GB usable) and that was usually reserved for Oblivion because trying to move between loading areas in that game while using tray and play was a nightmare. The big selling feature of the HDMI port wasn't something I got to use right away though. At the time I was using a CRT, though it was a HD CRT so I at least got to use component cables or the VGA cable if I took my 1280x1024 LCD to a friends house. Overall 10/10. Loved that box.
I feel you, I remember having the old white one and eventually it had the RROD. But a few months later on a vacation my dad just went up and bought me the 360s. I still have it today and sometimes I take a trip and play some old games on it
Have to say, the 360 is probably my favourite console of all time. Grew up on the PlayStation 1 and 2 (and love them - probably spent thousands of hours playing both, especially the PS2), but I feel the leap to HD gaming was an absolute game changer. Will never forget the first time I saw 360 gameplay in a local game store. Hooked up to a HD TV….. I was blown away. Couldn’t believe the graphics. This felt like the first truly digital console to nail everything. Loved the design, interface, controller, online play. This machine had the lot (and that’s before we even mention the games)!
360 is the goat. My first year owning a 360, I played Halo 3, Bioshock, Alan Wake and Dead Space. I was sold. My pc at the time was not able to run Bioshock (my old Radeon 9800 didn’t supported dx10), hence why I bought a 360. I still play mine a lot.
Got the Mass Effect 2 version at a garage sale from a guy who bought storage units at the time. Was fairly new and he sold it to me for $150. Best gaming purchase I made at the time.
this was my first xbox. died after 2 years, sent it in to microsoft, then the replacement died 2 years later again out of warranty. replaced it with the xbox 360 s and that's been going strong for over 10 years now
I remember going to Future Shop (a now defunct Canadian electronics chain) and buying the Resident Evil 5 Elite bundle that came with the red console. 13 years of heavy usage later, it still works as good as it did on day one. I bought this because the Jasper chip was reputed to be less susceptible to the RROD and I never had a problem.
Got my Elite at Futureshop too… it got a RRD in 2015 in the middle of Fallout 4. I ended up getting a Xbox 360 Slim which I still have and is pretty reliable.
Christmas Day 2008 I got my 360 elite, I was only 6 years old. Best times of my childhood spent with that system, waking up early to play halo before school. Only issue it ever had was the hard drive failing so had to replace it. I regret getting rid of it a few years back great memories!
My old 360 was a christmas present from my parents. Then it got red-ringed just outside of the warranty extension, so we had to pick up an Elite. That thing lasted me so long. The only part of it that broke was the disk drive and I ended up selling it. My Xbox One disk drive also broke... and I bought a ps3 in 2018 as a highschool graduation gift and the disk drive broke on that too... What is with breaking disk drives? I've used my PC more often than my ps3!
The 250gb models didn't have the rrod issue. I had a launch model which rrod 3 times and a Jasper which rrod twice. They were both well looked after, cleaned etc but the board itself would flex. Those early systems were hot.
I've had consoles die on me entirely after a long time of use (one dead phat PS3 to YLOD, one dead XB1 S) and damage from electrical surges during storms (phat PS3 that had a screwed up video signal after the surge) but no issues with disc drives. As far as I know the phat PS3 disc drives were way less prone to malfunction than the 360 with its disc tray. Did you have a super slim PS3?
@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams No, mine is a standard slim. I only used it to play through God of War 1, 2, 3, and Ascension and Metal Gear HD collection, 4 and Rising Revengence. I have some digital, but that's it. I took everything apart and it is all fine so I don't know why my PS3 disc drive is dead.
The thing a lot of people did not know is that you could pop open the hdd case and pop whatever size hdd you wanted in there and format it via the Xbox. Worked awesome. Edit: Nevermind he covered it lmao
Got the Elite as my first big purchase when I started working as a teen. My older brother bought the original Xbox because futureshop was out of PS2s. The 120gig HD was the biggest selling point for me plus the I preferred the dark system over the white. I don't even know if I knew what HDMI was at the time. I played endless hours of Halo 3 and Gears with the squad. Ended up RROD after 2.5 years but Microsoft replaced it at no cost to me. I just couldn't game for a couple weeks. 15 yrs later, I'm playing halo 3 on it with my son and he loves it.
I had the white 360 too, it worked great for years, one day playing bulletstorm it kept getting glitchy, then red ringed, I got a gamestop refurb, and it kept having connectivity issues with the controller, and red ringed the next day, so I just got the slim. Thank god I got it in time for the gears 3 beta! It was the only reason I even bought bulletstorm.
My mum bought me the PS3 in 07 even though she accidentally bought me a 360 leading to christmas before swapping it for the PS3 ready. Although I loved the PS3, the 360 no doubt won that generation and I later got the elite in 09. It was an incredible console, completing Halo 3 legendary with friends, 100% completing all L4D2 achievements, grinding MP on Gears 2. I miss those days so much.
Switched from the standard to the elite when it first released after the red ring, thing was a beast . Wish I didn't trade it in for the xbox one. Alot of the games I had in my library I wish I could go back and play. Still have the first 100 demo disc from the xbox Magazine subscription as well that includes the og xbox backwards compatible patches and the exclusive mini game building your spaceship and exploring.
I remember pre-ordering the 360 back in 2005 and getting this pack that included a controller, faceplate and PD0 & making of DVD even though it was 8 months out from launch at the time. Having been on Xbox live prior to the 360 the leap in progress that it took from a single console generation was crazy.
While I don’t have an elite, i do have the white 360 from the final fantasy xiii bundle. In 2009 for $400 it included the game, 2 wireless controllers, and a 250 gb hdd. It’s never quit on me through all of the fable 2 marathons I’ve done and still works fine to this day, except the disc drive that sticks open and closed, a little push or a tap, and she’s good to go
I had one guy arguing with me about a year ago that my very last revision of the Xbox 360 , my Xbox 360 E was an Xbox 360 Elite 😂. My Xbox 360 E doesn't have those two loud ass fans on the back of it and the HDD is the slot in version not the HDD that is external just like that one. I still have my Xbox 360 E for the few games that aren't backwards compatible.
