The Red Ring of Death is something that has followed the Xbox 360 since its launch, where almost a third of all consoles are/were defective. However, it has since gotten better, and with the new Xbox 360, RRoD is a thing of the past. At least physically, as there are no red lights on the ring on the console — only green. So from now on. it’s the Green Ring of Death, or GRoD.

We’ve been hearing quite a bit of the fabled 65nm GPU, but after months of speculation, months of waiting, months of RRODs, it seems its finally here. But will it actually fix the Xbox 360′s fatal flaw?

Well, as most of you know, the RROD was caused by hardware failure, be it overheating or the GPU coming loose from the motherboard, either way it completely bricked your system. Well, with the chip sets new 65nm architecture it runs cooler, fits snugger to the motherboard, and consumes less power, effictively killing the two above problems, or so we hope.

But what happens to those of you that purchased your Xbox 360 so long ago? Well, apparently the chipsets only been avaiable since September so it looks like your fresh outta luck if you bought your console before October 23rd of this year. But perhaps next time your console RRODs (because its almost inevitable at this point) the Microsoft repair center will give you the 65nm upgrade?  We can only hope.

The Xbox 360 has been criticized for being a bad piece of hardware due to the high volume of RRoDs users have had to face since the console’s launch. Microsoft has faced a lot of trouble over this, and who better to take out the company’s aggression than the person who let it all out: Robert Delaware.

Delaware, a temporary worker for a game testing firm contracted to Microsoft, contributed to an expose’ uncovering the system’s instability. He was fired by his supervising manager at Microsoft; the company is now taking legal action against the man for talking without permission to VentureBeat, the publication that broke the story on the system’s problems.

“He fully knew the risk he was taking, based on multiple conversations I had with him about using his name,” said Dean Takahashi, the article’s author. “Clearly, from a legalistic point of view, Delaware broke company policy and it is the company’s right to fire him.”