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I've done the xclamp replacement on both mine and my friends 360. Mine took quite a bit of persuading, but my mates has been fixed with $4 worth of materials in 2 hours. Funny, the day I fixed mine I rang my mate up all happy and warned its not if it happens to yours, its when. Next day, bam! three reds'. Mine had only 1 red light the first time, but after fixing the gpu side the cpu was out giving me 3 reds. The first error wouldnt be covered under this new warranty btw.
Combination of; cheap as motherboard material (flexes under heat cycles), cheaping out again with how they attach the gpu/cpu chips (bga, which the flexing helps crack the joints of) and the cooling of it (grossly inadequate!). Thats your mass (about 33%) failure rate right there. How much would it have cost to do it properly? Nowhere near 1billion dollars.
Combination of; cheap as motherboard material (flexes under heat cycles), cheaping out again with how they attach the gpu/cpu chips (bga, which the flexing helps crack the joints of) and the cooling of it (grossly inadequate!). Thats your mass (about 33%) failure rate right there. How much would it have cost to do it properly? Nowhere near 1billion dollars.
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