I bought my brand new first Xbox 360 Elite in late 2009 the very same day the Raven Software "Wolfenstein" game came out, it was also the same day MS lower the new Elite price to $350 which was the ideal time to jump in. I bought a new copy of "GTA-4" for only $20 along with the"Wolfenstein" reboot that day. Never had any issues with it.
This exact model was my first Xbox I personally owned! I got the Xbox 360 Elite that came with Halo 3: ODST and Forza Motorsports 3... Still have this Xbox today and it still works.
I remember getting the Elite as my first 360. Sadly, I had a rough go of it. The disc drive died on me, and I had to send it in to get it fixed. I did this cycle three times before settling for a slim instead. I still have that slim to this day though!
I still have my gen 2 360 and still works, it heats up a lot so I dont play it for extremely long times but everything about it still works even after it got mt dew spilled in it
I've been after this exact model for a while now, it was my first ever HD console, I remember buying it in 2008 with GTA 4 and Moto GP 08. I was browsing through Facebook Marketplace when I came across a bundle of an Elite 120gb, 2 wireless controllers, a PC wireless receiver and 17!! games for 50 euros (50 dollars give or take). I was amazed at the condition everything was in, and in that bundle of games there were games such as Bully (Complete and mind condition), Sonic Unleashed, (surprisingly an expensive 360 game?) Orange Box, amongst other titles like Unreal Tournament 3, Halo 3 and 4, Rage, Bioshock amongst others! Ironically, the day I bought it, was the day you released this video!
I had an OG 360 with it's 20gb HDD. It RRoD after 15 months or so, sent it in for repair. Heard the Elite had come out, and promised myself if my 360 broke as it did, I'd upgrade. Waited on the repair, then traded it in for an Elite. That lasted 2 1/2 years before it bit the dust, so picked up a Slim. Which still works to this day.
The first model of Xbox 360 that I got was the Arcade model in 2010. I then had a Slim 360. I loved the game library on the 360. Great job on these console videos; I always love watching them!
I actually did a thermal paste replacement on one of these last year. I really like the look of it, but I’ll always prefer the Slim for actually functioning. Cool shelf piece though.
@@jonathansoko1085 I went through 2 OG models before getting my third with a slim One was due to the AV cable port going bad, the other was a red ring that happened 2 years later I eventually got a slim model, but I always thought it was visually a downgrade from the original white. Though I'm sure its easy enough to just do a modify these things now to not make them a problem
The Elite was my first 360, I bought it in July 2008 and it's still going strong, in fact I was playing Time Pilot on it this morning, the only thing that's ever gone wrong with it is the USB flap on the face plate broke
Still have my falcon V1 revision white Xbox 360. had it since christmas 2007. Had one RROD in 2009. My dad ended up fixing it for me since I was only 11 turning 12. but its worked since. and since then, eventually picked up a 120gb HDD salvaged from a 360 Elite that had an RROD. I just cant believe its already been 15 years. Playing it right now actually. Still using the same controller it came with since 2007. no stick drift, and still in near mint condition physically, however, does have some cigarette tar i still have to clean off. Took it to a friends house one time years back that smoked alot, and man made my 360 go from white to looking like the fallout 3 edition of it. Took so much time to clean all of that off my 360 itself. even then, theres still some very faint residue in spots that i just cant seem to get anymore. My 360 has seen alot over the past 15 years, brung arguably some of the best memories Ive had gaming. Was 10 when I got it, now im 25. I wonder if it'll still be kicking when im 35 or 40! 🤣
I scored a Xbox 360 elite with the Kronos motherboard for $20 at Goodwill about 2 months ago. Worked fine but I cleaned it and put thermal paste and it runs like a champ.
My experience was I had a original model I bought the 2nd year with Gears of War on Black Friday. It had a hard drive but no HDMI. It lasted till about April, then red ringed. I sent it to Microsoft to be fixed. I also had (still have) a launch model PS3. Although at the time Xbox was my primary system. When I got it back, I used it till the Xbox 360 Slim came out. Then traded it in for the slim because it had HDMI and a bigger Hard Drive. I still have my Slim 360, however, it is now packed in a box in my closet. After it, I moved though the PS4, PS4 Pro, to finally a PS5. I had a Xbox One at the time too but it was only for like exclusives. It wasn't until Xbox Series X and PS5 that I now play them equally. Funny thing now is like I said before the 360 is put away since most of what I like, I can play on Xbox Series X, but the launch model PS3 (now with a 1tb hard drive), still remains out and I power it up from time to time to play. I am pretty sure the only reason the PS3 still works is because I didn't play it as much during that generation. I barely turned the thing on back then. The only game that got the most play out of it was Final Fantasy 13.
That elite is from 2009 and therefore does not need the additional GPU heatsink since the chip was shrunk from 90nm to 65nm in 2008. The big heatsink was only used on later revisions of the original 90nm chip from 2006-2007. In 2008 65nm became the standard for the PS3 and 360 before a complete redesign of the consoles' form factor. Remember the non-backwards compatible fat PS3 with the matte finnish instead of the chrome? That was also a 65nm redesign.
I collect for all main consoles and handhelds. With a library that's on the the larger size, Its definitely safe to say, my 360 games, accessories and consoles take up the most room. I took over my best friends 360 and lib when he died 😭💔. Only use his prob like twice a year to reminisce, must keep it mint condition ❤️🔥. Love you too Jon 💜 w
MGS HD collection is a game i bought new for 40 dollars, like 2 weeks ago, great to see more people talk about the only way to play MGS HD collection games on Xbox series X, or One X
Had one since 2012, never getting rid of it since I usually end up playing my games on this more than on my xbox one since Enemy Territory Quake Wars and a few other honorable mentions will most likely never become backwards compatible with One, also big disc installs on 360 are smaller than modern day game installs so I'm never strapped for storage and I still roll with the same 120gig hard drive that it came with.
"I think it's a Jasper motherboard" *proceeds to show that it's a Jasper v2 or Kronos motherboard, aka, the most reliable 360 motherboard aside from the Trinity slims.
Just bought a fat 360 Core to relive some memories and to play some 360 games that haven’t come to backwards compatible. There are still a bunch of people playing Black ops 1, Skate 2, and so much more. Main reason I got a fat was this was the same console I had as a kid, and I know the slim is more reliable, quieter and compact, but I still wanted the same model I had as a kid. Plus I got the Falcon revision so it was less prone to the RROD. P.S if you want to get a Fat 360, Get either a Falcon: 2007 - 2008 or a Jasper: 2009 - Slim release.
