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I hate it. Give me an option to kill the quite frankly god awful Avatar crap and give me a list of Online/Offline friends like before and I might use it more. If I wanted stupid cartoon characters I'd have bought a Wii FFS.
 
I hate it. Give me an option to kill the quite frankly god awful Avatar crap and give me a list of Online/Offline friends like before and I might use it more. If I wanted stupid cartoon characters I'd have bought a Wii FFS.

I'm sorry... was the operating system of the console a deciding factor in your purchase rather than the games you play 90% of the time? Grow up.
 
I hate it. Give me an option to kill the quite frankly god awful Avatar crap and give me a list of Online/Offline friends like before and I might use it more. If I wanted stupid cartoon characters I'd have bought a Wii FFS.

Just press the globe and there is your list of friends ;)
 
Like this so far, only been using it for about an hour and feels so much better to use. Not installed any games yet, really need the bigger hdd as I'm still on a 20GB.
 
Like this so far, only been using it for about an hour and feels so much better to use. Not installed any games yet, really need the bigger hdd as I'm still on a 20GB.
Think it's time I got a new one, installed GOW2 and it's almost full.

Why is it again I have a 20gb HDD but can only use 10Gb of it?
 
Well, so far so good. Seems like a nice update, runs smoothly and I especially like the copy to HD function. Not wanting to shell out £60 to Microsoft for a bigger HD though :(

I've had my console coming upto 2 years and *touch wood* it's been great. I do leave it to idle for 10 minutes before turning it off though.
 
Well, so far so good. Seems like a nice update, runs smoothly and I especially like the copy to HD function. Not wanting to shell out £60 to Microsoft for a bigger HD though :(

I've had my console coming upto 2 years and *touch wood* it's been great. I do leave it to idle for 10 minutes before turning it off though.

Leaving to idle is far worse than turning it straight off as you speed up the cooling process, increasing wear on the components.
 
That's a good pont, although if the GPU/CPU temp is higher (after a hard gaming session) when you turn the machine off, there'll be no airflow to remove the heat. As it's sat there idling, the heat left in the heatsinks will be comparatively less and therefore less heat on the components.

My Xbox is still in warranty but I'm so tempted to rip it to bits and mod it to hell (cooling wise).
 
My launch xbox still runs fine, though gears 2 made the DVD drive make some strange buzzing noises =/

So glad I can install it now!
 
Heat isn't what kills components, it's heat cycling though (Or rate of change of temperature to be more precise). Since there is no more heat being generated when you turn it off it will cool naturally at a slow pace.

On the other hand you can't save a 360 by being careful with heat really without replacing the x-clamps so you may as well keep doing what works for you. :)
 
Has anyone else bought a premium theme yet,

I just purchased the Castle Crashers theme and it looks fairly decent :)
 
How smooth is gameplay now?


EDIT: for the GTA IV post

I have just installed GTA IV on the HDD and the game runs a lot smoother and makes the game a hell of a lot more enjoyable imo.

I think I will get into this game more now and complete it.
 
I was thinking of getting the Fable II theme as that looks pretty cool. Is there any way of previewing them though? I thought they would surely give you that option rather than you just taking a risk on something willy nilly. It's only because I've seen the Fable II theme on kotaku that I know what it's like.
 
Anyone getting extreme lag when playing online?

I join games in Gears of War 2 and when the match starts my character is bopping all over the place and the chainsaw/bullets are not registering. Was in the middle of Horde earlier on wave 31 and I disconnected.

I'll leave it until tomorrow, i guess it's just everyone downloading NXE.
 
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