Falcon is so last month: new Xbox 360 Jasper models sneak into retail

Red Rings bringing your Xbox 360 down for the count? Microsoft‘s still trying to make ends meet, albeit still a bit too late for some. The big MS is doing it quietly too: the new Xbox 360 Japser motherboards, which supposedly have the RRoD-proof(?) 65nm GPU chips, have been spotted in the wild without much fuss from the console manufacturer.

Red Rings bringing your Xbox 360 down for the count? Microsoft‘s still trying to make ends meet, albeit still a bit too late for some. The big MS is doing it quietly too: the new Xbox 360 Japser motherboards, which supposedly have the RRoD-proof(?) 65nm GPU chips, have been spotted in the wild without much fuss from the console manufacturer.

On the outside, your most obvious clue would be the power brick (err, did someone say brick?) and cord. The new Jasper model’s power supply is now running on 150W – as opposed to the Falcon’s 175W – with the plug changed to prevent usage on a former 360 model.

According to the reports, another change is the onboard flash chip which has been pumped up from 16MB to a whopping 256MB, supposedly for an easier time with NXE installation without requiring an external drive. Of course, the memory upgrade isn’t only for NXE – you can still use t for game saves and other media.

With the hardware changes introduced in the Jasper, the new Xbox 360 is now expected to run smoother (and quieter), use less power, and of course, curb over-heating.

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Via Xbox-Scene