My 360 E died March 2022 R.I.P. indeed. I've had fond memories of the 360 era countless hours on those systems a great game selection and online seen love that most titles are on Gamepass with backwards compatibility and the fact Design Lab exists you can make your updated 360 controller a cool way to preserve on of XBOXs best generation it looks like the Series X/S will shape out to be the same or be even better.
So many comments here of people saying they grew up playing PS2 and the 360. It makes me feel old. I grew up playing Atari, then had a Master System, after that when I was 12 my dad bought me a Mega Drive / Genesis and soon after he also bought me a Super NES and a Sega / Mega CD and those years with 16-bit consoles were the best ever in my opinion. The golden age of gaming. After that I started gaming on PC but wasn’t a hardcore gamer anymore. I was playing Doom, Heretic, Hexen and later Half-Life and the first NFS games. It was only in 2007 that I have played the Project Gotham Racing 3 demo on the 360 at a Virgin Megastore in London on an HD TV and WOW! I was amazed at the leap in graphics and that was the moment I decided to go back to consoles and the moment I became a hardcore gamer again. Fast forward all these years and here I am. 43 years old. Gaming is my favourite hobby and I love playing, watching and reading things about it. Still have my 360 which is one my favourite consoles ever and also a Series X and a Switch. I also use Retroarch to go back in time and play all those 16-bit games again. Once a gamer, always a gamer.
I would install my 360 games like COD and Civ just so that I could play Fullscreen coop with my friends or if we had more then 4 so we all could play together. by taking the disc out, from inside the console, after the game fully loaded and then put in it the other Xbox. It was a amazing for huge parties.
I bought an elite back in 2013 and I absolutely love it. I remember hearing about it and seeing pictures of it back in 2007 and I just fell in love. Probably my favorite model out of all the 360 models
That’s the bad boy I have paused upstairs rn while I take a break from mw2 campaign, original owner and zero issues over hundreds of hours of cod, zombies, borderlands, halo, splinter cell hell, I still play it constantly and it’s nostalgic every time
So there was an Arcade version that came with no storage (although memory cards were cheap by then) but was basically the same model with the HDMI port and I want to say it was $249. I got that in 2007 and I want to say it lasted me for about 4 years. I did get the RROD and the xbox repair, but ended up trading it in and buying a slim later. The slim is still kicking. Get the slim.
I miss my old 360 and its soul will never be missed and now I have a new one to replace it and his name is Jim 2.0, Nostalgic. Rip Xbox 360 Jim 1.0 2008 - 2017
Dude the wifi adapter and the wireless ear peace was super cool bro I remember playing nb2k8 group chatting and playing gears of war 2 holy shit still puts a smile on face when I see it 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Still have my OG 360 Elite. Picked up specifically for the HDMI and bigger HDD. I opened it up and cleaned it out about 6 months ago and still runs like a champ. I love that MS still sort of supports it as i got a Firmware update about a year ago and Cloud saves still work. Currently replaying the Boarderlands series and i love i can play on Xbox One X on my main TV, then move to my second TV with the 360 elite and pick right up where i left off. The 360 Controller is still one of my favorites to hold and use.
My first Xbox 360 was the pro, then my next one was the elite until I bought an Xbox One. I loved the elite so much I feel like I didn’t need to upgrade. The 120gb was big enough back then because you didn’t need to install games, but even if you did they were in the single digits for gb size. The only downside was I had to buy a Wi-Fi adapter that plugged into the USB port in the back, luckily there were slots for the thing to clip into so it wasn’t just dangling around on its own.
I remember buying a specific drive and flashing the proper firmware to get 500Gb for less than what the official product was. i absolutely loved how the experience was quick and quiet.
I have the Elite that's more gray than black. I think it's a Falcon. Still runs just fine, and actually quiet. Changed the thermal paste and stuff a few years ago. It actually outlived the slim I had which started getting extremely buggy and just slow for whatever reason. So I got rid of it and started using the Elite again until like 2015 until I got a xbox one. On PC now but I still boot it up now and then. Actually have a second network card just to bridge a connection between my PC and it cause i don't have the wifi adapter for it.
This was my first Xbox ever, still remember it like yesterday. Christmas 2009 I open up my last present and it's a brand new black Xbox 360 Elite with Halo 3 ODST. Thank you to my parents! I hooked it up immediately to our 60 inch HD tv and was amazed at how crisp everything looked (I came from a gamecube) and played all day, memories...
My First xbox ever! 😍 I from Brazil, my still remember, once in a business trip to Detroit, 2008, get into a Best Buy chasing a PS3 and manage to get "only" a 360 Elite bundle with HDMi cable, Halo 3: ODST & Forza Motorsport 3, Street Fighter 4 and an extra controller. It's not planned, but it became a love relationship till today, now with Series X (but I do have a PS5 also, now😅).
You know, I still play my Xbox 360 Slim today and it just hit me that I was very fortunate to have a lot of the delisted games on there like Marvel vs Capcom 2, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and even the first Shank game.
ths was my childhood 360, same year as as well, 2009. by 2014 i had to smack the top to get the disc drive to open and by 2018 the thing had red ringed and was pretty much dead completley. Still, good times, lots of nostalgia.
This is a Jasper V2 (also called Kronos), and it fixed the e74 failure. Most reliable Xbox 360, over the Slim and E. Have had mine since I got it new in May of 2010, no issues ever with daily use for 4-5 years, best version.
i bought a Slim when they came out because my OG white model got the RROD. It still works flawlessly to this day, whatever they did internally to fix stuff, it did its job. it even had built in wi-fi and HDMI too.
3:26 The revision you have is a Tonasket judging by the heat sinks at 7:29, which is superior in reliability to all Slim revisions 7:38 The older 360 copper CPU heat sink is better as it was designed to cool an 85W CPU and not the 41W CPU of later revisions 8:00 There were no issues with the way the boards were manufactured, the issue that caused the RRoD plague was the GPU chip 9:18 E74 is an error code related to a failure between the GPU and eDram chip die and not the HANA chip 9:40 The 65Nm chips did not introduce any issues that the older 90Nm chips didn't already have and, if anything fixed the issues Also, what's up with the 360p?
