My Xbox mobo was sitting over 50 degrees C and I figured that was too high so I decided to do this air intake fan mod tutorial.

It has effectively lowered the temperature by 10 degrees!

Download here and let me know what you guys think. It's in a rarrer Word format.

thats pretty cool

Very neat. You might want to show that the fan can share power with one of the power sources on the mobo.

Mirrored for you as 225 Kb PDF, as opposed to 3.5 MB rar.
http://s87573135.onlinehome.us/xbox/Dreamcazman.pdf

Nice little tutorial! I'm going to add a link to it in the FAQ post!


VVVVVV Fixed

It may be just me, but your link isn't working.

EDIT: Disregard what I said.

Cheers guys.

Thanks for that Brahm. I didn't have the facility to make a pdf unfortunately...

Not bad, very helpful

that is a pretty good little tutorial, though I wouldnt solder to the bottom of the psu. seems a little risky to me and plus it would be much easier to draw the power from a hdd power splitter or if you wanted, you could solder to the pins that the yellow dvd cable plugs into on the MB (back side of course) there is a 12v source on one of those pins.

I was actualy thinking of doing this mod before I saw this. I think palmore did it except only on the other side blowing over teh psu.

combining this with a heatsink on the mcpx chip would mean a drastically lowerd temperature..

damn, so many mods I have in my mind to do right now bu tso little money to do them.

anyone know where you can buy a 60mm x 60mm x 10mm fan?

Sega27 - Those fans won't work, you'd never get it to fit in the Xbox.

I'm sorry everyone, I don't know where you can find a fan like the one I used, in the US. The CPU HSF I got it off was a no-name brand ball bearing type.

It wasn't expensive at all. I'm sure most computer shops would have something that is comparable.

The thinner the fan, the better

I found a couple of places that sell the fans..


here

This one looks very similar to the one I used

and here's another

and one more


Hope they help you guys out..

deviation56:
Werent you the one who put a fan directly on the mcpx chip?

I was just wondering how thick that fan is. I know it is 40mm but it could still be used if it is 10 mm thick. I was thinking of buying thath chipset cooler lit you used and putting the heatsink on the chip and using the fan on the side like this tutorial said.

@Dreamcazman

What do your CPU and motherboard temps average at?

That is very cool (har har) mod. I like how it leaves the case looking stock from the outside.

*bump* for teh sweet tutorial

hey i read the posts and the tut and i was wondering if i could use the stock xbox fan i replaced that with a 80mm one and now have the stock one just lyin around if it does i think ill do it this week or tomorrow. thanks

it would be way to thick, if he had to do some cutting to get a 10mm thick fan to fit, i imagine a 25mm thick fan or whatever the stock fan is would be impossible to fit

DAMN ok o well maybe i could find one for cheap hopefully ill check thos sites when i get some time. thanks for the quick responce

if im interpreting this right that fan is only 3.75 am i reading something rong all the ones i found were liek 13 or more

yeah its only 3.75 and then like 3.85 for shippng so a toal of 7.60... most of the other sites sell the crappy sunon brand for around 10-15 but this fan is a different brand, so its cheaper

oh kick ass ill be buying one very soon thanks devation for ur help and kick ass tut

oops sorry dreamcazman but thanks to you both

Hey Deviation, you wanted to know my temps. Sorry I haven't been back here in a while, over 12 hours time difference The fan should work great too btw...

Before mod, load temps for CPU was 61C, MB was 53C
non-load temps (at Evox screen) around 2-3 degrees cooler

After mod, load temps for CPU is 54C, MB is 43C
non-load temps, around 1-2 degrees cooler


It does make a huge difference! We have summer here in Australia too and it does get pretty warm during the day.

Thanks everyone for the kind words. It feels good to be able to contribute something back to the 'scene'. It's very much appreciated

well as of now before doing this mod i get:

43C for the cpu
34C for the mobo

so hopefully I can at least another 3-4C lower with this mod

Holy, I have never seen an Xbox run that cool..

I assume it's winter in your neck of the woods?

Great tut man, i'll definately be doing this at some point.

in the tut, it says....."make sure you have the fan adjusted so it is blowing air into the xbox"...
is that correct?? I was always under the impression you always want air to blow out............I'm still new to xbox modding so there is still quite a lot I don't know........

Nice tut, 54c on the cpu? ouch!
Mine is at 36c/33c when playing 4 hours of Need for Speed:Underground.
I have the 12v mod on the cpu fan and 80mm ghetto style side mounted fan.
Im still waiting the rip off xbox cooler to come from Egay.

I just completed this mod using this:

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_in...6878&pfp=SEARCH

that cooler includes 2 60x10mm fans and the power wires are attached so i decided to put both of them in... ill take pics as soon as my xbox is back together

yeah, if you want cooler temperatures, make it go blow out..


nice job though... that doesn't look like a panaflo though... if you want quiet while having good air flow, get panaflo

if i ever wanted to make it blow out instead of in, i could easily reverse them

Thats a Pretty nice Fan job!.

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from Klnyc

is it good to 12v mod the cpu fan if you got a 1.0 xbox?
I don't think I've ever seen that mentioned be4