I've gotten word that the "Opus" Xbox 360 motherboard is now shipping and will be included in the repair and refurbish (RnR) operations at Xbox. This means that folks who have their 1st generation "Xenon" Xbox 360 die on them with the Red Ring of Death (or a Core Digital error as Microsoft internally call it) might get a new motherboard. This is a newer "Falcon" generation chip set with a cooler 65 nm CPU but no HDMI port.
If anyone finds an "Opus" Xbox 360 in the wild send me an email at "8bit @ 8bitjoystick . com"(No spaces) with photos and I'll post them and give you mad props.
An Opus Xbox 360 will have the following:
1. It will be mailed to you by Microsoft Xbox repair after your Xenon Xbox 360(No HDMI) died and you mailed it in.
2. It will have a power adapter that will take 175 Watts of power.
3. No HDMI but it will run cooler and quieter than your old Xbox 360 and hopefully much more reliably.
It will be interesting to see how many dead Xenon Xboxens are going to be replaced with Opus motherboards.
Also work on the "Jasper" Xbox 360 is going well and is on track to be out first week in September.
Your old faulty Xenon board is replaced with a refurbished mobo that are fitted with the gpu heatsink and that is the only difference. It is still the same Xenon board but with an additional gpu heatsink.
I work fixing xbox 360's by the way.
in the xbox 360 with hdmi port what type of mother board is used and what are the chances of rrod in it.
It is available in india
anyword on this bein real. i got my 360 replacement in the mail yesterday with a manufacture date of march 2008. any way of tellin if its an opus board?
Yeah it's real. It's out.
anyone knoe the telltale signs of havin an opus board in your box short of opening it up?