cooling

[KhaOZ]

[ITH]

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??

[KhaOZ]

Originally Posted by ITH

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.

[XBXAXTXMXAXNX]

Originally Posted by KhaOZ

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.

Gracias, I'll be looking at that a lot

[XBXAXTXMXAXNX]

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

[Vinco]

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

[ITH]

nah they are just the mafia