Inside the 60GB Xbox 360 - Bottom RAM Chips Gone

Dr3v0 · 08-07-2008, 05:57 PM

Inside the 60GB Xbox 360 - Bottom RAM Chips Gone

>> Benheck got his hands on a new 60GB (Pro) Xbox 360 console.

Essentially it's nothing more than a 20GB 'Pro' console with the external HDD swapped out to a 60GB model.

However opening new SKUs is always interesting as they often have a recent manufacturing date.

Benheck's 60GB 360 was made on June 20th 2008.

Motherboards are probably the same across all different SKUs, but the date a certain motherboard revision goes in production can differ per factory plant and production line.

So what's interesting here? ... the motherboard has HANA/HDMI, 90nm GPU, 65nm CPU, 175W PSU, the GPU heatsink with the 'addon' and the new CPU heatsink without the copper heatpipe ... so basically it looks like a normal Falcon board.

The DVD drive found in this console was the new Lite-On DG-16D2S we're starting to see more and more these days.

But Benheck found a difference ... the RAM chips at the bottom of the board are gone (so the 4 chips on the top must have doubled in capacity).

Ah, I have found a difference! This is the first Xbox 360 I have seen that does not have the bottom-mounted memory chips. I had heard on the interwebs these have been a heat problem in the past (or moreso that people fixed problems by improving their heat sink to the case) so I'm sure this will help performance as well as aid cost reduction.

News-Source: benheck.com

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Xbox-Scene News: Inside the 60GB Xbox 360 - Bottom RAM Chips Gone

Ackermonster · 08-07-2008, 06:08 PM

YOINK

Inside a 60 gb XBOX360

beat ya! ! ! lol

Dr3v0 · 08-07-2008, 06:22 PM

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