I remember getting this system a few years after release. I got a bundle with it for Christmas that came with Splinter Cell: Conviction and got CoD Black Ops on the side. I could've sworn it had a 250 GB HDD when I got it. Maybe it was just a higher package than the base Elite. It served me well, even through a couple of Red Rings. Still works, too. No more Red Rings, idk why.
I still have the original Elite. It’s the black version of the original model. It still works fine. I think they changed something inside fro the Red Ring scenario. So far so good 🤞
Brings back memories, had about 4 or the original white ones which all red ring of death on me, after the 1st RROD, I scoured my local classifieds for RROD 360's for cheap and tried to fix them with the nylon washers and new screws. It worked for a while until it RROD again, then I would get another broken for cheap and repeat the process. I now have the black elite and the later slim, which still works today. Both my 360's have the XK3Y installed, its pretty much a drive replacement mod, I load all my games from ext usb drive, as far as the 360 is concerned, it thinks there is a dvd disc inserted into the drive, so I can do the game install to the internal drive, again, you still need to mount the iso before you can play installed games.
I loved installing 360 games, I had a really scratched copy of Red Dead Redemption and the game would boot and run but eventually would freeze and lock up. I had a friend bring his clean copy over and used his disc to install it to my 360 hard drive. Made it so my copy was only needed as a boot disc which saved me from having to buy a new one.
I love that feature too.
Works great on X1 and XSX as well with scratched up 360 games.
Yes I had a completely destroyed mw2 disc but it still used to work I mean the inside ring was cracked. Wild how child me treated some of my games
Good for you 😑
@@DP12321 yeah and it works so well because the Xbox just has to see what game is on the disc and nothing else. The entirety of the backwards compatible version of the game is downloaded over the internet and your disc is just sort of used as a key to play it. Of course if your disc is so screwed up that the Xbox can't even tell what's in it then you're kind of out of the luck
I miss games of this generation. High quality but without all the monetization (for the most part)
Yeah buddy, I miss paying full price and getting a complete game
This console generation as well as the previous were the golden era of gaming IMO
@Basement Dweller i think your Missing my point buddy. I meant that you could walk into a shop and buy a solid game, no weird glitches, you got the full experience. Most Dlc were not fundamental to the core functionality of the game, they were just some fun fun additions. But now developers will release unbaked games and promise to update them later through DLC.
@Basement Dweller your not getting my point
@Basement Dweller look at Halo infinite and Halo 3. When Halo 3 came out it had more MP maps, split screen for both Mp and campaign, it also forge right when the game was released in stores you paid full price and got all these features. You got all these features without having to wait for some DLC to be released, which if you are paying attention to what I am saying is the exact same thing happening with Halo infinite.
I remember getting this when I was 11 years old after my white one broke and feeling so much excitement and joy. God I loved the 360 generation.
360/ps3 generation is the last truly great one due to the time it came out. Today, nothing is quite that exciting.
@@jonathansoko1085 Yeah that era was amazing for both ps3 and 360 and don't even get me started on Playstation Home. I miss those days.
Dam right man the 360 and ps3 era was the last time I truly enjoyed video games and the community around them there was just something about joining a party chat or in game voice chat at the time that gave me a once in a lifetime experience and I've never felt the same about gaming since I moved to PC after the end of 2013 and never since felt how I did plating halo cod fallout or a elder scrolls game
PS3 better
It was all about the 360 and Wii back then. To me the PS3 sucked. I am a huge 360 and Wii fan. I am getting a huge collection going for both of them.
15 years already?!?! Where did the time go 😔
We're getting old
@@Elkott 15 likes = 15 years
@@Elkott back when people would camp outside of GameStop for their preorders 😂
I know right. Back when gaming was at it's prime and everyone knew their gender 🤣
@@Elkott I remember when Super Nintendo came out.
Had a lot of memories with my 360, Playing Skyrim while it was snowing outside, Playing GTA 4 and seeing how much of a technical leap it was from San Andreas etc.
Man I remember when I first played GTA 4 and was blown away by how amazing it looked and the story itself. I played the game religiously after school everyday lol. I hate that I missed out on Skyrim though but I'm sure it was amazing on the 360 at the time.
Yeah I remember playing skyrim on my ps5 too…
It looks fine today. If you have one of the last few flat screen CRT's they made in the 2000s, it looks perfect infact. Too bad the good ones weigh like 300 lbs
The best Xbox 👌
@@JDisclmd ps5
I remember installing a 250GB HDD to my elite. I grabbed one of the WD drives that you could flash a different firmware on instead of getting a MS drive and save a ton of money. Still works to this day.
I remember back then, anything labeled Microsoft is guaranteed price gouging. Compared to competition, with better prices. Especially for things you need.
Yep and the only downside to not using an official MS drive I found is the shell says 120GB on my 250GB drive lol
@@philipboggs3372 guess they were in a rush making them at the time. Things happen. But 120 vs 250 that is a vast difference
@@philipboggs3372 mines 1tb in a old shell that just says "HDD" perfect setup. You just gotta find a original 20gb.
@@kadosho02 Still is today with the Seagate SSD expansion cards for the Xbox Series X!
My white 250 gig elite 360 was the first console I bought for myself as a young adult. It still works fine, and I still use it occasionally mostly for messing around with modded Borderlands 2 and Pre Sequel save files via Gibbed. It was never subjected to being cooked alive inside a closed up entertainment center, it was never left running sitting on carpet, it was never tormented by a child or pet knocking it around, etc etc. Like all my consoles I pull it apart every couple years to blow the dust out and reapply thermal paste, its amazing how long things last when you take care of them...
Word
It didn't matter I got one at launch and treated it like gold. It rrod about a year into it. Very clean and taken care of. Always left laying down in a open and ventilated area. Yours just hasn't died yet... it will.
@@mattymatt022000 The elites didn’t really have that problem. And if it’s lasted this long, I’m sure it’ll be ok
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@@GoldPoptart yes elites that did not have a jasper mobo failed like all the others. Nothing special about an elite besides the color.
My first experience with the Xbox 360. My cousins Elite with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion... It sparked greatness moving on from a decade on my PS2 seeing consoles put out PC quality visuals and physics.
