http://www.flickr.com/photos/24908163@N05/

[freddyfourfinger84]

hi buddy,the xbox looks great,i am thinking about buying a broken xbox hd dvd for the case and putting the drive on top of the xbox then i can put a fan on top of the gpu.did you have to remove the legs to get it in the caddy and how did you affix the front and eject button on the xbox without the drive inside.

[NYzwolf]

This is the only way (other than water cooling) to fix an Xbox (first few generations).

I have a similar setup, although not as pretty because after fixing it i no long feel like its worth the investment in time.

[antandshar]

@KOOLANCE720 Too true, I'm sure we could come up with some really radical designs!

[antandshar]

@VincentBProductions As the 360 is still working and PC GPU's have the same amount of fin area it was a good call!

[TboneNYC10]

IMHOP,Micrsoft should forget about creating hardwear for there next system and turn to Sega to create the next Xbox.

[TheYomamaLandon]

thats a very nice fan mod and i really like ur dvd drive :D IMA SUBSCRIBE

[cbr1000rrfodatass]

My bad ~shit~

[cbr1000rrfodatass]

Shot works great! I'm in the process of doin this mod for fun on a pawn shop rrod. I've only done the mock up but so far spot on tempwise. Bravo, Looks great.

[RocAha8ter]

Awesome. Are you selling any of these cases? What would you rate the difficulty of doing this?

[tin701]

how the hell did you fit the fans in there ontop of the heatsinks? im guessing the top one is since there is a lack of dvd drive

nice job

also i saw how it looks now on flickr

very good

[R0bertCc]

this is the second vid i've seen from you and so far good show sir! i have a couple of tricks up my own sleeves tho!

[DigitalxxxFr34k]

How did u wire the fan to work like so

[chuckchuckkid6]

how did you get that fan ontop of the dvd drive is it super thin

[MsAchievementGuy]

WTF!?!!?!?!?!

[killer6650]

whats the point of having a disc tray on your xbox 360 when your useing another one

[libasonmes528]

that looks shit

[TexasproXmods]

check mine out on the video response also

[ej709]

about how many watts does the psu have to have to power the xbox and TWO 120 MM fans?? i have a psu tht can run 218w max is tht good

[MrCustomconsolez]

Sweet, check my custom xbox out!

[castermedia]

u boufght it to play games not make it look cool

[castermedia]

dont mod damn theres no point u get an xbox to play games not dress it up shit

[DJx579]

@castermedia yeah but when you can't play games any more..you either send it in to get it fixed or replaced by M$ or you "Dress it up shit"

[castermedia]

@DJx579 thats stupid

[spawnrandy]

siiick wer did u get the extra hd drive

[ryzlaptop]

where is your cpu cooler?

[Fransais]

not bad.. not bad at all

[YoungGeekGuy]

Hey guys below me remember a long ass time ago when microsoft said the console was going to be water cooled? What was that,2003,2004??? They failed that one.

[niaimack]

very nice well done

with a bito bondo on the slot and some paint it would look much nicer though

[HPKWI]

that is fucking sexy

[boan929]

cool mod

[Infinity588]

NIce mod just wanna know how you added the fans. I mean i dont see any screws or anything.

[40ozmaltliquor]

With magic.

[ODAR094]

super strong tape == Scotch 4010 mounting tape

 or

glue gun or mounted to mother borded

[thore022]

YES!! that stuff is amazing! use it for pc case mods for mounting windows. we used it to hold my bros sorta guitar decoration and it held for about a year b4 if fell in the middle of the night.

[GTAinHDgamer]

I am sure that you opened the HDDVD drive juste for show...........

[antandshar]

How would I do that when I only press the 360 eject? The 360 drive is in the HD caddy via an extended sata cable and a hand made extended power cable. I've been air and water cooling pc's for around 5 years now for various magazines. It was just a simple step to remove the drive for better GPU cooling. After all, you don't buy a high end PC graphics card, without a cooling fan. Why should the 360 be any different? It seems that MS have different opinions!

[GTAinHDgamer]

Yes......you are right.......SORRY.....that's the reason that there is and a fan up from the place where normally is the DVD drive...Right??? Anyway,you rock and you really have great ideas to improve cooling......... but sadly Microsoft could have better ideas...............

[MrHargreaves]

I bought a second hand 360 for £20. I tore it open since the DVD-ROM drive is knackered anyway. I have an original 1 generation Xbox 360 and I, too completely disagree with the configuration of the innards.

I plan to make the DVD-ROM drive external simply for more ease of use and to isolate its jet engine like noise. Do any SATA connectors work on the DVD-ROM? Can you instruct me on how you made a power-cable extension or is it really that simple? Thanks for your time, I really appreciate it.

