ArtisticallyChill

Trading up towards the new Xbox 360? My inside source, codenamed Wildo, has informed me of the promotional pricing plan for those wanting to trade in their old Xbox 360 systems for the newer, slimmer, whisper quieter, and more prone to fingerprints with its shinyness, Xbox 360[slim].

The trade-In price list:

Systems
All — $100

HDDs
20 GB HDD — $30
60 GB HDD — $35
120 GB HDD — $40
250 GB HDD — $50

Memory Cards
64 MB Memory Card — $10
256 MB Memory Card — $14
512 MB Memory Card — $18

Adapters
Wireless adapter – $40
Wireless N adapter (disc required) – $50

Controllers
Wired Controller – $20
Wireless Controller – $25

Of course, you can trade other stuff as well to lower the cost of the new Xbox 360: other consoles, their games and their accessories too.

~ LoneWolf

It’s been a little over a week since my PC Upgrade 2006 event, and so far my PC is running great! Windows XP Pro actually loaded on my first try! Yeah, no odd blue screens with weird, undecypherable messages, no system beeps, no files failed to copy. After XP Pro, came updates and Service Pack 2. Drivers installed without a hitch. Since I have no SATA drives yet, I re-installed my PCI Raid card and after the drivers installed, my original RAID array was found and Windows accepted the volume. WOOT! Photoshop CS2 installed fine. Guild Wars installed and looks freakin’ sweet with my new video card. Finally installed F.E.A.R. and the game looks and plays awesome! A few more ‘appz’ to install and that will finish off this round of upgrades.

2006 PC Upgrade:

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory
BFG Tech BFGR6600GTOCX Geforce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply
THERMALRIGHT XP-90 Multiple Heatpipes Cpu Heatsink
ZALMAN FB123 92mm Sleeve Cooling Fan (0nly used the fan, though)

What’s up for the next round? Another video card and a new LCD monitor, WHAT?!

~ LoneWolf