Mine was Gears of War 2 🔥🔥🔥
Got the bundle version of it
I got a 360 Elite on vacation of all places. I don't know if my dad was just in a silly goofy mood or something that day, but he just bought it for me in a random Walmart near the hotel. Idea being my pre-HDMI 360 would get passed down to my little brother. It actually had an E74 error out of the box, so we had to go back and exchange it.
Having that massive 120GB hard drive was a game changer. I could only really have one game installed at a time on the 20GB HDD (which was more like 13GB usable) and that was usually reserved for Oblivion because trying to move between loading areas in that game while using tray and play was a nightmare.
The big selling feature of the HDMI port wasn't something I got to use right away though. At the time I was using a CRT, though it was a HD CRT so I at least got to use component cables or the VGA cable if I took my 1280x1024 LCD to a friends house.
Overall 10/10. Loved that box.
I feel you, I remember having the old white one and eventually it had the RROD. But a few months later on a vacation my dad just went up and bought me the 360s. I still have it today and sometimes I take a trip and play some old games on it
The best console!!!
Have to say, the 360 is probably my favourite console of all time. Grew up on the PlayStation 1 and 2 (and love them - probably spent thousands of hours playing both, especially the PS2), but I feel the leap to HD gaming was an absolute game changer. Will never forget the first time I saw 360 gameplay in a local game store. Hooked up to a HD TV….. I was blown away. Couldn’t believe the graphics. This felt like the first truly digital console to nail everything. Loved the design, interface, controller, online play. This machine had the lot (and that’s before we even mention the games)!
360 is the goat. My first year owning a 360, I played Halo 3, Bioshock, Alan Wake and Dead Space. I was sold.
My pc at the time was not able to run Bioshock (my old Radeon 9800 didn’t supported dx10), hence why I bought a 360. I still play mine a lot.
Best Consoles:
Sega Genesis
N64
PS2
XB360
Got the Mass Effect 2 version at a garage sale from a guy who bought storage units at the time. Was fairly new and he sold it to me for $150. Best gaming purchase I made at the time.
I remember getting a 360 elite for Christmas in 2009 and going to best buy on boxing day to get MW2. Those were the best days of my life.
Such a amazing time in gaming. Gaming felt so much more hard-core then
this was my first xbox. died after 2 years, sent it in to microsoft, then the replacement died 2 years later again out of warranty.
replaced it with the xbox 360 s and that's been going strong for over 10 years now
Mine's 17 years old, was refurbished by Microsoft and works fine.
I got the Elite for my 12th birthday in ‘09, and it still runs well to this day. It’s a good system.
I think this will always be my favourite console. Some amazing memories and just generally loved the way it looked as well.
I had Xbox 360 Elite and my friend told me about HDMI that makes everything crispy and I was mindblown good it looked.
I remember going to Future Shop (a now defunct Canadian electronics chain) and buying the Resident Evil 5 Elite bundle that came with the red console. 13 years of heavy usage later, it still works as good as it did on day one. I bought this because the Jasper chip was reputed to be less susceptible to the RROD and I never had a problem.
Got my Elite at Futureshop too… it got a RRD in 2015 in the middle of Fallout 4. I ended up getting a Xbox 360 Slim which I still have and is pretty reliable.
Christmas Day 2008 I got my 360 elite, I was only 6 years old. Best times of my childhood spent with that system, waking up early to play halo before school. Only issue it ever had was the hard drive failing so had to replace it. I regret getting rid of it a few years back great memories!
My old 360 was a christmas present from my parents. Then it got red-ringed just outside of the warranty extension, so we had to pick up an Elite. That thing lasted me so long. The only part of it that broke was the disk drive and I ended up selling it. My Xbox One disk drive also broke... and I bought a ps3 in 2018 as a highschool graduation gift and the disk drive broke on that too...
What is with breaking disk drives? I've used my PC more often than my ps3!
The 250gb models didn't have the rrod issue. I had a launch model which rrod 3 times and a Jasper which rrod twice. They were both well looked after, cleaned etc but the board itself would flex. Those early systems were hot.
I've had consoles die on me entirely after a long time of use (one dead phat PS3 to YLOD, one dead XB1 S) and damage from electrical surges during storms (phat PS3 that had a screwed up video signal after the surge) but no issues with disc drives. As far as I know the phat PS3 disc drives were way less prone to malfunction than the 360 with its disc tray. Did you have a super slim PS3?
@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams No, mine is a standard slim. I only used it to play through God of War 1, 2, 3, and Ascension and Metal Gear HD collection, 4 and Rising Revengence. I have some digital, but that's it. I took everything apart and it is all fine so I don't know why my PS3 disc drive is dead.
The thing a lot of people did not know is that you could pop open the hdd case and pop whatever size hdd you wanted in there and format it via the Xbox. Worked awesome.
Edit: Nevermind he covered it lmao
The 360 elite holds a special place in my heart as is the the first time i bought a console new with my own money. Still have it and it still works.
Got the Elite as my first big purchase when I started working as a teen. My older brother bought the original Xbox because futureshop was out of PS2s. The 120gig HD was the biggest selling point for me plus the I preferred the dark system over the white. I don't even know if I knew what HDMI was at the time. I played endless hours of Halo 3 and Gears with the squad. Ended up RROD after 2.5 years but Microsoft replaced it at no cost to me. I just couldn't game for a couple weeks. 15 yrs later, I'm playing halo 3 on it with my son and he loves it.
Love to see this. Can’t wait til the day I can play games I grew up with my son as he’s growing up
I had the white 360 too, it worked great for years, one day playing bulletstorm it kept getting glitchy, then red ringed, I got a gamestop refurb, and it kept having connectivity issues with the controller, and red ringed the next day, so I just got the slim. Thank god I got it in time for the gears 3 beta! It was the only reason I even bought bulletstorm.
I'm sitting here right now playing Tomb Raider Underworld on mine. Love this system, will never get rid of it.
My mum bought me the PS3 in 07 even though she accidentally bought me a 360 leading to christmas before swapping it for the PS3 ready. Although I loved the PS3, the 360 no doubt won that generation and I later got the elite in 09. It was an incredible console, completing Halo 3 legendary with friends, 100% completing all L4D2 achievements, grinding MP on Gears 2. I miss those days so much.
