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No 65nm Falcons Lurking Inside of New HDMI Xbox 360s

While our hopes were never high, we wished nonetheless that the new HDMI Xbox 360 Premiums would also come packed with the elusive cooler 65nm process chipset ("Falcon") we've been drooling into our pillows over at night. Our slobbery dreams have been shattered by "wonderkins," a NeoGAF member who busted open his shiny new HDMI 360 to reveal what appears to be "Zephyr" guts. But, it does have a quieter Benq DVD drive. Hey, it's something. [NeoGAF via Kotaku]

9:45 AM on Tue Aug 14 2007
By Matt Buchanan
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SchruteBuck at 10:10 AM on 08/14/07
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LAME
europria at 10:31 AM on 08/14/07
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You didn't need open the box. Just look at power adapter. If it is smaller than the current brick, you got yourself a more power efficient unit.
jennyfur at 10:40 AM on 08/14/07
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/cry

Oh well, guess I just have to wait a bit longer to buy one.
Wayde at 10:47 AM on 08/14/07
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Isn't the overheating problem supposed to be resolved with this new version?

If it doesn't have Falcon it would seem not unless they've found another way.
MaoChan at 10:57 AM on 08/14/07
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I like how you put Kotaku's ass print all over a photo that isn't theirs to begin with.
solgae1784 at 11:19 AM on 08/14/07
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They do have newly designed heatsinks on place.
BostonPimpDaddy at 11:37 AM on 08/14/07
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I sure hope by Christmas they have the new chipset. I'd like to sell my old xbox and grab an elite with the new chipset.
daftrok at 12:46 PM on 08/14/07
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Its something, yes, but I don't want to flip a coin to see if my console eventually breaks. I wanna roll 100 dice and pray to God I don't get snake eyes. But that's just me.
St3v3 at 02:14 PM on 08/14/07
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This makes me a sad gamer :( Come on PS3, release some games so I can justify the purchase.
NateN at 02:19 PM on 08/14/07
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@MaoChan: Easy there killer. The guy who took the pictures requested the watermark.

"If Shacknews (BuddyC or ChrisRemo), Gaming-Age (Jim), or Kotaku ('cause you guys have guts to spare) would like the full-size, unalderated photos, I would be more than happy to provide them. All I ask is that you watermark them with your respective site logo and link back to the discussion at Gaf."
chrgra at 03:37 PM on 08/14/07
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Well actually though the 65nm chipset would be very efficient in cooling the 360, it would be cheaper and also effective for Microsoft to just add a proper heatsink like the one in some 360's that were repaired from Red Ring problems. I think MS isn't adding 65nm chips because they might also be thinking about the new 45nm chips that there chip company is allegedly making.
saeder at 04:03 PM on 08/14/07
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Rumors have it there's been some problems with the 65nm chips so they've been delayed. There's a very lengthy thread that's been going on over in the xbox.com forums about falcon, zephyr and 65nm chips:

[forums.xbox.com]
steelwurm at 11:44 PM on 08/14/07
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Not yet in the premiums, but I've been reading that Elites manufactured after mid-July do have the 65nm chips. [and if it's on the internet, it must be true]