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Water Cooling an Xbox 360

Posted by Zonk on from the because-we-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "HardOCP has done it once again. They have an article running down the process of water cooling an Xbox 360, and with surprising effectiveness and remarkable styling." From the article: "We had plans to water cool an Xbox 360 for over a year now. Little did we know that not only will this water cooling project be more fun than the original, but it may even be practical. Imagine that. With reports of heat related issues and a heat sink that can get almost too hot to touch after marathon gaming sessions, the Xbox 360 water cooling project now had a sense of purpose. We bought a retail Xbox 360 specifically for this project. The minute we got it back to the [H] labs we tore into it and, with a little help from the fine folks at Koolance, we have put together a water cooling solution that will handle anything the Xbox 360 can throw at it and literally knock your socks off." Actual implimentation with hand-holding. Hexus.net was discussing a kit to do this a few days ago.

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  1. Cooling by rfinnvik · · Score: 3, Funny

    The standard 360 cooler uses liquid to transfer heat more efficiently from the CPU/GPU afaik. Maybe in the next revision they should consider taking this idea further and add a radiator and pump... :)

    1. Re:Cooling by Admiral+Frosty · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can only imagine what might go wrong with Microsoft putting water-cooling in a major console. They failed a simple power brick...

  2. Re:XBOX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You fail.
    Twice.

  3. Today XBox cooling, tomorrow, WMD by tjstork · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, I have a grim admiration of anyone that would devote so much time to water cooling an x-box. I only hope that the people with such time and talent do not devote their energies to darker activities. Today, those guys are cooling x-box 360s, but tomorrow, they'll be working on nuclear weapons, writing spyware, or working on Windows, depending on which pays the most.

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  4. 40 lashes with a dictionary by Dun+Malg · · Score: 5, Funny
    we have put together a water cooling solution that will handle anything the Xbox 360 can throw at it and literally knock your socks off.

    I fail to see how a water cooling system would do any sock-knocking. I guess they don't actually know what the word literally means (hint: it isn't a superlative nor does it simply add emphasis).

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    1. Re:40 lashes with a dictionary by thesandtiger · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps there is an upcoming adaptor for the 360 that gives it very powerful cybernetic arms that can throw things at the water cooling system hard enough to send shockwaves rippling through space and time, waves that will go back through history to the point where you were about to put on your socks and slap you upside your head, making you say "Huh? What was that?" and thus distracting you from your sock donning, thus not only essentially knocking your socks off, but erasing from all existence any memory that you had, at one time, even had them on.

      But noooo, you couldn't give them the benefit of the doubt - you have to assume that, rather than making hardware so powerful it can alter history, they just don't know what the word means. Such negativity!

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    2. Re:40 lashes with a dictionary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      When you preface a figure of speech with "literally", what you're saying is "(figure of speech) occurred, and I don't mean that as a figure of speech". Nobody's fucking socks got knocked off

      When you say "fucking socks", do you mean that as a figure of speech, or literally?

  5. Aww... by Psykus · · Score: 4, Funny

    "With reports of heat related issues and a heat sink that can get almost too hot to touch after marathon gaming sessions.."

    I just love touching the heatsink after a good session of gaming, and now I can't with the Xbox 360; I gotta get this product now!

    1. Re:Aww... by HoboMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Unless you're using their definition of "literally," in which case it would mean it's kind of hot.

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  6. HardOCP knocks my socks off, literally by Legendre · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, the authors command of english literally knocks my socks off!!

  7. You've obviously never had an Xbox360 fall on you. by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had one fall on my leg.

    It ripped my flesh to the bone, knocked my sock off, broke my big toe and killed my cat.

    damn you Microsoft
    DAMN YOU

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  8. Re:XBOX by -Pyth0nx- · · Score: 1, Funny

    I didn't realize you people post so fast... This is harder than I thought. >____

  9. SWEET by Mad+Ogre · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm now inspired to water cool my GAME BOY ADVANCED! Next will be my Texas Instuments Calculator and Timex Expedition digital watch! Water Cooling makes everything better.

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  10. Um...actually... by AmazingRuss · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the damn thing rocks. No problems, stunning graphics...and its a pretty bitchen mp3 player if you plug a USB hard drive plugged into it, which kind of makes up for them trying to lock you into windows boxen by not supporting smb, in favor of some doubtless cheesy and unreliable streaming server software on your XP computer.

    Sure it gets hot...its a goddam supercomputer in a breadbox.

    It will eat disks if you wobble it while its on, but with the rotational velocity of that disk at howevermany rpms its spinning, thats not surprising. I find very little need to wobble it while its on, so this is not a problem for me.

    I run linux, and agree that Microsoft is the devil, but at 720p on my old projector, the 360 games are so beautiful that it brings just a tear to my eye.

    Oh, and I got mine off ebay, for $625, with shipping. Just because I wanted it, now, and didn't feel like waiting in line. I'd have paid it at the store if there were no lines...it really is worth it to me...but I have a lot of disposable income for such foolishness, so I suppose I'm atypical.

    Meanwhile, YOU, Mr. Anonymous economically disadvantaged troll, are playing on some newly sucky old system, or dropped 2 grand on a hot gaming pc, which you can't wobble while you have the dvd spinning, either.

    Therefore, u R teh SUX0RS. I shall now perform an interperative dance of mockery in your general direction. Woo! Woo! .... Woo! Woo!

  11. Does it include... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Funny

    watercooling the power supply? :P

  12. Re:sigh.... by balthan · · Score: 4, Funny

    isn't just unecessary, it's stupid.

    Welcome to slashdot, you must be new here.

  13. Re:you are fucking kidding right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can water cool most appliances. My overclocked microwave can do 3 minute popcorn in 2:52!