Question about premium Xbox 360

juancaretta · May 04, 2008, 01:06:10 PM

Does the premium 20gb xbox 360 come with component video cables? The one with 3 RCA for video and 2 for audio. Also, do they get the red lights very often? I'm thinking about buying a modded one, with the Falcon motherboard, and it only has 3 months of warranty.

754boy · May 05, 2008, 12:07:03 AM

Quote from: juancaretta on May 04, 2008, 01:06:10 PM
Does the premium 20gb xbox 360 come with component video cables? The one with 3 RCA for video and 2 for audio. Also, do they get the red lights very often? I'm thinking about buying a modded one, with the Falcon motherboard, and it only has 3 months of warranty.

All 360s come with component cables, except that Arcade. It has composite.

juancaretta · May 05, 2008, 07:26:51 AM

Thanks for the reply. What about the red lights? Reading about dead consoles got me worried about that. Also, for the same money I could buy an AMD Phenom 9500+, 2gb of ram, a GeForce 8600GT XXX and a mainboard, what do you think it's better?

754boy · May 05, 2008, 12:46:35 PM

Quote from: juancaretta on May 05, 2008, 07:26:51 AM
Thanks for the reply. What about the red lights? Reading about dead consoles got me worried about that. Also, for the same money I could buy an AMD Phenom 9500+, 2gb of ram, a GeForce 8600GT XXX and a mainboard, what do you think it's better?

Try and go with the new 9600GT. I have one in my PC and its great. Keep your 360 well ventilated and you shouldn't have to worry about the RRoD. Mine has been going strong for over 8 months and nothing has happened yet. Also, where the hell could u get a PC with those specs for the same price as a 360???

juancaretta · May 05, 2008, 02:00:41 PM

Not the whole PC, just the CPU, mainboard, RAM and VGA. All that for about 700 dollars, which is the same price of a premium 360. Buying the 9600GT would bump the price for another 100 dollars, and that's a little over my budget. Btw, I'm in Argentina, and the prices are ridicously high (a Wii is around 600 dollars, and a 40GB PS3 around 800 dollars)

754boy · May 08, 2008, 11:13:14 AM

Quote from: juancaretta on May 05, 2008, 02:00:41 PM
Not the whole PC, just the CPU, mainboard, RAM and VGA. All that for about 700 dollars, which is the same price of a premium 360. Buying the 9600GT would bump the price for another 100 dollars, and that's a little over my budget. Btw, I'm in Argentina, and the prices are ridicously high (a Wii is around 600 dollars, and a 40GB PS3 around 800 dollars)

Wow, those prices are VERY high

sonicwind · May 10, 2008, 07:57:46 PM

at this point why go amd? and quads really don't have much practical use based on the fact that you want to game. if your going to get a pc look at the E7200 that just came out, only 140$, ram is 50$ at most for 2x1GB ram, you can get a 9600GT for 120 after rebate, and whatever motherboard you want, maybe a gigabyte p35 ds3l for 100. thats around 400$ us which is a little more than a pro would cost here.

juancaretta · May 10, 2008, 08:25:10 PM

As I said earlier, I'm in Argentina, and the E7200 is 250 dollars, a 9600gt is 250 dollars, 2x1gb is around 70-80 dollars, and a mainboard is 150 dollars, around 700 dollars, which is the same price the 360 is here. For a little more, I could buy a 20gb 360 with 2 wireless controllers (800 dollars premodded)