Re: Just got the Elite, but no data transfer kit
11/18/09 5:57 pm | #22
IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW FOR PEOPLE BUYING AN ELITE
Ok I bought an elite recently, and did thorough research before hand. Make sure what ever you do, buy an Elite with a Jasper chip, and not a falcon or Zephyr chip in it. The Jasper runs quieter, and has had zero issues with the RROD. The others have issues with RROD.
This next bit of info is sickening. So in my research I found that most of the Elites that are bundled with games have the old chipsets. Some even had manufacturing dates back to 2007. Yet they had bundled games that came out in mid 2008. The reason was Microsoft was taking out the hardware from old xbox systems, and packaging them in elite cases.
They were putting nearly all Jasper chips into the Arcade version because they found them to be the fastest sellers. Up to when I purchased my elite, the only elites that had a Jasper chip was the Resident Evil collectors edition. I bought that one, and it runs like a beauty. Silent, you can't even hear it, and loads so quickly. The MW2 collectors edition has the Jasper chipset in it, but I know for a fact that most of the bundled elites don't. So beware! You may be purchasing a "new" elite, but it might be old stock from 2007.
How you can tell if it has a Jasper chip is on the box, there is a whole where the serial number is, on the actual console. They will scan this when you purchase it. Look and it will list the voltage of the machine. if it says 12,1A then its a jasper. If it says 12V 14,1 or 16,5 then it is a Falcon, and AVOID!!!!!!!!!!!!