Should I feel any guilt in doing this.......

[GriskaGyoran]

Jasper has just had its 1 year anniversary...

Just in general, not the Jasper. Apparently there was a quality increase with the Falcon revision.

[kool kitty89]

So there you have it: Microsoft engineers are dumber than hobos off the street.

The good news is that, if your warantee's expired the homebrew fix isn't particularly difficult, it's not as simple as changing a 72 pin connector, but any person with reasonable dexterity who is capable of using tools and following a tutorial + detailed insturctions should be able to handel it fine. Especially if you're ding it as a precaution, as you don't have to resolder (overheat) the GPU if it hasn't come desoldered. (just remove the heat sinks, clean off the thermal paste, apply the proper amount of fresh thermal paste, and replace the crappy riveted x-clamp brackets with screws/bolts+nuts+washers)

Of course that won't help for the less common failures like the DVD drive, or a kind of odd one where the video output fails. (I had a freind have one die like that w/out rrod, it would even start up fine with sound and everyting but no video)

[vintagegamecrazy]

Just remember that you don't have to ever feel guilty for selling it as long as you sell it to Game$topoly!

[Allan]

Well, whomever you sell it to probably knows what they're entering into.

So yeah. I'd sell it.