Talk:Xbox 360 hardware
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[edit] Welcome
This is the talk page for the Hardware of the Xbox 360 article and only the hardware article. For an article, or discussion of other aspects, please seen the main Xbox 360 article and its talk page
It says "The console uses an external power supply with a 5A / 100–120V AC input" - this may be true of the US power supply, but mine (UK) is marked as "200-240V @ 2.7A" 87.194.60.87 19:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- I agree, just giving the US numbers basically makes the article wrong/lying. Feel free to edit the actual article just like did this Talk page. Retodon8 (talk) 08:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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- Unfortunately, my looking at what it says on my power supply probably falls under the category of "Original Research" :-) 87.194.60.87 (talk) 19:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Performance Issues
What about the hardware malfunctions the console has become notorious for? Little detail is provided on the main 360 page about this, and it might be worth mentioning how the new hardware revisions have affected hardware performance issues (if at all). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.160.59.248 (talk) 23:09, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- There's articles by gaming, hardware, media, etc., websites that can be linked as reference, but in the end they know little more about it than us consumers. In other words, Microsoft probably isn't giving any hard facts (numbers) when it comes to hardware defects (any time soon), so it's difficult to say anything that's completely true but still useful to readers. "Some (?) people had lots of (?) problems with their console hardware, but newer hardware will probably (?) lessen the amount of hardware defects." is true, but not really useful. Retodon8 (talk) 08:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
There is actually a dedicated Wikipeida article about it Xbox 360 technical problems--8bitJake (talk) 04:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Motherboard revisions
I am debating about writing a section about the various Xbox 360 motherboard designs. Xenon, Zephyr, Falcon and then Jasper, Opus and Valhalla --8bitJake (talk) 04:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- Go ahead, the article is missing information of the first motheboards, such as the Zephyr, Falcon) --MarioV (talk) 01:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Harddrive Connector
The article currently states 'The 2.5" hard drive is connected through a SATA interface and spins at 5400 rpm.' I am new to the XBox 360, so could be wrong but, as I understand it the XBox 360 doesn't connect directly to to the harddrive using a standard SATA or ESATA interface. As I understand it Microsoft have a proprietary connector for connecting the hard drive unit to the XBox 360 - and the unit then connects to the hard drive internally using a standard SATA connector.
Reading the article it would appear that you could simply plug any (E)SATA drive into the XBox 360 using standard (E)SATA cables - which is very misleading if it is not the case. User:Anon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.163.165.185 (talk) 11:38, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I added the word "Custom" to the section. Hope that clears it up.--8bitJake (talk) 17:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
