Custom Water Cooling for the Xbox 360
Tired of your 360 freezing in mid-pwnage Learn to design and build your own custom water cooling system for your 360. Mod the PSU, convert the red ring of death to a blue ring of light, and add blue LEDs to the controllers equals one hell of a mod. Although the entire assembly jutting out of the top of the case looks rather unappealing, you could always make a Case Mod for it.
**Update – Looks like this tutorial is no longer online. Sorry.
The project was done on basically no budget and they used anything they could get their hands on to get the project completed. The creators say that appearently it’s ghetto on purpose. If you’re interested in adding LEDs to your controllers, check this.
September 23rd, 2008
Water Cooling is better than fanned propulsion except I also have modded my Xbox 360; however, rather than using Water cooling I have utilised the assistance on Very Hard to Obtain Liquid Cooling which is actually 6 times more thermal than water, alas it proves to be difficult to obtain the liquid materials within as they do not provide the details and replacement is every two years.
May 10th, 2009
Is it possible to play your console leaving the casing off, like in the above photo, so it is constantly aired? Or is this a bad idea?
Thanks.
May 10th, 2009
It’s possible…but obviously not recommended. you’d have to have some good airflow on it at all times.
October 16th, 2009
cool
March 22nd, 2010
How about refrigeration cooling, I built my own refrigeration cooled Xbox 360 in a new case cooled with the guts of an old water cooler compressor 20 gms of R134a refrigerant (I work in HVAC industry fitting air con systems) gas made my own custom slug blocks from solid copper and braized evaporator pipework to that and the back of the unit has the condensor radiator on the back, the CPU / GPU never gets above 5 Deg c when on! but it takes 3 mins to get down to temperature so I have thermal active monitoring untill the cooling system is down to at least 10 deg c the xbox 360 don’t get power, relays latch power though whe its cold enough !