[Boost King]

It cost me $1 for a box to mail my 360 in on my own. I'd pay that to save 10 days for sure.

Personally in regards to MS repairs lets think this through logically.
My elite has the 90nm chip inside it right. But the elite also had better heatsyncs etc as well. Its not entirely the chip only that made the difference, it was many other factors. So if MS restores my console to the same specs as it was sold to me, they are 100% guaranteeing themselve that my console will fail again, guarenteed. I think MS may have to insert the new motherboard and chip, plus issue me with a new power supply, then I am sure my 360 wont break. But what is the cost to do this? Are there other tricks used by MS to improve the original machines life? Do they put 10 times as much thermal paste to stop that GPU detatching? I dont know. But I do think MS will do what they can given its a) Cost effective and b) viable and certain it will imrpove the machines reliability so that future returns are less likely.

I also told MS that I DO NOT WANT A REFURB UNIT. I dont want someother twats console. I want mine fixed. Period.

I can only hope. Put it this way, if my serial number is different, MS is going to get a stern phone call.

If all else fails, I'll buy a new core console with a MF date of 2008, thats what I found in our local store.

Surely one can assume all 2008 models are falcons?