Seems like the Xbox 360 Elite article has gotten a lot of attention of late so I decided to talk about it a little more.
Just blowtorch your 360 and you too can look under the GPU.
In this “addendum” I’ll talk about the heat sinks, wicks in the heat pipes, and the DVD drive, since the scratched discs thing is also a concern.
Almost a full year now! In this episode:
We also go through the Mascot Contest entries and pick a winner “live”. Well, sort of live.
“Rex”, the winning entry, by Gus Douboulidis.
Listen to Benheck.com Podcast Episode 25
You can see the rest of the entries by clicking below.
Our new podcast is going to be delayed a few days by the Basement of Jones (as in he needs to work on it) so the deadline for the mascot contest is pushed back as well. Basically, when the new podcast goes up, the contest is over. So you’ve still time to get entries in. Sketches are fine but the better the art, the better your chances!
Again, an example of what NOT to enter, unless it’s really funny of course.
In other news, sorry about the lack of updates, I’m working on a lot of stuff but none of it is finished yet. Naturally you can hang around the forums or the wiki, so hopefully this site isn’t completely boring.
Today’s podcast is all about the Xbox. Specifically what we think Microsoft is doing wrong, or just plain not doing, with their advertising schemes. Since Jones and I are clearly marketing experts with a better grasp of things than a multi-billion dollar global behemoth it is our duty to tell the world how the people in Redmond should be pitching this thing. Because hey – we just want to help.
Sort of the way Xbox is rolling these days.
Listen to Benheck.com Podcast Episode 24
In other news the first batch of Audio FX Pro 5.1 headsets have arrived from across the pond and will be showing up in stores very soon. I’m running a contest where the prize is yet another pair, signed by me no less! Here are the rules:
Suggestions of what NOT to enter.
Send all entries to benjamin.heckendorn@gmail.com by July 31st, 2007. We’ll also show the best runners-up. Have fun!
I’ve started the next Xbox 360 laptop and it’s going to use the Elite guts, allowing for a digital video connection among other things. I was very curious to see what changes, if any, were made inside the unit to account for the infamous “Red Ring of Death” problems. What I found was reassuring, at least for anyone buying the Elite, and provided some clues as to what might be happening in the defective units.
So for a guided tour in classic Ben style click below. I made the pictures nice and big because I personally can’t stand it when I try to find out what something looks like inside only to find postage-stamp sized pics that were probably taken with a 1997 Mavica.
Since Microsoft has apparently decided to “Fix ALL the consoles!” it seemed like a good time to re-release the audio intro from episode 13 of our podcast. It’s a movie trailer parody called “Lord of the Rings of Light” where a group of heroes have to return a broken Xbox 360 “from whence it came”.
Remastered in high-quality MP3 format, enjoy and have a swell remainder of a holiday weekend! Lord of the Rings of Light.
Yet again I am moving to a bigger and better server, hopefully this will improve speeds. Site traffic / visits have increased quite a bit in the last month, which is good, but there’s some growing pains to go along with that.
If you’re an active forum member please keep an eye out for annoucements of when the transfer will occur (probably sometime this weekend) so you do not lose posts or data. I’d also suggest people go easy on the Wiki until the new server goes up to keep people from loosing data there as well.
We’ll keep you posted!