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[docentore]

I just received one of those gem

Thanks Trusty, wonderful work, hard work well done.

Let us know how did you get on with it, any xbmc found outs etc.

[zorglub]

Let us know how did you get on with it, any xbmc found outs etc.

Yeah, i'll add my experience here for sure, all i can say now you can't go wrong, I used XBMC for years and still havn't seen anything better also I have no desire to change my habits but considering this upgrade as a revival that lets me view all my sources smoothly, i'll test some more later.

[Liquidvlade Hiraduo]

I got one also from trusty about a week ago. At first I was dissapointed with the emulators because they went from too slow to way too fast, but with the patch, everything runs beautifully!!!

But XBMC itself, runs smooth as a buttered pig.

[zorglub]

I feel dissapointed, I had a few times enjoying the system, but the temps in XBMC are alarming, 76C cpu temp and a 34C gpu temp... my fan is buzzing like mad.

After a close look inside, i can't see no malfunction in the fan speed but the heatsink did not seem to do its job

I did perform the 80mm fan trick , i pushed it to 100%, but yesterday after 15-20', it was overheating > 80° (180F) my testing ended by a marvelous orange blinking and i have to let it cool down.

Did you get some similar reports ? What could you advice me to avoid overheating issues and make a -usable- better cooling system ? Please let me know.

This post has been edited by zorglub: Jan 24 2010, 11:17 AM

[docentore]

I feel dissapointed, I had a few times enjoying the system, but the temps in XBMC are alarming, 76C cpu temp and a 34C gpu temp... my fan is buzzing like mad.

After a close look inside, i can't see no malfunction in the fan speed but the heatsink did not seem to do its job

I did perform the 80mm fan trick , i pushed it to 100%, but yesterday after 15-20', it was overheating > 80° (180F) my testing ended by a marvelous orange blinking and i have to let it cool down.

Did you get some similar reports ? What could you advice me to avoid overheating issues and make a -usable- better cooling system ? Please let me know.

had that problem as well. Had to remove the dvd drive (never used it anyway), move the hard drive over and put an extra fan on cpu radiator. temps are around 65* all the time.

Probably you could do some kind of air duct like in x360.

Despite that xbox is running smoothly. Thanks again Trusty!

[trusty]

I feel dissapointed, I had a few times enjoying the system, but the temps in XBMC are alarming, 76C cpu temp and a 34C gpu temp... my fan is buzzing like mad.

After a close look inside, i can't see no malfunction in the fan speed but the heatsink did not seem to do its job

I did perform the 80mm fan trick , i pushed it to 100%, but yesterday after 15-20', it was overheating > 80° (180F) my testing ended by a marvelous orange blinking and i have to let it cool down.

Did you get some similar reports ? What could you advice me to avoid overheating issues and make a -usable- better cooling system ? Please let me know.

Hi,zorglub,

My 1.4G XBOX is with the same heatsink as you, and I never remove any HDD or DVD frames,
but every day at least 4 hours continuously run,no any thermal problem ....

Anyway ,I am sorry that you have the problem on CPU cooling .please help check firstly is there
anything touch the CPU heatsink and make it lost the contact with the CPU surface,..

Secondly ,would you please check inside the routes of the cooling air, the idea is we need
force all the cooling air pass through the CPU heatsink's leaves, this need we cut somewhere
of the HDD & DVD frame toward the CPU heatsink to open the entrance of the cold air and block somewhere
around the space backward the heatsink to the fan to avoid the cooling vacuum leakage from the
CPU heatsink,,,,,,,, thanks to have a try and feedback,,

Sorry again,,
Trusty

[trusty]

had that problem as well. Had to remove the dvd drive (never used it anyway), move the hard drive over and put an extra fan on cpu radiator. temps are around 65* all the time.

Probably you could do some kind of air duct like in x360.

Despite that xbox is running smoothly. Thanks again Trusty!

“air duct” ,Good idea, docentore,,, Regards!Trusty

[supmax]

I feel dissapointed, I had a few times enjoying the system, but the temps in XBMC are alarming, 76C cpu temp and a 34C gpu temp... my fan is buzzing like mad.

After a close look inside, i can't see no malfunction in the fan speed but the heatsink did not seem to do its job

I did perform the 80mm fan trick , i pushed it to 100%, but yesterday after 15-20', it was overheating > 80° (180F) my testing ended by a marvelous orange blinking and i have to let it cool down.

Did you get some similar reports ? What could you advice me to avoid overheating issues and make a -usable- better cooling system ? Please let me know.

What is the room temperature where the xbox is running?
I have my fan running at 100%( i connected it directly to the power suply, not the MB) the CPU temp never goes above 70c. I have HDD and the DVD room. From what I remember xbox shuts down when temp reaches about 90c. Maybe try noisless fan from these guys:
http://www.wolfsoft.de/shop/index.php/cPat...eparaturen.html
Or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....archResult=True

Any fan should fit with the dimensions 80x80x25 mm

Also did you put enough thermal paste on the CPU? Let me know if you have any more questions.


