The 360 PC

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Here is the xbox with the power supply and the motherboard...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:14:29 +1300

Here is the xbox with the power supply and the motherboard fitted. It seems to all fit, but very tightly. Will drill some holes for the radiator and hoses to go around.

The watercooling kit i bought off trademe has arrived. Along...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:59:00 +1300

The watercooling kit i bought off trademe has arrived. Along with the water cooling kit i have bought another cpu heat plate. I compared the kit one with the additional one and found that it had better flow through it. Therefore i will be using the additional heat transfer plate for the water cooling. I have also bought the sycthe ultra thin fan for the radiator which will be hanging on the outside of the xbox case.

Today i used my rotary tool to seat the motherboard into the...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:38:00 +1300

Today i used my rotary tool to seat the motherboard into the case. I grinded away a fair bit of the case and the inside of the faceplate. The plan for now is to use the outboard usb ports and audio ports as the main ports. The inboard ports will useless. The inboard usb ports can be used via the memory flaps at the front of the xbox. I had to mount the motherboard with ports facing forward as i needed the space for the power supply. The space where the pci slots aren’t needed will be overlapped by the power supply.

I also pulled out the cd drive from my laptop. The drive fits but im wondering how high the cpu waterblocks are. As the height may be a problem. With the cd drive in i will modify the drives bezel so that when i press down on the bezel of the xbox the drive will open.

pconlineshop.co.nz order

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:29:20 +1300

pconlineshop is a huge store, but their services aren’t that great. The Asus motherboard that i order was out of stock and they will not email you back saying that there is no stock. I waited about a week for the motherboard to arrive, then found out that there was not stock. So i rang them up on the cell number thats on the invoice and asked what was going on. Thats the only way you can contact them. They are happy for you the refund the order or swap.

AsRock P55m-Pro motherboard has arrived after ordering the Asus...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:23:00 +1300

P55

AsRock P55m-Pro motherboard has arrived after ordering the Asus which was not in stock. I didnt want to wait so i opted for a few millimeters bigger and $45 cheaper. That few millimeters are costly as it was just too big to fit without having to do any modifications on the case. I will need to dremel out the supports of the case and faceplate as they stuck out the 5mm that i needed.

Dimms 244mm x 224mm

At this rate fitting everything in looks impossible. I plan to run a 2 fan radiator across the whole case but i might opt for a one fan radiator and have the graphics card sticking out. Now with the graphics on the outside i will have room to mount the cd drive. Once the motherboard is mounted and the ram is in i will be able to find out what space is left.

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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:35:58 +1300

Vortex 600w PSU stripped back

PSU Back panel

PCI-E Riser Card with Ribbon Cable

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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:33:32 +1300

Stripped Xbox 360

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Introduction

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:27:49 +1300

The idea of creating an xbox computer beast would be one of the most challenging projects i have ever thought of. This is my first case mod and being a challenging one. Fitting everything into a 300x250x80 box is going to be hard. I have done alot of research in finding components that have an extra small form factor.

The proposed system is as follows

Asus p7p55-m motherboard
Intel i5 750 cpu
4GB CL9 ram
ATi 4870 graphics card
Old HDD
600w Vortex Psu

Everything will be watercooled some how.

I believe that these specs are very ambitious but the person that i am, i am very determined to get what needs to make it happen.

My ideas are as follows

Stripping the xbox bare would be the first thing i will do.
Swap existing disc drive with slimline or laptop disc drive. Make mounts to fit and modify front plate to fit the bizel.
Fit my hard drive from my old computer into the hard drive case that the xbox uses. The xbox that i have got does not have a hard drive, so if it costs too much to buy the hard drive cover i will mount the hard drive internally.
I am looking to make use of the existing double fans, maybe use to cool the power supply as water cooling does not require this.
Fit the video card next to the cd drive and the hard drive can go above the cd drive, depending on where the cpu placement is.
Use a riser card with cable to flatten the graphics card. the card will be able to be moved and turned over.
Depending on where the cpu placement and everything else i may turn the motherboard around so that all the rear ports are facing the front and rewire extensions into the front face plate. So i can plug in usb, esata and firewire, and sound.
Initially fit mini power supply and either expand the side panel of the xbox or build a window, but when i got the first psu it was 450w but it was a new shuttle psu so had bung as plugs. 8pin cpu with 6pin motherboard, and no 20pin atx plug. The shuttle psu which had atx 20pin was 300w, which was not powerful enough.
Now i pulled apart my 600w vortex psu and i think i can put that psu in bu modifying the psu case and adding a few small fans. as the large 120mm fan took up half the room. Also rewire the psu plug so i can plug the cable in at the back of the xbox.
Now with the water cooling i will place the pump in front of the psu on the bottom and cut a hole on the side panel to mount the radiator. planning to run 2 fan radiator but maybe just 1 looks better.

PSU Dims 175x150x80 minus 120mm fan will be about 65mm. In length there is about 60mm of space i can make use of.

The last of my ideas is to buy an official xbox wireless reciever and xbox controller. so i can use the controller to play my fifa10.

Apologies for any stuff ups.

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