[zenislevas]

@antandshar Hey man, put a video tutorial , i wanna do same for my jtag, wanna fans inside the xbox, because outside it suck b@!!$, its very tastefully looking xbox

[vladbebekh]

WOW NICE!

[vinnyman33]

dude thats so cool

[ceedawg04]

totally juked me out when you opened your xbox.. haha

[antandshar]

Hi, the fans are connected to a standard PC psu with it's own on/off switch. I wired it internally to run without a mobo and cut off all the wires not needed. (just left 2 molex connectors) Fans are 12v.

[deadmunkee]

i need some help could i install a Zalman (ZM-F3) 120mm fan in my 360 like for the back part where the cables go? or will i need a different type of fan?

[antandshar]

Hi, the Zalman should be fine. As long as it's a standard 120mm pc fan you'll be ok.

[UT00ber50]

Not sure why people put these videos together showing successful cooling, but don't share how they did it.

Normally the people who put together clunky junk are the ones who are willing to share and help others....I just don't get it.

[kryptonek88]

most likely he didnt make it. he just bought it at ebay or something.

[antandshar]

Please check the my photopage, it's in the video title. It's not to hard to find if you can be bothered to read it before posting!

[UT00ber50]

Says its a bad link.....Nice...

[antandshar]

try again sunshine....nice!

[UT00ber50]

Still just a bunch of gay pictures where are the instructions/guides?

[friedrice60]

damn bro that shit go hard!

[outlawzowen2k8]

sweet set up fans in a 360 nice

[Jrw363]

Do you have any guides on how to do this ourselves anywhere by chance?

[alex271]

do you have a tutorial on this.

[ManifestMikey]

now THATS how you mod a 360!

[b2ian]

are they both exhaust?

[antandshar]

Both 120mm fans blow air in, and the 2 rear out.

[haberman05]

Are you using the disc drive at all? or is that fan just blowing in air over the disc drive? I was thinking an 80 mm fan above the CPU...but started looking for ideas over the GPU. THat looks very clean mad props for doing it right!

[asdfgoogle]

Holy crap that is fucking awesome!!

The disk drive looks different though. Does it have a custom casing or something?

[antandshar]

I've used a 360 HD/DVD caddy

[asdfgoogle]

Awesome! I kinda looked at a few places online.

Where can I find one to buy?

[antandshar]

shame you not in the UK, I'd sell you mine! lol

Got 3!!

[asdfgoogle]

AH CRAP!!! lol. I'll be looking!!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction though! I'm not sending my shit to Microsoft, lol.

[youtoob123456]

its the new xbox 360 helicopter!!!

[patrick0031]

i just don't get it...

those colling fans are making such a fucking noise...even more noise when you have no fans.....

throw i out of a fucking windows and the thing will fly whit this huge fans:S

[Way2Fresh001]

nice job man lookin pretty slick i got a question though how were u able to put the fans in through the side?

[antandshar]

no, had to take it apart.

[FluffySanchito]

Of course he had to take it apart... He was asking how he fit them into the case. Thing is, he DIDNT until he removed the DVD drive and put it into an HD-DVD drive case. That's why you see the game in the HD drive

[antandshar]

Thanks for that fluffy! lol! Sorry about the abrupt post. My net has been down and I had to use my Iphone to reply, and it's a pain to use!

[manheaven8]

how did u connect the dvd drive from outside

[badfella8]

lol are you playing brothers in arms hells highway? =P

[antandshar]

Nah, COD3

[badfella8]

im sorry but that is loud i want one that is as quiet as posible i don't want a jet taking off when i play a game..

[antandshar]

I was using my still camera to take the video, it amplifies the sound too much.

[mikemike390]

thats sick good ideo with the hddvd drive as the dvd drive lmao

[keaton7667]

damn those are huge fans looks awesome by the way

[DarynThomson360]

Nice My Solution Is Just Puting A Fan At The End Of The Xbox And Taking The (Honeycomb) Off

[Charles2337]

Is it sucking the air out or blowing it in?

[pizzabite12]

every1 is just taking there 360's and doin all this crap to it (including me) i just got done putting in 3 new fans

[nathanleiapreston]

I'm speechless... That is a hella good cooling mod dude, i just wish the dvd drive could have remained inside the main case. That 360 will stay frosty lol

[Jrw363]

If i were to use smaller fans could i leave the dvd drive in the 360?

[ptballer57]

no because it would be pointless because the dvd drive sits ontop of the gpu heatsinks, even if you managed to fin fans ontop of the drive it would only cool the drive

[Densebuffalo]

that just blew my mind

[manche5t3run1ted]

that just blew my dick

[l0veCityDYL]

that just made my day

[quatro27]

do you have step by step instructional guide for this one? i'm very interested to mod mine

[slim9428]

how did you extend the power cables?

