Ethan! dude, you're into tech really well....kool.
so umm....I got a deal for you bro.... I have this LG monitor...purchased around a year ago....or may be 14 months or so.... It's got 22" screen, 2ms response time, tilt stand, matte screen.....DVI-D and VGA inputs....I connect my xbox 360 to the VGA and pc to the DVI... it's an awesome monitor....
and on the top of that, it's got the native resolution of 1680 * 1050
I bought it for rs.17200, now the price has dropped to rs.14700. I am interested in selling it for rs.11000.
I wanna buy a 32" lcd tv....namely Samsung 32A450....I'll use it for my console as well as the PC..... so if interested, call me on 90014-58094
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and btw, somebody here said that firmwares never control the cooling thingy....well my dear friend, I had this laptop Compaq V3029AU, the dreaded AMD turion stock with Nvidia 6150 graphics...... The thing in this was that the firmware didn't fire up the cooling mechanism for the whole system till the overall system temperature reached a critical level, which it seldom did....but in this lot, the problem was that the graphics chipset got overheated pretty bad and due the overall system temperature being low, the cooling thing didn't get activated....now this was the fact which made my laptop DEAD! almost 60-70% of laptops, made by HP, with the amd+nvidia chipset config in that time, faced exactly this same problem.....the only workaround is to get the motherboard replaced....HP asks rs14000 for changing it....local market guys do it for 6000-8000.....I got it replaced from the local market, on which it died again after 6 monthhs for the same prob....can't get it done from hp coz it's too damn costly.....
after all the research, I came to know that HP released a firmware which made this problem ok...but until then, many systems already out of luck.
so, please be clear that firmwares do control the cooling mechanism....now I don't know whether it does in the Xbox360 or not...but in many devices, it does!