Switched from the standard to the elite when it first released after the red ring, thing was a beast . Wish I didn't trade it in for the xbox one. Alot of the games I had in my library I wish I could go back and play. Still have the first 100 demo disc from the xbox Magazine subscription as well that includes the og xbox backwards compatible patches and the exclusive mini game building your spaceship and exploring.
I remember pre-ordering the 360 back in 2005 and getting this pack that included a controller, faceplate and PD0 & making of DVD even though it was 8 months out from launch at the time.
Having been on Xbox live prior to the 360 the leap in progress that it took from a single console generation was crazy.
While I don’t have an elite, i do have the white 360 from the final fantasy xiii bundle. In 2009 for $400 it included the game, 2 wireless controllers, and a 250 gb hdd. It’s never quit on me through all of the fable 2 marathons I’ve done and still works fine to this day, except the disc drive that sticks open and closed, a little push or a tap, and she’s good to go
My Elite is still going strong. I love how the console looks and the library is insane.
Video says, “No stream. Tap to retry”
Same here
video is probably still processing, should be good in a few minutes
I had one guy arguing with me about a year ago that my very last revision of the Xbox 360 , my Xbox 360 E was an Xbox 360 Elite 😂.
My Xbox 360 E doesn't have those two loud ass fans on the back of it and the HDD is the slot in version not the HDD that is external just like that one.
I still have my Xbox 360 E for the few games that aren't backwards compatible.
The E any good?
@@KrisVic91 I don't know I don't take drugs.
I bought my brand new first Xbox 360 Elite in late 2009 the very same day the Raven Software "Wolfenstein" game came out, it was also the same day MS lower the new Elite price to $350 which was the ideal time to jump in. I bought a new copy of "GTA-4" for only $20 along with the"Wolfenstein" reboot that day. Never had any issues with it.
This exact model was my first Xbox I personally owned!
I got the Xbox 360 Elite that came with Halo 3: ODST and Forza Motorsports 3... Still have this Xbox today and it still works.
Halo 3, Reach, MW2 good memories
I remember getting the Elite as my first 360. Sadly, I had a rough go of it. The disc drive died on me, and I had to send it in to get it fixed. I did this cycle three times before settling for a slim instead. I still have that slim to this day though!
I still have my gen 2 360 and still works, it heats up a lot so I dont play it for extremely long times but everything about it still works even after it got mt dew spilled in it
Still got my 360 elite to this day. Lovely console. Many memories and awesome games with this bad boy
I've been after this exact model for a while now, it was my first ever HD console, I remember buying it in 2008 with GTA 4 and Moto GP 08. I was browsing through Facebook Marketplace when I came across a bundle of an Elite 120gb, 2 wireless controllers, a PC wireless receiver and 17!! games for 50 euros (50 dollars give or take). I was amazed at the condition everything was in, and in that bundle of games there were games such as Bully (Complete and mind condition), Sonic Unleashed, (surprisingly an expensive 360 game?) Orange Box, amongst other titles like Unreal Tournament 3, Halo 3 and 4, Rage, Bioshock amongst others! Ironically, the day I bought it, was the day you released this video!
11:00 I had to go back to this scene three times because the optical illusion caught me by surprise.
Still have mine after all these years. Fond memories.
I had an OG 360 with it's 20gb HDD. It RRoD after 15 months or so, sent it in for repair. Heard the Elite had come out, and promised myself if my 360 broke as it did, I'd upgrade.
Waited on the repair, then traded it in for an Elite. That lasted 2 1/2 years before it bit the dust, so picked up a Slim. Which still works to this day.
The first model of Xbox 360 that I got was the Arcade model in 2010. I then had a Slim 360. I loved the game library on the 360. Great job on these console videos; I always love watching them!
I actually did a thermal paste replacement on one of these last year. I really like the look of it, but I’ll always prefer the Slim for actually functioning. Cool shelf piece though.
Really does suck that those first few 360 models are so issue prone, because they're probably the coolesst looking consoles ever put out
@@Dasaltwarrior The only problem i ever had with og models is the disc drive always failing
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I went through 2 OG models before getting my third with a slim
One was due to the AV cable port going bad, the other was a red ring that happened 2 years later
I eventually got a slim model, but I always thought it was visually a downgrade from the original white. Though I'm sure its easy enough to just do a modify these things now to not make them a problem
@@Dasaltwarrior360 elite falcon and jasper are bulletproof. Ignore this slim baby
The Elite was my first 360, I bought it in July 2008 and it's still going strong, in fact I was playing Time Pilot on it this morning, the only thing that's ever gone wrong with it is the USB flap on the face plate broke
Still have my falcon V1 revision white Xbox 360. had it since christmas 2007. Had one RROD in 2009. My dad ended up fixing it for me since I was only 11 turning 12. but its worked since. and since then, eventually picked up a 120gb HDD salvaged from a 360 Elite that had an RROD. I just cant believe its already been 15 years. Playing it right now actually. Still using the same controller it came with since 2007. no stick drift, and still in near mint condition physically, however, does have some cigarette tar i still have to clean off. Took it to a friends house one time years back that smoked alot, and man made my 360 go from white to looking like the fallout 3 edition of it. Took so much time to clean all of that off my 360 itself. even then, theres still some very faint residue in spots that i just cant seem to get anymore. My 360 has seen alot over the past 15 years, brung arguably some of the best memories Ive had gaming. Was 10 when I got it, now im 25. I wonder if it'll still be kicking when im 35 or 40! 🤣
I remember I got the elite with splinter cell conviction and 2 controllers bundle and also picking up mw2, man those were some good memories
I scored a Xbox 360 elite with the Kronos motherboard for $20 at Goodwill about 2 months ago. Worked fine but I cleaned it and put thermal paste and it runs like a champ.
