look, I think I see the problem with your console, It ain't a PC. in all seriousness though, that idea of making holes in the top might work, but I guess that would all depend on what your room temperature is, take me for example, I live in Acapulco, basically 30-35 degrees Celsius every day, I absolutely hate it here and want to go back to Canada. anywho, instead of ruining the case by drilling holes in it, isn't there a way to simply remove the case? I don't own a 1st gen xbox, so I wouldn't know. adding a custom fan won't be too hard, my dyslexic crippled pet one-armed monkey could maybe do it, maybe. edit; crap, ninja'd by the TARDIS.
Yeah you can take the case off. Not sure exactly how, tried with mine (1st gen) but stopped because I didn't really have any reason too and didn't want to break it.
I am gonna try to buy a new Xbox fan off of Ebay, and go the "Let's make it still look like a normal Xbox and not have the parts strewn everywhere" route first.
IIRC the 360 either had really small or really big die. Wasn't standard. You wouldn't want to drill the mobo. Zip ties could work though. I have all of time and space in my domain, what did you expect?
If you want to put an aftermarket cooler on your 360, go with Thermalright's TR360. It's about $60 on Amazon (new) and it's made by one of the best heatsink companies out there. Here's a review/installation http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/a...TR-360-Xbox-360-GPU-Cooler-Replacement-Review
For a custom 450w GPU cooler, yes; but for a simple 30w CPU? My t40 cost $30 and can handle ~120w as is. :/
My xbox divulged into parts on a bench for the last year and some of it's life. It still worked i just didn't play it much any more and wanted to use the shelf differently. It had a heatsink from an old AMD computer on it and random fans from computers pointed directly at the heatsinks, also still had the original fan on the back. All plastic casing was gone. DVD drive sat off to the side with an extended power cable and a longer sata cable as it had broken. The way I played games was by a ghetto fix due to the drive not letting go of the disk right and me being pissed off every time. I took the top off the drive so i could just set the disk straight on the spinny bit. The original psu was also scrapped and i used a computer psu. I wish my xbox would have kept working right. It was a shitty machine.
Ive never had a problem with the xbox I have now. Never. Never got the red ring. *knocks on wood* But the first one we got, it's disk drive stopped working a few years after we got it. Guess I've had better luck than most.
I have an original Xbox 360 too (no HDMI) and my fix was: cut hole in case, place in 2 80mm fans, and wired them into a homemade plug that can vary from 3 volts to 12 volts. Would give pic but no camera. DON'T WIRE EXTRA FANS INTO THE XBOX'S POWER SYSTEM!!! You can possible overload the PSU.
You have at least an amp (potentially more) to play with on the 5v rail but this will be interfering with USB devices if you add any.
I will try the fan thing first, then maybe ghetto modding it, but I will make sure the xbox doesn't get better cooling than my PC does XD (so no water cooling), and if all else fails, my parents said that since the family still kind of wants to play on it, they might buy another one. Now, if I do get another one, should I get another normal one, or should I get a Slim? Are there improvements for the Slim as opposed to the original one?
well, for one, the slim will have improved cooling systems (id say that's a pretty important improvement)
No, some of the best CPU coolers out there are $60+ (Noctua, Thermalright, etc) And GPU coolers (Arctic Cooling being the best) are even more. I paid $100 for the cooler on my old HD4850.
