360 Upgrading Advice Please

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Have had my faithful 360 Premium for a couple of years now and it still manages to impress and entertain me after all this time with no probs whatsoever. However... I am thinking about an upgrade and hopefully someone can enlighten me.

- Are all elites/premiums now 175w and Falcon chipsets and HDMI enabled?

I can't see the point in upgrading unless its to the latest version... (but are there other versions I should avoid?)

- can you still use an original VGA cable instead of a HDMI cable?

I am using my trusty Dell 2405 for the time being before I upgrade to an LCD so therefore would like to know if you can still use a VGA cable on a HDMI enabled 360?

I basically want to upgrade to 120Gb and HDMI - I would have happily kept my current premium and simply bought a 120Gb HDD and leave it at that except that I want HDMI too. So far I have the following options:

- Trade mine in for £140 and pay £170 for a HDMI Premium and £70 for a 120Gb HDD totalling £100 upgrade cost

- Trade mine in for £140 and pay £230 for an Elite which comes with the 120Gb HDD (plus its pretty in black!) totalling £90 upgrade cost

Are there any easy ways to spot what type of chipset/wattage your 360 will have? And finally, which would you do? (please don't say buy a PS3! :p)
 
That sounds like such a waste of money.

If you really need a bigger hard drive then just buy one, don't spend £170 upgrading because HDMI really isn't much of an improvement, if at all.
 
weringo said:
That sounds like such a waste of money.

If you really need a bigger hard drive then just buy one, don't spend £170 upgrading because HDMI really isn't much of an improvement, if at all.
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I thought HDMI was the way to go nowadays? I tried the component cable and hate it compared to my VGA cable (plus I can get 1080p from it for my HD-DVD collection). When I upgrade to a larger LCD TV, surely HDMI will be the way forward if I wanted to also connect my PC via VGA at a later point? Also, it wouldn't be £170 upgrading, it would be either £100 for the HDMI premium and separate HDD or £90 for the elite which comes with the 120Gb HDD.
 
Unless you have a TV that for some reason handles VGA badly, you will see next to no difference over HDMI.

If you want a bigger HDD, google it or look on You Tube for a video guide.
 
my reason for wanting to move over to HDMI was so that I could use the PC connection for the PC VGA instead of the current 360 VGA connection.
 
I would trade it in and go for your last option pay the extra £90 for an elite.
Thats what i did a short while ago.
Its pointless getting another 360 with a 20gig h/drive more so if you want to do this.
Play from hard drive. Copy your games from the game disc and play directly from the hard drive. Not only will the drive not spin, but load times are quicker, as well. Of course, you will still need the disc in the tray to prove you own the game.

The model with the falcon chipset have a 175watt power supply.
175 watts is written on the box
 
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ian flowers said:
I would trade it in and go for your last option pay the extra £90 for an elite.
Thats what i did a short while ago.
Its pointless getting another 360 with a 20gig h/drive more so if you want to do this.
Play from hard drive. Copy your games from the game disc and play directly from the hard drive. Not only will the drive not spin, but load times are quicker, as well. Of course, you will still need the disc in the tray to prove you own the game.

The model with the falcon chipset have a 175watt power supply.
175 watts is written on the box
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I think this is what I will do then. Just gotta make sure that its deffo a 175w model. Altho werent all elites 175w from the start or am I mixing this up with the falcon chipset?:confused:
 
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