First Picture of Xbox 360 'Opus' Motherboard Options

[Xbox-Scene]

First Picture of Xbox 360 'Opus' Motherboard Posted by XanTium | July 29 14:25 EST | News Category: Xbox360

Electric Tuner over at the xbox-underground.net forums posted what seems to be the first picture of the Xbox360 'Opus' Motherboard. The 'Opus' is a 'Falcon' generation motherboard designed to fit in a Xenon case. So that means a 90nm GPU, a 65nm CPU and no HDMI port. Microsoft will probably mostly use these boards to return to people suffering from the RRoD on Xenon boards. That seems to match the with the picture below ... it has no HDMI port and while we cannot see the CPU/GPU chips it uses the new CPU heatsink and has less inductors next to the CPU which indicates it uses the 65nm chip. Also notice how this Opus board has the HANA scaler/video chip (like the zephyr/falcon boards) ... so it's maybe not impossible to hack your own native HDMI port to these motherboards. Picture News-Source: xbox-underground.net

[Reaper527]

thats great news. i have a RRoD launch box that i was holding onto in hopes of getting an opus when i send it in for repair. (on the hopes that what i get back won't die any time soon,as the launch box is going to be out of its 3 year RRoD warranty pretty soon).

i'll probably fill out the repair order next week or the week. hopefully i'll get back an opus, and it ends up being as stable as my falcon box.

[Wilhelm_I]

Hmm this makes no sense to me.
Why are they using the HANA chip if there is not even an HDMI port, this is pretty cheap.
All they did was create a new(old) AV plug...
If you get your hands on one check out if you can recover the HDMI port, the traces will most likely still be there....
Sounds quite cheap but since it is just a way to recycle the cases it is a "smart" move from a business point of view at least.

*EDIT*
LOL Just read the description, forget what I said here^^

This post has been edited by Wilhelm_I: Jul 29 2008, 08:31 PM

[gamerfreak1727]

OH YEAH, they actually posted it!

[Ultraison]

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This post has been edited by Ultraison: Jul 29 2008, 09:52 PM

[eduardor2k]

I think they are suing the HANA chip because it's cheaper to produce one chip than two.

Good news, now i want to see it with a 65 nm GPU!

[no0b123]

Great news! It's unfortunate this wasn't done right the first time though.

[Bandit5317]

Cool, good to see that those with a RROD xenon aren't just getting f***** over and over again with equally unreliable boards.

[HSDEMONZ]

Well.. the is no guarantee that these newer boards will live longer or fare better. We are hopeful though that with the improvements it will be better.

(knock on wood)

[jimbobjim]

Falcons still suffer from the rrod, so I see no reason why these boards will be any different.

As we all know, 99% of 360 faults are GPU related, yet for some reason MS have failed to address this properly in any board revision.

Jasper will likely be the first reliable board.

[HotKnife420]

There's Falcons with the RRoD? Interesting. I thought the lower power consumption + smaller dye + heatsink improvement took care of it. Perhaps they're still using low-grade solder...

I find it interesting that the Opus is toting a 90nm GPU and 65nm CPU. As long as we've been de-clamping boxes, you'd think they would've done it the other way around. Reminds me of an Aqua Teen episode..

Err: I said it was a bill. I thought you knew something I didn't.
Ignignokt: I DID know something I didn't...it just wasn't that.

[Sarek]

What's the latest word on Jasper? Any chance the 60 GB units will have Jasper?

Someone's already spotted some 60 GB units in the wild over here :

60 GB units spotted

[Pseudo99]

Wow, I'm sorry, I didn't realize what I had come across one of these boards a couple weeks ago. I noticed the
changes in the board and heatsink, but I didn't know it was newsworthy. It was sent back from a RROD repair, too.

[xannax]

The xbox I received back from MS repair center has this board. Just got it a week ago. Also had the unhackable dvd drive though.

[rrg]

I want that CPU heat sink.

My mods keep my GPU cool now (I removed the DVD rom) but that whippy launch box CPU gets warm and starts the fans a spinning.