Hey everyone, this is my xbox iv been workin on and i have done everything my self. started out with a v1.0 xbox.

Specs:
V1.0, 120gig HD, Xecuter 3 CE chip, Latest BIOS, Front Control Panel(LCD/USB/Pro Switch), Lava Decal Kit, LED's, 2" Neon tubes(7 color and beat to music), Dual 4inch Red Cold Cathodes, Red Lit controller ports, brighter red eject LED, custom Mod Inside jewel with red ring cold cathode, ATA166 HD cable, and might add a DVD Drive Window with red LED's later on.

Dashboards/Operating Systems:
X3 Dash, EvoX, RemoteX, XBMC, UnleashX, Avalaunch, Linux(workin on it) and MS Dash

Video(audio got delaided): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWL_aYeqEu4











the inside being lit up by the chip^^^^^


LET ME KNOW WHAT U THINK


THANKS FOR LOOKIN

everytime someone buys a skin a fairy falls down dead..

everytime someone mounts a cathode outside a case, a troll spits on the fairy's dead body..





j/k .. feeling a bit ass'ish today. if you like it that's all that matters. definately a good starting point.. keep it up!

I reckon that's a damn fine effort Nothing original, but looking sweet none the less

stick on stuff is whack.

let your balls drop, become a man and do something really "crazy", then get back to us

in saying that it doesent look ghetto, and for a first attempt (?) i suppose its ok.

at least you didnt break it, so to that

btw your sig is way against the rules.

edit:i just realised you have those little stick on cathode sticky up thingys, i hate them so much. im sorry for being negative, but damn id hate to see your car

Good things:
-X3 modchip
-Jewel replaced
-Controller port LEDs
-Cold Cathode around jewel
-Replaced eject LEDs
-x3 control panel is nice but not really modding

The bad:
-Skin, skins are horrible and nasty, paint that soon
-Mount the Cathode internally


Its a good start, but we cant stand skins here.

no true "modding", its all "bolt ons"

not the controller port/p.e board leds, unless he bought them too

lmao... ah thats pure sig material right there

Deffinetly a good effort... i am a fan of cathodes (check my sig) but deffinetly not out side the case. I really like the jewel, and i adore controller port LEDs. The modchip and faceplact are awesome. But the skin.. not doin it for me. Id deffinetly paint it.

Good job none the less though!

Am I the only one that likes this thing? haha

I think it's pretty awesome and I like the skin ONLY becuase you probably couldn't normally paint somrthing like that. I mean cmon guys... at least he picked a cool looking skin. lol

i like it i think it looks bad ass

actually i think that skin could be easily accomplished with a 2 or 3 step crackle-paint. Go look up some info on crackle painting, test it on some plastic, rip off that sticker, then do your box. We'll give you mucho props.

Bah, skins, who needs em? Bah external Cathodes who needs em? And as far as those pointy short cathodes go, YECK, unless they're inside the case, then that would be kinda cool..

Overall, very flashy, maybe a bit too flashy, but I always find stuff to criticize, so it's not you, it's me. (wow that sounds awkward)

its not bad and pretty good effort.

however, you probably would have been better off without the skin. the outside cathodes look a little tacky too.

but whatever, if you like it then thats all that matters(i guess).

crazy modded

HEH

I agree with the rest.. everything is basically plug and play, no real effort done here..
x3 control panel - plug and play
cathode - possible plug and play with y-splitter?
skin - just slap it on

then you have some extra led mods that look like you done them yourself, thats nice!

but if you think it looks cool, then its all good =)

/pablot

too much, i get confused easily and i really have no idea wat your theme was on this besides to throw a little bit of everything onto it and yes skins suck but if ur happy im happy cuz thats all that really matters

everyones haten on external cathodes, but where do you put those big ones theres no room. i just orderd two just so i can post my xbox with two external cathodes sticking virticly on the top lol.

uh .,.. u dont... u use leds so u dont blow out ur hd...or have to switch them on and off jus to preserve ur hd...that cathode crap is bs...take the time to wire up leds an not have to worry about all that other crap

I agree with War Machine. Yea, cold cathodes are brighter and they give a more uniform glow, but LED's can give the same effect if possitioned correctly, they fit almost anywhere, and they're so much less strain on your HD.

I hate skins, take the time to freakin paint it, even if it's just a simple 2-tone like mine is (silver/black).

Personally, I'm not a fan of the X3 front panels, they just look really tacky to me with all the multi-colored lights on the front, plus the fact that it takes no effort at all to put one on; actually, it's not really the fact that it takes no effort, it's more when people swap out their front panel with an X3 one and say they modded their Xbox's.

