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Verteiler
verteiler at juro.at
Wed Sep 22 07:51:19 EDT 2004
Well I spent over 300€ for my mini ipx epia pc and with the xbox
retailing at about 150€ at the moment there is a big margin for a mod
chip ...
I would like to use the xbox primarily as a mythtv frontend, but do not
want to give up the possibility of gmaing with ist.
What do you mean with "bells and whitles"?
Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote:
> Hey
>
> It depends on how much you want to spend. The modchips out there all
> do the same /basic/ things, i.e. your able to flash a hacked BIOS to
> any of the chips out there. Thats all your /need/, and in fact you
> dont even need a modchip, you can do a softmod ( mod the xbox thru a
> software glitch in some versions of Mech Assault and a 007 game). Do
> you want to get a modchip? If so, Id recommend any of teh X2 series of
> chips, the X2.6 is the most recent. I also use the SmartXX chips,
> which have quite a bit more of the bellss and whitles than other
> chips. The same people who make the X2s are comming out with the X3
> this month as well, which also has alot of bells and whitles. Head
> over to xbox-scene.com and check out ther reviews there. Read up on
> what you want it to do (do you want it to be a game console as well,
> or just a mythtv frontend) and then decide what, if any, chip you want.
>
> Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
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