Filed under: Uncategorized
This is the question I asked myself prior to acquiring the knowledge; at first I always thought that all disk media quality was the same and that the only difference between the more expensive ones and the cheaper ones were brand name. I soon found this to be untrue after an hour or two of googling, basically the cheaper DL media will work on your xbox360 however the quality of dye used on these disks is far lower than on more expensive disks, the consequence of putting a DL disk in your 360 is that it puts more strain on your DVD drive laser resulting in your DVD drive packing in far earlier than it should.
Top 3 are as follows;
*Verbatim (Must have the right dye)
*Datasafe
*Ridisc
For xbox360’s the problem of which DL media brand to use should not be of importance at the end of November, once Microsoft release the new dash board update which enables you to run you games from your hard drive so long as you have the game in the drive, which will cut down the demand on your DVD laser. One last thing to note when making a backup is to only burn at 2x, you will find you get the best results, and end up will less coasters, also there are some dvd burners that work better than others, Pioneers have the best success rate.
Filed under: Console Modifications
The xbox360 rrod affects around 30% according to a report published earlier this year; this in my opinion is disgusting. Prior to receiving the rrod, I thought that it only happened due to a combination of things, for example when people were playing for multiple hours along with the xbox360 being placed in an unventilated area. I found this to be totally untrue when I receive the dreaded rrod a few weeks ago, there are many suggested methods available on the internet that claim to fix your xbox360, seen as though I have been unable to test all of these methods are can’t say for sure that they don’t work however one method I would advise you to avoid would be the towel method.
There are three methods which claim to fix your xbox:
* Microsoft 5 Stars (Despite it taking over six weeks for the fixing)
*X-Clamp fix – this is a less tricky one to evaluate given the wide range of different x-clamp methods, however given llamma.com highly reputable past in console modifications, I would suggest you follow their guide which is available on their website. I would not suggest you trying one of the other spin-of websites out there that’s sole purpose are to sell you some “custom kit” to fix your 360. Also note that these websites methods don’t involve drilling your xbox360 case which sounds great, however, these methods will only result in your motherboard becoming warped, and ultimately resulting in further damage.
*Towel method – There are a number of videos floating around the web that show this so called ‘towel method’ whereby you turn your xbox360 on, cover it with around three towels and then wait 15 minutes for it to get really hot. I’m not disputing the fact that this method may well work, what I am disputing is the length of time it will work for after doing it, many people claims it’s only a few hours.