[margalimba]

what did you do with the stock fan shroud, did you remover it too? how about the rear stock fan, still intact?can you tell me a site to learn how to lengthen the dvd drive cables. I want your mod man,really, I had been thinking doing as you did long time ago, but my problem is the short dvd cables.I really want to take that dvd drive out of the box.there is no good cooling mod that can be done witht that thing sitting right on top of a burning GPU heatsink.

[antandshar]

Hi, Click the link to my picsite near the "subscribe" tab to the right of my video. This will give you a good idea of what i've done. I did remove the fan shroud and left the stock fans running to remove the air the 120mm fans push in. All i did to lengthen the cables was to buy some wire the same as the wire which the fans use. Splice these into the power wires ONE AT A TIME, as not to get mixed up. I just twisted them togetherand used electrical tape.

[margalimba]

I have seen the pictures, what do you call that red wire connector of the dvd drive, where di you get that?great mod man, I really like what you did,my only problem doing it too is how to get those cables hehe

[antandshar]

Hi, the red cable is a 2ft Sata cable. I got it from Ebay for around £2.50

[gopal892005]

red wire is a SATA cable.

[hybirdspeck]

im gonna use a rocker on/off switch to rig mine, (Dremil the back) to neatly cut out a section to put it..u know one of them ATX PSU lil black on and off switch. that's what im gonna use to power my fans along with the 3 prong power cable socket like what is use in desktops

[hybirdspeck]

Ok antandshar, i got the fans, i didnt get my hands on one of em Hd player shell ..not yet..but the wires...not the red sata..but the other 1 ..whats it called and what can i use to lengthen it (the white wire on the cdrom that u used)

[sejodieron]

BEST MODD IVE EVER SEEN

[antandshar]

Cheers man!

[ASSEMblerEX]

how did you fit them inside? They must be super thin because the 360 has almost no room in there..

[antandshar]

The dvd drive is in the caddy and the cpu heatsink has been cut down. Standard 120mm fans.

[osttoc]

wtf did you jus do? it was hot

[ridwanLAYOUN]

how did you do the black rubber around the circles. And where can i get a hd-dvd shell. i also have the old cpu heatsink , how do i shorten that one? thanks dude.

[antandshar]

Hi, The black rubber trim was made from an old usb cable! Just cut a straight line through it and removed the wires and trimmed to fit. I bought a pre-owned hd/dvd cheap and used the caddy. I can't really comment on the old cpu heatsink as I have the newer one. i'm not sure if you could do it with the old one.

[haris2k8]

nice mod

[Aqualeader5]

Do your disc come out ice cold

[antandshar]

Sure does! :)

[NewKingsMark]

Good but loud.

[antandshar]

It's only loud because the camera I was using is really bad for amplifying the sound.

[TILOGARCIA]

Cool mod!! Just one question, where did you get the black rubber rings from?

[antandshar]

Thanks for the comment! I made the rings from a usb cable sleeving! I cut a line straight down the cable and removed the internal wires. Worked a treat.

[ms1079]

fuck yeah man i like it, i want them hell bad

[wingman123]

Your window with the fans makes me want to draw a smiley face. You should get a custom paint job, if you find somebody within your family that likes painting they could probably do it cheap or free. Just an idea though.

[thebig813]

very nice i love it. Its one of the cleanest cooling mods ive seen.

[gowpanzinator]

hey, i mite be considering doing this. Where did you get the power cable to the dvd drive from? What exactly is it called?

[antandshar]

Hi, I used the power cable from the 360 and just lengthened it one wire at a time to the right length i wanted.

[BU5T3DxClan]

Dude! Super Nice! remove the dvd drive is genius! cuz thats sitting on top of the gpu heat sink. after my warranty expired i'll mod mine according to urs XD

[flaco98908]

That looks cool but thats stupid you had to take out the dvd drive...

[antandshar]

That's the whole point of modding, to change it from stock to something different. Having the dvd drive in the caddy was a small price to pay for excellent cooling and the removal of the 3 red lights problem.

[mileticeva]

how did you manage to fit two 120mm fan inside

[antandshar]

Hi, I removed the dvd from the 360 and put it in a 360 HD/DVD caddy after buying a 2ft sata cable and extending the power cable. I then cut down the cpu H/sink by 1" and that gave me the room for the fans. Check my pics at the site listed to the right of my vid and see what you think.

[horsewithbadfeet]

wow that is loud!

[antandshar]

Hi, It's fairly quiet, It's just that the camera seems to amplify the sound. No louder than an average pc really.