My experience was I had a original model I bought the 2nd year with Gears of War on Black Friday. It had a hard drive but no HDMI. It lasted till about April, then red ringed. I sent it to Microsoft to be fixed. I also had (still have) a launch model PS3. Although at the time Xbox was my primary system. When I got it back, I used it till the Xbox 360 Slim came out. Then traded it in for the slim because it had HDMI and a bigger Hard Drive. I still have my Slim 360, however, it is now packed in a box in my closet. After it, I moved though the PS4, PS4 Pro, to finally a PS5. I had a Xbox One at the time too but it was only for like exclusives. It wasn't until Xbox Series X and PS5 that I now play them equally. Funny thing now is like I said before the 360 is put away since most of what I like, I can play on Xbox Series X, but the launch model PS3 (now with a 1tb hard drive), still remains out and I power it up from time to time to play. I am pretty sure the only reason the PS3 still works is because I didn't play it as much during that generation. I barely turned the thing on back then. The only game that got the most play out of it was Final Fantasy 13.
And immediately, MGS HD Collection 360 jumped up in price.
Jaspers are immortal
I currently have the Xbox 360 Elite Jasper currently on RGH. Never been more happier having it and still running perfectly.
That elite is from 2009 and therefore does not need the additional GPU heatsink since the chip was shrunk from 90nm to 65nm in 2008. The big heatsink was only used on later revisions of the original 90nm chip from 2006-2007. In 2008 65nm became the standard for the PS3 and 360 before a complete redesign of the consoles' form factor. Remember the non-backwards compatible fat PS3 with the matte finnish instead of the chrome? That was also a 65nm redesign.
This was my only 360 I ever had. My brother still has it. Still works. No red ring.
I collect for all main consoles and handhelds. With a library that's on the the larger size, Its definitely safe to say, my 360 games, accessories and consoles take up the most room. I took over my best friends 360 and lib when he died 😭💔. Only use his prob like twice a year to reminisce, must keep it mint condition ❤️🔥. Love you too Jon 💜 w
MGS HD collection is a game i bought new for 40 dollars, like 2 weeks ago, great to see more people talk about the only way to play MGS HD collection games on Xbox series X, or One X
My first xbox 360 was an elite 250gb. Still works perfectly
Had one since 2012, never getting rid of it since I usually end up playing my games on this more than on my xbox one since Enemy Territory Quake Wars and a few other honorable mentions will most likely never become backwards compatible with One, also big disc installs on 360 are smaller than modern day game installs so I'm never strapped for storage and I still roll with the same 120gig hard drive that it came with.
I still have my Elite, in the original box. Haven't used it in a while, but it still works.
"I think it's a Jasper motherboard" *proceeds to show that it's a Jasper v2 or Kronos motherboard, aka, the most reliable 360 motherboard aside from the Trinity slims.
I love the 360... Bioshock, Modern warfare, Skyrim, Gears of War Trilogy, Mass Effect 2... so many great gaming memories!!
I never seen that battery powered one like in the first few seconds. Amazing
Still have to tools to mod 360s. Used to flash the disc drives with a cfw, allowing burnt games to play.. good times.
I got one of these after my launch console red ring’d. Still use it on occasion today
It's so weird to me that you posted this. Just three days ago I opened and cleaned my 360 elite and started playing on it again.
Just bought a fat 360 Core to relive some memories and to play some 360 games that haven’t come to backwards compatible. There are still a bunch of people playing Black ops 1, Skate 2, and so much more. Main reason I got a fat was this was the same console I had as a kid, and I know the slim is more reliable, quieter and compact, but I still wanted the same model I had as a kid. Plus I got the Falcon revision so it was less prone to the RROD.
P.S if you want to get a Fat 360, Get either a Falcon: 2007 - 2008 or a Jasper: 2009 - Slim release.
My 360 E died March 2022 R.I.P. indeed.
I've had fond memories of the 360 era countless hours on those systems a great game selection and online seen love that most titles are on Gamepass with backwards compatibility and the fact Design Lab exists you can make your updated 360 controller a cool way to preserve on of XBOXs best generation it looks like the Series X/S will shape out to be the same or be even better.
So many comments here of people saying they grew up playing PS2 and the 360. It makes me feel old. I grew up playing Atari, then had a Master System, after that when I was 12 my dad bought me a Mega Drive / Genesis and soon after he also bought me a Super NES and a Sega / Mega CD and those years with 16-bit consoles were the best ever in my opinion. The golden age of gaming. After that I started gaming on PC but wasn’t a hardcore gamer anymore. I was playing Doom, Heretic, Hexen and later Half-Life and the first NFS games. It was only in 2007 that I have played the Project Gotham Racing 3 demo on the 360 at a Virgin Megastore in London on an HD TV and WOW! I was amazed at the leap in graphics and that was the moment I decided to go back to consoles and the moment I became a hardcore gamer again. Fast forward all these years and here I am. 43 years old. Gaming is my favourite hobby and I love playing, watching and reading things about it. Still have my 360 which is one my favourite consoles ever and also a Series X and a Switch. I also use Retroarch to go back in time and play all those 16-bit games again. Once a gamer, always a gamer.
I would install my 360 games like COD and Civ just so that I could play Fullscreen coop with my friends or if we had more then 4 so we all could play together. by taking the disc out, from inside the console, after the game fully loaded and then put in it the other Xbox. It was a amazing for huge parties.
Cap , game returns to dash when disc drive is opened
This is the 360 that I still use to this day. Had mine since 2009, and it's going strong
After my 360 Slim red ringed I gave up and got a PS3. Haven't bought an Xbox since.
15 years and I still have mine. Now only if that disc tray could open
That's just a dirty/worn out drive belt, easy fix
I remember installing the 4 discs for Lost Odyssey. It took forever but so worth it. That was a great feature.
I bought an elite back in 2013 and I absolutely love it. I remember hearing about it and seeing pictures of it back in 2007 and I just fell in love. Probably my favorite model out of all the 360 models
That’s the bad boy I have paused upstairs rn while I take a break from mw2 campaign, original owner and zero issues over hundreds of hours of cod, zombies, borderlands, halo, splinter cell hell, I still play it constantly and it’s nostalgic every time
So there was an Arcade version that came with no storage (although memory cards were cheap by then) but was basically the same model with the HDMI port and I want to say it was $249. I got that in 2007 and I want to say it lasted me for about 4 years. I did get the RROD and the xbox repair, but ended up trading it in and buying a slim later. The slim is still kicking. Get the slim.
I miss my old 360 and its soul will never be missed and now I have a new one to replace it and his name is Jim 2.0, Nostalgic.
