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XBox Can Now Be A Mini Rack Mount Server

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the computing-on-the-cheap dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The X-Tender Case Mod for Xbox is a complete kit that will allow you convert your Xbox into a mini rack mount server or media center with activity LEDs and expanded space for two internal hard drives. Molded to perfectly integrate with your Xbox, this kit comes with a custom front panel, a 3 activity LED, a custom made hard drive mounting plate to accommodate one or two additional drives, and a custom molded rear panel. Specially designed X-Tender rods are included to internally support the expansion, allowing you to securely reassemble the machine. Additional space on front panel will allow the support of one LCD display on each side of the system, or additional LEDs or cold cathode lights. You can switch between the newly added drives via the buttons at the front."

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  1. Your point? by Ianoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How long has the XBox hardware remained the same now? When they were released, sure, they were a bargain for 733MHz/64MB, but I can go and buy dirt cheap components and build a 2GHz Celeron with 256MB of RAM and video on the motherboard for the same kind of money. Isn't that better value than this?

    1. Re:Your point? by StocDred · · Score: 2, Insightful
      considering they could wait another month and buy something about 3 times as powerful.

      Or wait another month and buy something 6 times as powerful. Or wait another month and buy something 9 times as powerful. Or wait another month and buy something 12 times as powerful. Or wait another month and buy something 15 times as powerful.

      I think you see where I'm going with this.

  2. Cool But by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Okay it was cool when people were running linux and what not on this but Jesus Tap Dancing Christ people! Just play the damn games and buy a real computer to do your computer needs.

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    -Dipster
  3. Seems like a bogus claim to me by @madeus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "is a complete kit that will allow you convert your Xbox(TM) into a mini rack mount server"

    In what way does it allow you to convert one into a 'mini rack mount server'?

    There is no rack mounting kit with this that I can see, nor does the mod do anything that would aid in rack mounting an X-Box as far as I can see (I had assumed some kind of side bracket to effectively make it wider, or possibly to allow two to a rack).

    Am I missing some element of the kit here, or is it just poor phrasing on their part?

  4. Ad for Xenium? by llevity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WTF? Most of the mod chips sold are "completely legal". Most of them can even load any bios you want. They're completely legal because they're not shipped to you with an illegal bios (ie, a hacked version of the MS one that lets you do whatever you want). They allow you to flash any bios you want because they can't ship them with a bios, because then they'd become illegal. For what it's worth, I've not heard many good things about the solderless chips. They work, but they're easy to jar loose, and then you have to open your Xbox again and reseat them. Just solder your chip, it's only 9 wires with most mods.

  5. Not just $150 by CMiYC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    XBox -> $150
    Modchip -> $50
    This Kit -> $50
    New Harddrive -> $50
    2 USB XBox Adapater -> $40
    USB Keyboard -> $20 (no sharing components, right?)
    USB Mouse -> $20

    So for about $380 you can turn an Xbox into a PC. Not $150. I'm baffled why everyone uses your argument. "You can't build a PC for $150!" Well you still can't if you use a Xbox.