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Xbox 360 chipped (chiped): Do you need to get it?

You might consider getting your Xbox 360 chipped or chiped if you wish to play games which you have downloaded from the net or backed up using your burner. Since a chiped Xbox 360 can play even non-original disks, it is seen as a great way to save the money spent in buying games. But it comes with a few cons of its own.


Firstly, getting you Xbox 360 chipped or chiped is risky in that you lose all warranty. Furthermore, there are quite a few mod chips available but getting your Xbox 360 chipped or chiped is still a job which is notoriously unreliable since these chips tend to fail often.


By far the most important consequence of getting your Xbox 360 chipped is the possibility of getting a red ring or even the infamous three red rings of death in the future. A majority of users having a Xbox 360 chipped have experienced this. If you do not have warranty during this time, you are but staring down the barrel.


A chiped Xbox 360: is it riskier than it's worth?

Most people tend to think so. Getting the Xbox 360 chipped saves a lotXbox 360 chipped: does xbox chiped lead to red rings? of money as you can download your games from the internet for free and play them! But the loss of warranty, lack of reliability and propensity towards failure weigh in heavy for the Xbox 360 chipped or chiped.


But this does not mean that if you do not bite the bullet and get your Xbox 360 chipped or chiped, you will always have to buy games at their full price and keep investing on your console for years. There are alternate avenues as well to this.


A firmware flash is probably the easiest way to get your Xbox 360 to play backed up media . It is supposed to be fast, easy and does not have the high failure rate that a Xbox 360 chiped has. So it is obviously a way that you must consider.