Rip Xbox 360 Jim 1.0
2008 - 2017
Dude the wifi adapter and the wireless ear peace was super cool bro I remember playing nb2k8 group chatting and playing gears of war 2 holy shit still puts a smile on face when I see it 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I remember my mum getting me this and the guy at game lending us the cable to transfer all the stuff off of my old hard drive, what a guy
Still have my OG 360 Elite. Picked up specifically for the HDMI and bigger HDD. I opened it up and cleaned it out about 6 months ago and still runs like a champ. I love that MS still sort of supports it as i got a Firmware update about a year ago and Cloud saves still work. Currently replaying the Boarderlands series and i love i can play on Xbox One X on my main TV, then move to my second TV with the 360 elite and pick right up where i left off. The 360 Controller is still one of my favorites to hold and use.
My first Xbox 360 was the pro, then my next one was the elite until I bought an Xbox One. I loved the elite so much I feel like I didn’t need to upgrade. The 120gb was big enough back then because you didn’t need to install games, but even if you did they were in the single digits for gb size. The only downside was I had to buy a Wi-Fi adapter that plugged into the USB port in the back, luckily there were slots for the thing to clip into so it wasn’t just dangling around on its own.
Oh yeah, the 1st 360 I bought. Had a much longer time before I got the Red Ring of Death then got the one with the Kennect.
I remember buying a specific drive and flashing the proper firmware to get 500Gb for less than what the official product was.
i absolutely loved how the experience was quick and quiet.
I have the Elite that's more gray than black. I think it's a Falcon. Still runs just fine, and actually quiet. Changed the thermal paste and stuff a few years ago.
It actually outlived the slim I had which started getting extremely buggy and just slow for whatever reason. So I got rid of it and started using the Elite again until like 2015 until I got a xbox one.
On PC now but I still boot it up now and then. Actually have a second network card just to bridge a connection between my PC and it cause i don't have the wifi adapter for it.
I remember skipping the elite, because of the rumor of a slim version on the horizon. I went for the slim, like many others.
I actually bought one when it was on sale. Solid device, had a fun time with it.
This was my first Xbox ever, still remember it like yesterday. Christmas 2009 I open up my last present and it's a brand new black Xbox 360 Elite with Halo 3 ODST. Thank you to my parents! I hooked it up immediately to our 60 inch HD tv and was amazed at how crisp everything looked (I came from a gamecube) and played all day, memories...
My First xbox ever! 😍 I from Brazil, my still remember, once in a business trip to Detroit, 2008, get into a Best Buy chasing a PS3 and manage to get "only" a 360 Elite bundle with HDMi cable, Halo 3: ODST & Forza Motorsport 3, Street Fighter 4 and an extra controller. It's not planned, but it became a love relationship till today, now with Series X (but I do have a PS5 also, now😅).
You know, I still play my Xbox 360 Slim today and it just hit me that I was very fortunate to have a lot of the delisted games on there like Marvel vs Capcom 2, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and even the first Shank game.
I still have my 360 elite that my mom and dad gave to me for Christmas still running strong till this day.
As a matter of fact they made an Xbox 360 elite in white as part of the FF13 and I love it so much since it’s a guaranteed jasper Kronos
Lil fact, the revision is known as Tonasket. Kronos is the GPU
ths was my childhood 360, same year as as well, 2009. by 2014 i had to smack the top to get the disc drive to open and by 2018 the thing had red ringed and was pretty much dead completley. Still, good times, lots of nostalgia.
This is a Jasper V2 (also called Kronos), and it fixed the e74 failure. Most reliable Xbox 360, over the Slim and E. Have had mine since I got it new in May of 2010, no issues ever with daily use for 4-5 years, best version.
Jasper V2 is really known as the Tonasket and E74 was fixed by revised GPUs in mid 2008. A Kronos GPU is still able to get E74, though super unlikely
This is the 360 I remember and loved. Never knew the hdmi wasn't present beforehand. This look was as good-looking as the slim was imo
Blue Dragon was also a pretty awesome rpg for the 360. Man, got to appreciate a good clean interior every time. 👌
i bought a Slim when they came out because my OG white model got the RROD. It still works flawlessly to this day, whatever they did internally to fix stuff, it did its job. it even had built in wi-fi and HDMI too.
3:26 The revision you have is a Tonasket judging by the heat sinks at 7:29, which is superior in reliability to all Slim revisions
7:38 The older 360 copper CPU heat sink is better as it was designed to cool an 85W CPU and not the 41W CPU of later revisions
8:00 There were no issues with the way the boards were manufactured, the issue that caused the RRoD plague was the GPU chip
9:18 E74 is an error code related to a failure between the GPU and eDram chip die and not the HANA chip
9:40 The 65Nm chips did not introduce any issues that the older 90Nm chips didn't already have and, if anything fixed the issues
Also, what's up with the 360p?
I remember getting this system a few years after release. I got a bundle with it for Christmas that came with Splinter Cell: Conviction and got CoD Black Ops on the side. I could've sworn it had a 250 GB HDD when I got it. Maybe it was just a higher package than the base Elite. It served me well, even through a couple of Red Rings. Still works, too. No more Red Rings, idk why.
I still have the original Elite. It’s the black version of the original model. It still works fine. I think they changed something inside fro the Red Ring scenario. So far so good 🤞
Yeah, the Jasper revision was known to have resolved the RROD plague.
I had the 360 back in 2007. Got it for Christmas from my parents and it lasted 4 years before finally red ringing a very sad day
I LOVE my Xbox 360 Elite
Apart from disc Drive Problems, IT ran all the years *SMOOTH*
Brings back memories, had about 4 or the original white ones which all red ring of death on me, after the 1st RROD, I scoured my local classifieds for RROD 360's for cheap and tried to fix them with the nylon washers and new screws. It worked for a while until it RROD again, then I would get another broken for cheap and repeat the process. I now have the black elite and the later slim, which still works today.
Both my 360's have the XK3Y installed, its pretty much a drive replacement mod, I load all my games from ext usb drive, as far as the 360 is concerned, it thinks there is a dvd disc inserted into the drive, so I can do the game install to the internal drive, again, you still need to mount the iso before you can play installed games.