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Fully Internal Water-cooled Xbox 360
NiteStar writes "Dano2k0 created a fully internal water-cooled Xbox 360. Unlike previous water-cooled Xbox 360 mods, this one has everything inside the original Xbox 360 case, including the water reservoir and pump. Both CPU (Zern GPU block) and GPU (Koolance GPU-180-H06 block) are water-cooled, with internal Tank-o-Matic mini reservoir, 12v thermaltake pump and DD fill port on the plexi window. The case itself is also customized with a plexiglass grill and LEDs, and it's fully custom painted. The case mod will also be featured in the next edition of the Official Xbox Magazine UK."
Water has a much higher specific heat than either alcohol or mineral oil, so it makes a much better coolant. Plus, it's cheap and pleantiful. There's a reason most vehicle cooling systems are water based these days. Distilled water is not very electrically conductive either so it's still pretty safe if a minor leak occurs.
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Can't help you with the whole websense thing, but these graphs clearly show that these modders take perforamce seriously: http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/xbox360/Dano2k0-wat ercooled-360/news/ledspoweredon.jpg
http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/xbox360/Dano2k0-wat ercooled-360/news/windowviewwholesidelitup.jpg
Maybe if people BOTHERED TO READ THE DAMN SETUP MANUAL/DOCUMENT, they wouldn't be complaining about the XBox 360 overheating.
Nah, its far simpler to just blame Microsoft instead of the dumb ass consumer who sticks a power supply on a shag carpet or next to a 250 watt stereo that pumps out more BTU/hr than a small server.
Because the 360 has heat problems. The heat problem is so bad that 3rd parties make these fan units to attach to the 360 fans
Can I bum a sig?
To do what microsoft promised and then backed out of.
originally the 360 was going to be water cooled, granted this was Peter Moore (Microsoft's Ken Kutaragi) who said this...
The Cooling system Microsoft talked about was a Heat Pipe NOT traditional water-cooling in the case moder sense. The 360 DOES actually contain a heatpipe... well... excluding the one from TFA.
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ModChips are not illegal because they violate any hardware license agreement. Unlike software which you typically buy a license to use (MS/Apple/etc. own the software, and sell you a license to use it - you own nothing), you typically buy hardware (you own you Xbox/PowerBook/OptiPlex/etc.).
ModChips are illegal because they are promoted as being useful for circumventing copyright (i.e. "Buy this ModChip and play burned games!"). In Australia, ModChips are legal if they are only promoted for the purposes of defeating region coding (i.e. "Buy this ModChip and play imported Japanese games!").
Retrofitted water cooling isn't promoted as being useful for circumventing copyright, and I can't think of any way it possibly could be used for circumventing copyright. There is absolutely nothing illegal about it.
Your post is not insightful, it is ignorant.