Water Cooled Xbox 360 @ [H]

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Water Cooled Xbox 360 @ [H]

The world's first water cooled Xbox 360! A full Xbox 360 breakdown that will show you how it is done easily.

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.
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66 celsius with stock cooling? That's basically the air near the cpu/gpu at the back of the mobo???

If so, what's what on earth would the die temps be?!! :eek: No wonder the lockups!

Navy
 
Nice. Now you need to get on Steve for showing off some pics a while ago when he was playing around with the idea of watercooling a gamecube and never finished.........

Anyway good job steve.
 
I'm tellin' ya Steve, you should outsource production of this to some Taiwanese manufacturer and sell this stuff stateside...want me to file the LLC papers??? ;)

Seriously, quality work man, that is very nifty.
 
:)

Heh, while we are wishful thinking, maybe we'll talk to Koolance and have them make an Xbox360_EXOS. They can make the check payable to.... :D
 
I would pay for a 360 watercooling kit, cold hard virtual Paypal cash.
 
What was the grand total to do this mod? Looks very interesting.
 
Nicely done. Plenty of tasty picture goodness. Truly worthy of the [H] and doing it old skool.
 
Very nice work, have you guys heard of the company that will be showing off a retail watercooled Xbox360 at CES? Someone might have beaten you to the punch with comercializing watercooling of the 360.
 
I covered the solution from CoolIT over the weekend. At that time I could find no official information on their site. I also believe I linked the article speculating it would be unveiled at CES. Once again no official information.

So if it is to debut at CES (this weekend), that would make the [H] incarnation the first.
 
Erasmus354 said:
Very nice work, have you guys heard of the company that will be showing off a retail watercooled Xbox360 at CES? Someone might have beaten you to the punch with comercializing watercooling of the 360.
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We are not commercializing it. We are showing you how to do it so you don't have to pay someone else an arm and a leg to do it for you. Obviously this is not for everyone....
 
Bad_Boy said:
Is this the worlds first? or is this.. http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4227 ?
Anyways, this is pretty sweet stuff. Nice job [H] Team :D
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A picture of a hard drive cooler stuck on an Xbox along with a press release saying "first" does not cut it in my book. Also, I would LOVE to see their performance specs. Bottom line is that Steve's is going to smoke their ass. ;)
 
Thats pretty spiffy, good job! But what is the point of water cooling a console? :confused:
 
inotocracy said:
Thats pretty spiffy, good job! But what is the point of water cooling a console? :confused:
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did you not read the article? It helps prevent that infamous "360-overheating-in-the-middle-of-your-Quake-fest-and-crashing" problem
 
inotocracy said:
Thats pretty spiffy, good job! But what is the point of water cooling a console? :confused:
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Have you ever heard an xbox360? :p
 
fuelvolts said:
did you not read the article? It helps prevent that infamous "360-overheating-in-the-middle-of-your-Quake-fest-and-crashing" problem
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Yeah, but if its as wide spread as some people think why not just wait for MS to remedy the problem and replace it rather than fork out more money?

dudewth said:
Have you ever heard an xbox360? :p
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Yes :p :rolleyes:
 
Excellent work guys!

At moments like this, you really wish the beast was cracked and you could OC it :cool:
 
Steve said:
By those standards, our press release came out a year ago when I said "I am going to water cool an Xbox 360 when they come out". ;)

The important thing here and what we are really trying to say here is that I'm an ass smoker....

...waitadamnminute....

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LOL - awesome work, Steve-o. Impressive workmanship.

That Barbie link always cracks me up, KB.
 
I've got a couple ideas. Why not try and make it internal? Swap out the pump for a Swiftech or Dangerden. The MCP350 is nice and small. Then bolt an Innovatek Konvekt-O-Matic Passive Radiator on the outside. That way, you just have a single box to lug around, as opposed to two of them.
 
It might be possible for an internal loop, if nothing else by sticking this in.
There should be room for a Laing DDC or C-Systems MAG inside somewhere, the radiator would be the hardest part to fit inside. A 120mm rad would probably be out of the question, and even an 80mm would have difficulty with its 80x80x60mm size (with a fan). With an external rad 3/8", maybe even 1/2" tubing could be used, and an average passive rad would be about the same size as the 360 itself. Another option would be this, but with the pumps swapped out for something better like the previously mentioned DDC or MAG (wow, two TT links in one post :p)
 
krotch said:
I've got a couple ideas. Why not try and make it internal? Swap out the pump for a Swiftech or Dangerden. The MCP350 is nice and small. Then bolt an Innovatek Konvekt-O-Matic Passive Radiator on the outside. That way, you just have a single box to lug around, as opposed to two of them.
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We have lots of time and a lot of really good ideas for the 360, the Revolution and the PS3 :)
 
Actually, this one was the first. http://cgi.ebay.com/Modded-Xbox-360...ryZ62054QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

But, I would hardly call it anything but shit. The pics are gone now, thank god. I wish I would have saved them. It had the rad & pump just laying in his underwear drawer (yes, you could see his boxers in there.). VERY unprofessional. Very shitty job. But, technically, it was first.

He took a PC WC kit and put it on the 360, hacking the shit out of it to get it to work. Cables, hoses, parts everywhere.

Great job on doing a very clean install. :D The first GOOD WC'ed 360!:)
 
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PC said:
Actually, this one was the first. http://cgi.ebay.com/Modded-Xbox-360...ryZ62054QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

But, I would hardly call it anything but shit. The pics are gone now, thank god. I wish I would have saved them. It had the rad & pump just laying in his underwear drawer (yes, you could see his boxers in there.). VERY unprofessional. Very shitty job. But, technically, it was first.

He took a PC WC kit and put it on the 360, hacking the shit out of it to get it to work. Cables, hoses, parts everywhere.

Great job on doing a very clean install. :D The first GOOD WC'ed 360!:)
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Yeah, the kid put a waterblock ON TOP OF the heatpipe cooler...I kid you not...the water block was not attached to the CPU, it sat across the top of the fins of the heat pipe through a hole cut in the side of the console.

I have pics of that one somewhere, I'll dig them up and post ;) Funny stuff.
 
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Hold on i see that you guys used two Koolance L06's but on the last page of the review it says you guys had clearance problems so you exchange it for the H06? My question is did you guys switch it out with two H06's? or you guys use a L06 and H06 together? Im confused...lol. Oh yea also what kind of thermal compound was used?
 
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