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."

Comments

performance?

[gEvil (beta)]

Aside from running a bit cooler, does it actually affect performance in any way? And I'm assuming the power brick still gets nice and toasty, too. I can't check for myself cos of wonderful wonderful Websense.

Official mag?

[Rob T Firefly]

[blockquote]The case mod will also be featured in the next edition of the Official Xbox Magazine UK."[/blockquote]So the "official" mag is going to advise its readers on a fancy way to scuttle their warranties?

Why would Microsoft encourage this?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

"Unlike previous water-cooled Xbox 360 mods, this one has everything inside the original Xbox 360 case, including the water reservoir and pump...The case mod will also be featured in the next edition of the Official Xbox Magazine UK."

If I were Microsoft I'd be plain embarrassed that my flagship design for the mouth-breathing console masses was so poorly engineered that cooling the fucker has become a cottage industry.

I think the market is ready for an entrant that "just lets me play my fucking game". I doubt it will be Sony, however.

(Yeah, I quit consoles when they switched away from cartridges years ago because I couldn't stand the CD load times. And before you ask, yes I use a DVD player that lets me skip past the warnings, preview nonsense, etc.)

Re:One question:

[hector_uk]

ironically the nosiest part of the 360 is the optical drive.

Re:One question:

[KDR_11k]

How's that ironic? The optical drive in my PC is the noisiest part as well, at least when the disc in there is copy protected.

Re:Unacceptable

[bill_kress]

When I started looking at consoles a couple years ago, I came to the exact same conclusion.

I used a new scientific method I call the "store test", which is basically if a store can't keep it on line, I don't really want it.

As I went through Target, Kmart, Bestbuy, Wal-mart and anywhere else with the "Three-console display" I took effort to note what was up and what was crashed.

XBox--rarely up, maybe 1/3 of the time (A very optomistic estimate, I think). Almost always had some kind of internal error--probably overheating in those display cases. Reset never helps.

PS/2--up about 1/2 the time. Now, that sounds great next to the xbox but we are talking about a system that should NEVER go down. Actually the newer displays stay up much more, I think they are using the new slim-line ps/2s. Reset sometimes helps.

GameCube--Never never never down. I have yet to see a gamecube down in a display case unless the entire case was down (probably due to the xbox catching fire inside there--dunno).

Anyway, if you want a worry-free livingroom device for the family, I doubt you can beat the gamecube. Wish it had more serious games, but whatever.

Re:Pull The 360 From The Market, Microsoft!

[MSFanBoi2]

And just how is it a timebomb pray-tell?

Google around for people that have gone thru plenty of PS2s, plenty of Apple POwerbooks, or MacBooks.

I'd love to hear how you can explain how it is poorly designed...