Original Xbox or Gamecube? (I bought an Xbox)

almoststew1990 · 19 Aug 2024 at 18:23

I've owned neither of these and I'm not sure which I want to get. I've priced up two baskets on CEX (I've got a £60 voucxher) for about £120-£130 and could get either of these:

XBOX £70
Project Gotham Racing 2 £1
Forza Motorsport £4
Fable £3
Enter the Matrix £1
Midtown Madness 3 £6
Shenmue 2 £8
Sega GT 2002 £5
Crimson Skies £5
Galleon £4
Headhunter Redemption £2.50

GAMECUBE £75
Mario Sunshine £18
Star Wars Rogue Leader £6
Windwaker £35

With both options I would have course be buying more games over time.

Which would you go for?

almoststew1990 · 7 Sep 2024 at 07:27

Neither. Whenever I price it up on CEX I see the delivery costs and then when I go into town they only have the GameCube and Rogue squadron then I think things like “you don’t really have space to plug it in, it will look crap on your tv so it would have to be plugged into your work desk tv/monitor which handles interlacing better so it will be in the way” and then I go home lol.

almoststew1990 · 8 Sep 2024 at 13:29

Well I made a decision and bought an xbox with my CEX vouchers I'd built up over the past year or so. I went ahead with it after reading that motherboard revision 1.6, which fixes the clock capacitor issue, is associated with a 14/03/04 or later mfg date. The one in CEX was 18/03/04. Cutting it a bit fine but it is later right!?

The xbox is immediately on -1000 points becuase it has not been future-proofed to fit inside the IKEA square cabinet things like most of my other consoles and even my ITX PC:

So the fatty is going next my work desk like I feared:

I load it up and check the revision and... it has the older 1.5 motherboard (based on LGR having the same K: number)

So I can now either use it until it dies and get another one with the CEX 2 year warranty or I can "own it" and open it up, clean it out, solder a new cap in (never soldered before), maybe put in the IDE to SATA mod for a quiet drive of some kind...

almoststew1990 · 10 Sep 2024 at 17:04

I decided to go with the 'own it' option and opened it up and cleaned it out of dust. I snipped off the clock capacitor which has barely leaked at all. I clened up the tiny spillage directly under the cap as best I could. I replaced the thermal paste and I have ordered the recommended fan upgrade (Noctua 60mm) plus the 3D printed mounting bracked. I was looking at how I could replace the clicky IDE drive with a SATA drive but that seems to require quite a kerfuffle and softmodding which is a minor kerfuffle so I'll pass on that for now. Clock cap is the bottom left with the blue dot.

Nice

Clean finally