DVT-4 and debug units

What is the current value on DVT-4's? I am gonna start looking next month. I like the metal jewel of the DVT-3 but the 3 is really limited to what it will run I was told.

 

I've seen Debug kits go as low as $130 and then I see people selling them for $200. This is before shipping and without any unreleased game, mind you.

DVT-4's I've seen sold for $230. $300 is still pretty fair I'd say.

There was a DVT-3 on eBay that got taken down. I think that was going for $400...

Good luck!

 

I am gonna look for a DVT-4 soon. Is it worth less once the seals are broken? I want to install a bigger hard drive and will have to break the seals anyway. This way I can save money and not ruin a sealed DVT-4. Only problem is I do not want someone messing around inside before I get it and also there is the fact of why was it open to start with?

 

you'll not get much help to destroy a DVT-4 here , infact id probably say you'd be better off leaving it stock as once modded its worthless

 

Thats why I wanted to look for a unit with broken seals already. But you right about keeping it intact, I have a debug that has a bigger drive in it already. To be honest, I have a hard time breaking the seals on a retail xbox. I had a blue ICE xbox and a X3 control panel in blue also that I wanted to install real bad, butI could not bring myself to cut the seals. Good thing I did not! Over the summer I bought a blue xbox on Ebay from a guy that scored a storage locker full of XBOX stuff. It was already open up and missing the hard drive for 60 dollars shipped. I also scaored 2 blue ICE controllers from him that were darn close to new if not new for 40 bucks shipped a week later.

To bad I did not find out about him til almost all his stuff was gone! I also heard that he had a friendtech 1480 that he sold with a crystal clear xbox for 400 bucks. There was launch consoles top halves of cases with the jewel intact with no matching faceplates. All sorts of stuff that he had no idea what it was. For months I was thinking how mad the person who lost the locker was! Oh yeah he sold green dukes for 25 bucks also! to bad all I got was the blue xbox and controllers! But I am happy I got them! That is my favorite XBOX that I own with the X3CP, it looks stunning!

Who ever got that friendtech was one lucky person! That is a awesome collectors piece! Even know the trusty board I have does the same job. It is a piece of XBOX history and nobody else has figured out how to add the speed control switch for the CPU to drop it back to 740mhz!

 

I dont think the Friendtech that was sold was the upgraded CPU version, I think it was just the RAM, no? And Trusty's is slightly different regardless.

 

That storage guy did sell some good stuff. =)

The blue (as well as green) Friendtechs did not have the cpu upgrade, yes. Only the red 1480 had the CPU upgrade. All had 128 RAM though.

 

All the good stuff he had were the Dukes. Everything else was tempered with :/

 

Mostly. The consoles were more or less just good for modding and not really collecting since they had all been opened and had no shielding. The shielding thing really confuses me. Even if it isn't needed, why take it out? 0_o

Back to the OP. Why is it that you want a DVT-4 to put a bigger hard drive in? Would a Debug Kit work?

 

Probably so you can see the insides

Modding development consoles I'm completely against, and which dans87 is right. Highly doubt anyone will fulfill his needs.

 

Once upon a time when I was first starting out with Xbox stuff I wanted a 128Mb console. At the time I had no clue retail units could be modded for that. I assumed only debugs and dev kits could have 128MB RAM. Then I learned of the mod and have 2 now. I then learned of the "Trusty board" and have one coming with 1.4Ghz CPU. Now I am completely against modding debug and dev kits seeing how rare they are. If I REALLY need a debug kit with a bigger HDD I can use the PBL and such to make my own fake one with same function. The end.

Not trying to troll with the way I wrote it. Just trying to be funny here.

 

You are right about the DVT-4. I would not be worth breaking the seals on a awesome piece like that. I have a 2 debug kits, one that I got with a bad DVD drive and I upgraded the hard drive at the same time. There is no real reason for having a bigger drive in it anyway.


So the friendtech did not have the upgraded CPU. I have retail consoles with the 128 RAM and a trusty board already. So I do not feel bad that I missed it. I just wanted the friendtech 1480 since it came out way back. I like the speed control switch.

 

Here's an uncomfortable truth that most of us don't like to talk about: In all reality, all of these kits will need to be opened at some point. Those clock capacitors are a ticking timebomb.

 

*screaming* No no... NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

In all seriousness though, there are ways to remove the seal without tearing or poking a hole through them.

 

Yep, thats what I do when I have to open them. Gotta be as non-destructive as possible.

 

I'm glad you told me how to back up the data on mine then. =)

 

So I take it there is 'clock error check' in the debug bios too?

 

INIT:800F0406 68 DC 13 01 80 push offset aBadRealTimeClo ; "Bad real-time clock value: %08x%08x\n"
INIT:800F040B E8 44 E6 F3 FF call _DbgPrint

 

I just realised something funny here. I was talking about not wanting to mod debug or devkits and I just bought a debug unit that is very clean and has a 120GB HDD. Go figure...

At least it is a 128MB model as I was sent pictures of its insides.