This post has been edited by supmax: Jan 26 2010, 09:38 AM

[zorglub]

First, tanks to all for your feedbacks and suggestions

What is the room temperature where the xbox is running?

It's a 'cold' room, never got over 18°c, the xbox itself is under a projector, on a stand, it has barely enough space around.

Also did you put enough thermal paste on the CPU? Let me know if you have any more questions.

About this, i have to ask to Trusty, (the board i received was pre-modded), after my xbox got shutted down by reaching 90°C, it tried to pull off the heatsink to check but there is a sort of coating on the screws, then i won't think to try to remove the heatsink without further indications.

@Trusty
No big deal and thanks for the support i'm sure i'll find a way, like you said maybe the heatsink has lost a bit the contact with the CPU surface,.. the custom cpu board has two attach points with spring, when i put a little pression on the heatsink corner with no attach, i found it raises too easily.

The Air duct is one path to follow, I have to find a good flexible material to build an air 'corridor' covering the cpu to the fan because i still need the dvd drive, another solution would be to put the hdd outside the case and fix an extra fan over the cpu, but i don't like this kind of nasty trick + become way too noisy.

This post has been edited by zorglub: Jan 27 2010, 10:27 PM

[supmax]

First, tanks to all for your feedbacks and suggestions
It's a 'cold' room, never got over 18°c, the xbox itself is under a projector, on a stand, it has barely enough space around.

About this, i have to ask to Trusty, (the board i received was pre-modded), after my xbox got shutted down by reaching 90°C, it tried to pull off the heatsink to check but there is a sort of coating on the screws, then i won't think to try to remove the heatsink without further indications.

@Trusty
No big deal and thanks for the support i'm sure i'll find a way, like you said maybe the heatsink has lost a bit the contact with the CPU surface,.. the custom cpu board has two attach points with spring, when i put a little pression on the heatsink corner with no attach, i found it raises too easily.

The Air duct is one path to follow, I have to find a good flexible material to build an air 'corridor' covering the cpu to the fan because i still need the dvd drive, another solution would be to put the hdd outside the case and fix an extra fan over the cpu, but i don't like this kind of nasty trick + become way too noisy.

you can go ahead and take those screws off. Make sure you hold the bolts down so they dont turn. (ive done this my self) then you can check if there is enough paste. Although if your heatsink was already installed by Trusty, i doubt this is an issue.


Also is the xbox closed with the cover? this is important to create proper wind tunnel. I remember my xbox shutting off at 90c if I run it with case open and HDD case out.
Also try to connecting the fan directly to the power supply, you can do it with a special cable. Something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...1-009-_-Product

If the fan is connected to the Motherboard it may not run it at full speed. I have this same set up and my cpu does not reach about 75.

I am trying to install 2 more side fans on the heat sink flowing the air through the heat sink and out of the xbox, because I think think cpu will run faster if its cooler. And that could make that little difference in the HD movies.
Let me know how that goes.

[pkbunghole]

Iv got my 1.4ghz to idle at about 58°C.
The highest I have seen it reach is 63°C after playing very cpu intensive emulation (the stuff that wasnt possible on a stock xbox ).

I have removed the DVD drive, and put a laptop harddrive in where it used to be, I have cut extra ventilation holes, and I'm using an iceberq fan on the cpu with arctic silver thermal compound.

Its all working great, shame im gonna have to open it up again when I decide to get a bigger harddrive for it (only got 40gb in atm for testing purposes).

[supmax]

Iv got my 1.4ghz to idle at about 58°C.
The highest I have seen it reach is 63°C after playing very cpu intensive emulation (the stuff that wasnt possible on a stock xbox ).

I have removed the DVD drive, and put a laptop harddrive in where it used to be, I have cut extra ventilation holes, and I'm using an iceberq fan on the cpu with arctic silver thermal compound.

Its all working great, shame im gonna have to open it up again when I decide to get a bigger harddrive for it (only got 40gb in atm for testing purposes).

What kind of CPU intensive emulation are you speaking of i wanna try

[pkbunghole]

^

Play some Daraku Tenshi or The Crystal of Kings in CoinOPS or Tekken 3 in PCSXBOX

Theres alot of worthwhile stuff on N64 that can be run perfectly now aswell (although you need to use Surreal XXX B5 for the moment, since 5.1CE breaks support for loading large roms with 128mb of ram).

I would also highly reccomend playing Quake 3 arena, I havent tried it on 1.4ghz yet but I was very pleased with how it ran on my 1ghz box

[Rommul]

I have a question for those using this board.

What size harddrive are you using?

I hope to be able to use a 1.5TB or larger drive with this board

but I just want confirmation that this will work with this board?

Thanks guys.

[trusty]

I have a question for those using this board.

What size harddrive are you using?

I hope to be able to use a 1.5TB or larger drive with this board

but I just want confirmation that this will work with this board?

Thanks guys.

Hi, Rommul,

Though I don't know how 1.5T works exactly, But If you want try, it's better that you use IDE (PATA) hard disk instead of SATA HDD + IDE to SATA adaptor..because their command packages are different..