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i bought the nyko intercooler, but after reading all the reviews and problems people where having with it i removed it, i still have the vertical base stand. but i was reading reviews and people where referring to the gameshark intercooler, and i cant seem to find it anywhere on the internet. anyone got a link or some place i can find it?

nevermind found it =)

Personally, it's been my experience that the vertical 360 causes many more problems then it's worth. I've seen disk get ruined this way more often and general failures seem to show up more as well.

I own a nyko intercooler and I have never had a problem with it. I've had it on my 360 for around 8 months now. It does get a little noisy at times; that would be my only complaint.

have you seen the problems its had? the scalding and the melting?

why dont u guys just get an elite?

Only reason I'd get an elite is for the memory, but instead I got an external drive.
My 360 broke a disc from standing vertically.
I just put a book under it to get more air-flow goin on.

I had an intercooler and it broke my xbox. It is basically luck of the draw with those.

You either get a good one or a bad one. Vegan had one and he took it off when he got 3 red rings and then his xbox worked again.

Yeah, I've seen first had the wonderful melting it will do to the plug. A friend of mine had a vertical standing xbox, one day it died. Took us 20 minutes to get the intercooler to detach from the 360 and then we spent about an hour trying to get the plug out. We took the intercooler apart and you could see how it melted, it wasn't going to come apart :P

That last Halo 3 one is teh ugly.

khaoz sent you a private message

I guess we could talk about it here, incase there's other people who want to know. So what specifically did you want to do ITH? Like, name something specific and I can hook you up with the info, etc.

pretty cool stuff there khaoz. My friend Weasil made his own mod on his box. We got the black skin instead of the white, this was way before the elite, and he did a damn fine job of carving weasil into his box and changed the colors to make it look pretty sexy.

.... Khaoz, could you post pics and tell me how to fix overheating? My friend's 360 overheats randomly (it's in a hot area and that's partly why) so I was thinking if I did what you seem to be doing, then it'll reduce the overheating and most likely eliminate it... I dunno what to do about freezing (one of my friend's xboxes is sitting around my house because it freezes literally 3 minutes after being turned on....

Any ideas/help appreciated

P.S. how do I do the controller thing? I think it would look like poop if I tried... but I might be able to.

best thing to do for an older 360 with heating problems that hasn't been openned yet(if you're not comfy with cracking it open and soldering shit in), and is past the 1 year waranty, is to sell just the system, with or without the cables, but keep the hard drive. Can get 70-80 for it, sell the power brick seperate for $50, and the wireless control you can keep, which is worth $50, etc etc. Then go buy a core for a decent deal. Maybe $250. You'd get the new HDMI, plus the new cooling. The newest 360s have more heatsinks and some even have smaller CPUs that run cooler.

They go on ebay all the time for about $75. If your buddy decides he wants to sell it, let me know, cause I'm looking to buy another 360 that's not in great shape, just for parts. Would like to tinker with some parts on my 360, but don't want to do it till i have backup parts, hehe. I've been watching them on ebay though. Let me know if he wants to go that route. Either way is cool, since there's SO damn many of them on ebay.

Once he gets his new 360, or if he decides to stay with the old one, or even get a new one, there's a few things you can do to keep it cooler, that aren't too hard.

I'll list them here in a bit.

how can u tell if you have a newer or older version of an xbox just bought mine this weekend for the 345 price its got 2year warranty so i just think ill wait to mod it

Yeah, with a brand new 360, i'd wait if you're not comfy doing the mods or possibly voiding your warranty. I mean, there is some small things you can do. I've seen guys duct tape fans to the outside of the 360 case, or the bottom vents, pushing air in, or sucking air out of other places. It looks ugly, but people do it to help preserve their console. could even do something as tacky as sit your 360 horizontal and face a house fan into the bottom of it. It's not the coolest way to cool the 360, but it works.

I was able to pull the warranty sticker off my 360 without ripping it, or damaging it at all, so my warranty should still be in tact. If anyone wants to give it a shot, you just take a hair dryer, and put it on the sticker for a while, let it heat up real good, but keep it on low so you don't melt the case. Then using an exacto knife, or razer, slowly peel the sticker off. A razer should slide under it like a hot knife through butter.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LsXZGA9a6MI

LOL. That's way overdoing it, but you get the point. It can be ugly, but some people don't care, as long as they don't have to ship the 360 to get repaired.

www.xbox-scene.com has great tutorials in their hardware forum.
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=471958

Tons of tutorials on there for tons of different things you could do.

Here's some completed 360s other people have done:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.p...=463734&st=270

Just go backward page by page.

my problem is not the power drain cause that is not a problem. i do work with electricity on a daily basis so the little amount of voltage it would pull away from the cpu to run the 2 fans is minimal, its about the same as plugging in a controller to the usb port.

but like i said i just bought mine last weekend.. would i still have the old heating problems or should it be a newer type.

shows how retarded they are about it and just trying to pawn it off on something. the burn marks are from where it doesnt mate perfectly and the electricity arcs. i believe there is a capacitor in there so the only power drain would be slightly in the beginning where it draws alittle more to charge the capacitor. but anyways..

ill ask again lol should i be as worried about the manufacture flaws and such if i just bought my 360 new from the good ole AAFES outlet recently??

Well, I mean, there is still the chance and all, but considering you just bought it, you have that long, nice warranty. I wouldn't worry too much.

The whole problem with the 360 is cooling though. Don't put them in enclosed areas, keep them out in the open.

One big thing you see happen, is since the chips are just held in place by epoxy and cheap solder, when things get hot, those things lose connection. There are fixes out there for almost everything though. Like, the RAM is on the underside of the motherboard, and if things get so hot that they warp a little, and the ram pops off a little, they have the penny fix. 3 pennies per ram, wrapped in electrical tape, and thermal taped to the ram chip, then screw the motherboard back down, and the pressure of being pressed down between the motherboard and the metal shell around the motherboard, pushes that ram back in place, plus the pennies act as a heatsink. This is something 360 modders have been doing for a long time now to fix their 360s, but recently, in the last few months, we've seen 360s coming back from repairs, where MS has employed similar fixes to their 360s. not using pennies of course, but they're pretty much copying the idea to fix the 360s. Kind of funny IMO.

You should be fine though man. Just keep it in an open space, and don't let it sit there for hours doing nothing while a game is running. The 360 doesn't put out a ton of heat when just sitting in the dashboard, but when a game is running, I could cook eggs on the CPU & GPU heatsink.

Gracias, I'll be looking at that a lot

For soldering, is there any way to practice (I've only done it once and I want to mod a controller or two...)

Dont Buy Anything From Aafes!!!!!!!! They R The Devil

nah they are just the mafia