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Watercooling the XBox 360

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the staying-cool dept.

Steve from Hexus writes "Steering clear of jokes about overheating power supplies, one company is claiming to have constructed a watercooling kit for the XBox 360. HEXUS.gaming has obtained pictures of the product, seemingly attached to an XBox 360, though how it works and how it is installed remains something of a mystery."

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  1. Slow news day? by blowdart · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "though how it works and how it is installed remains something of a mystery."

    Almost as much of a mystery as why this a black box sitting next to a 360 is considered "news".

    1. Re:Slow news day? by DrWho520 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This article mysteriously made its way to the front page. In Games, this article is feesible. On the front page? Well, it does come right after the article on 5,000+ software bugs found this year.

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  2. jesus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF is this? The article is smaller than the /. summary and is basically just two almost-identical pictures of a black box sitting next to an XBox 360. Maybe it's a slow morning for news, but this is just lame.

  3. why? by Novotny · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I really don't get this - surely in any normal gaming scenario, the xbox's internal cooling will be drowned out (no pun intended) by the gaming sound? What's the point in overclocking the thing, even if its possible?

  4. Dear God Why? by Matey-O · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have a sealed box unit that's been tested to pass UL requirements for fire resistance and has been pounded to within an inch of it's life in development (yeah yeah, they never put the power supply on a scrap of deep shag, whatever)

    And someone's selling additonal cooling for it? Makes as much sence as a water cooler add-on to your coffemaker.

    P.T. Barnum was right.

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  5. Slashvertisement by DavidV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just how much is Hexus paying for the Slashvertisements? It probably wouldn't be so obvious if there were more than one article in between them.

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  6. This article sucks by DogDude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Plain and simple, this shitty advertisement disguised as an "article" sucks. Seriously, can we get the Editors to make up a new "advertising" category so we can opt out? I know that that may be asking too much from people who can't even bother to spell check a 3 sentence article summary, or check to see if the same article was posted in the past 24 hours.

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  7. Troubling by rinkjustice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It says on the front page HEXUS.gaming is UK's leading gaming website, but after appraising the articles and layout of the website, it can't be so. Don't get me wrong, I'm not about ripping apart other people's work, but this site is about making a dime on cheesy in-text advertising and ugly, blocky ads in place of content. /. certainly shouldn't be directing their loyal readership to this internet flotsam when they know full well it's a lame scam.

    I seem to be asking myself how long will I put up with this crap before I stop frequenting this site?

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  8. A better mystery... by SeaFox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    how it works and how it is installed remains something of a mystery.

    much like the reason why you would want to install a liquid cooling aparatus on a device that can maintain opertaing tempratures on its own!

    I haven't heard of a huge overclocking community of XBox'ers, and it's not like you can easily upgrade the graphics to something that would add lots of heat to the system. The actual usefullness of this product seems rather limited.

    Now, if they'd had made a cooling device for the power supply...