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Should You Buy an Xbox 360?

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Do you have (or plan to buy)a PS3, or an Xbox 360? I have four Xbox 360′s, and love them. One of our viewers sent me in his top 5 list for Xbox, so I wanted to share them!

  • Go Wireless! If you can afford to go wireless, I strongly suggest to do so. Not only is it a more pleasant gaming experience but you will save a fortune on AA batteries with the rechargeable one that comes with the Wireless control pad. On another note its one less thing to trip over, and if you have a wireless receiver on your Xbox, you can plug this into quite a lot of hardware via USB and use your Xbox 360 control pad to operate your software (e.g) your PC, Mac.
  • Keep It Legal! A lot of people these days are getting there Xbox 360′s chipped, Hacked, Jailbreaked or whatever it’s called this week. I know it sounds like common sense to keep it legal but you’d be surprised how many people are attracted to the cheap ” chipped ” games. The problem arises when you choose to play Xbox Live, because you can’t go live once your Xbox has been hacked! At least you can’t here in the U.K. And if you ask me, or any other Xbox 360 gamer, Xbox live is what it’s all about. So keep it legal.
  • Factory Reset! I know this sounds unfair but as we all know, Microsoft are well known for bugs, glitches & crashes. Well there’s no exception to the Xbox 360 as they get them too. Every once in a while, My Xbox 360 will freeze, crash and sometimes even restart themselves. If these problems become more and more apparent (like they did on mine) perform a factory reset in System Preferences and it should cure the issue. It certainly worked for me & my friends. You don’t lose any saved data and your logins and gamer score are kept as they were. All in all, a sure fire way to knock those problems on its head.
  • Clear Your Cache! For a while I was struggling with logging onto Xbox live on a game because I needed to download an update, the update I downloaded never worked and you go round and round in circles until you throw your console out the window! Anyway, this is really useful piece of information and hardly anyone knows of it. It’s easy to do too! This can be done by going to the Dashboard, selecting System, Memory, and then pushing Y as shown on the screen. Then, use the button code X, X, Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X, X. Select “yes” to perform the maintenance, and then try the update again. The update should now install just fine and you shouldn’t have any problems logging onto Xbox live. I hear this even frees up a little memory, which is always great.
  • HD? SD? Get Your Settings Correct! Upon buying my 42 inch plasma television I was running my Xbox 360 into this under the setting of 480p. I couldn’t quite put my finger on why the resolution wasn’t as good as my friends. And because I was a newbie to all this technology and settings (as 80% of the market is) I didn’t know that I wasn’t getting the full potential of the High Definition. And after 5 minutes on Google I came to the conclusion my settings weren’t correct. Now I know it sounds stupid but I just didn’t think to check, and most people don’t. So when you get your Xbox 360, whether its being hooked up to a 720p Plasma, or a 1080i LCD make sure your settings are correct. You can do this again in Settings where you can alter your screen resolution because TRUST ME, a lot of people are running there Xbox 360 consoles through a great television and not using them to their potential.

Anyway Chris, I wish someone told me these tips when I bought my Xbox 360 and I hope you can pass these on to the community or even your friends.
E ya later.
Pete Chapman. United Kingdom.

Hi Chris,

I watched your youtube video about the top 5 tips for xbox 360 and that got me thinking about some of the issues the 360 has or had ( depending on peoples past experiences). Im not sure how many people are aware of the 360 motherboards debate these days but reading through litterly hundreds of forum posts i always see nervous dad’s or mothers wanting to ask us “nerds” which 360 to buy there young son or daughter. At the present time xbox 360′s are shipping with falcon motherboards which have better heatskins and a hdmi port (for the newer pro model) and they have had a CPU die shrink to 65 nm to reduce power consumption and heat output. There is even another revision comming out in August 08 called Jasper which includes a GPU die shrink aswell. So what i would like to know is why dont microsoft ever release this information ?. Its always people snooping around that find out what they are doing and then when nervous mothers and dad’s ask for a opinion they get 10000 replys with all these different answers. There are even hundreds of cases i have heard that people will deliberatly get there 360′s to crash and give them the Red Rings of Death because if they send it back for repairs Microsoft will send them one back with the newer upgrades, i mean come on thats not how a gaming console should be should it ? Im not trying to bad mouth the xbox 360 as a console, infact i think its great, best games and graphics but abit more consumer friendly information would be great instead of making people check the manufactering dates as there are still old and newer 360′s out there in the market.
So thanks for your tips

Regards
Charles

P.S oh by the way. i have a tip, to keep the 360 cooler stand it vertically with the on button at the bottom

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