Cold cathodes on the outside? C'mon man, it just adds to the already kinda-tacky front panel, actually do some modding with the cold cathodes and mount them inside if you're gonna use em.


Just my 2 cents

i think it looks great. You elitists are idiots.

i dont think we're "elitists".. i think everyone just expected a crazy modded xbox...when "crazy modded xbox" is the title... not a nothing really modded xbox.


i mean, this is the equivalent of having a car, and driving up to a street race, with neon lights taped to the side of ur doors, a vynal sticker of flames on ur hood, and those lil light up guages u can add to ur dash by plugging in like, one wire, and nothing done to the engine, suspension, or body at all.


within 5 minutes, u can turn that back into a stock box lol how modded could it be?

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Ok, sure, it looks great. If random bling is your passion. The aim of modding your xbox is to crack it open, and learn stuff you never knew before. I think it's pretty much safe to say that the majority of us real modders, open up our cases to push the limit, to make it look crazy in some way. To do something with our console that MS never intended us to do. Sure there will always be those who push like crazy to make their xbox look great, and there will always be those who settle for the lack luster skin-job. I guess I say good for you when somebody slaps a skin on their case, but what really impresses me is when they actually open up their case and start taking stuff out, putting stuff in. I'm not talking about modchips, anybody with basic soldering skills can pull a mod chip off flawlessly. When I see somebody who cut through their case with a dremel by themselves as a learning experience with hopes of moving on to bigger things, I'm truly impressed. Personally, I took on modding my xbox as a learning experience, hell, I always like putting flashy, shiny, colorful stuff in my electronics. I've had a PSP longer than an xbox, and I've had my eyes on a LED mod for quite some time, but I think I don't exactly have the skills for it yet, there's a lot of precise work involved.. So I decided it's high time I get an xbox, and some plans started to formulate in my head. Plans that involved soldering, cutting and a lot more. I figure, hey, if I get practice now, I can perfect it later, especially with the mod chips coming out for the PSP, thats going to be really hard to pull off. But, this is where I get my practice, on bigger things, as far as size goes I'm less likely to mess up, and if I do? Well then I won't be wasting a $250 device. Which brings me back to my point, we're no elitists, we just like opening stuff that shouldn't be opened and modding stuff that shouldn't be modded. I started with a computer, learned some stuff there and I am slowly working myself up to the smaller, more precise work. By no circumstances does having these ambitions make us elitists. There's always room for the add on modding, but for gods sake, when you slap a skin on, or buy a couple of cold cathodes and put them on the outside of your case don't boast. It makes the rest of us sick to our stomachs.
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Yeah, I didn't format, live with it.

Amen

What painting is pushing your xbox to the limit? Get real dude.
You have no idea what your talking about. Everything has been done, all your doing is copying what other people did. (chips, paint, leds ….)
Skins are for people who want their xbox to be more than one or two basic colours which has been done a million times already. Modding is fine but if it looks like ass in the end what’s the point?

I never said painting was pushing your xbox to the limit, but it's not a shitty tack on job. Painting isn't the only thing us "elitists" do, we also cut windows into our xbox's, we pull out our dremels and cut windows in our DVD Drives. And I plan on doing something I havnt seen done in an Xbox to date, although it should be fairly common, I guess people are just afraid it's too risky, anyway I also plan on putting a window in my hard drive. This is what pisses me off, when people assume, and a note for those who actually read through and paid attention to my whole previous post, I apologize if there were any contradictions or repetitions, I was tired and angry >:[



(Also, painting doesn't necessarily mean opening up your case, but alas it is the core of a good mod.)

well spoken, im 100% on with you now. those kind of cars are all i see now lol.

edit: but i think if yo have a cold cathode and you do something cool with it like put it as an underglow but cover it with plexy and have like a thin layer of paint so it looks kind of stock till its on, that would be cool and i think i might do that.

You haven’t produced any evidence you have done any mods. The one you did say you did everyone laughed at you. Sliding DVD drive instead of the tray or something?






Good luck with that you will be wasting a drive.

God damn, do you people REALLY want to have a flame war here? You guys are really starting to piss me off. You go and act as if you're all high and mighty when somebody proposes a new idea and act as if you're 100% sure you know what you're doing. Chances are you've NEVER put a window in a hard drive, and in which case you have NO idea how it will turn out. Fact of the matter is, chances are, if you do a good job storing the hard drive in an area mostly free of dust, and get the mod done in a decent amount of time, it'll be successful. Again with this assumption shit, don't make assumptions until you've tried it yourself, this thread really needs to be closed before I make any more anti-noob posts. It's starting to turn into a flame war.

actually the dvd drive window has already been done and it looks awesome as hell, so anything is possible, and your xbox looks good man, but what sparked the flame was the "CRAZY MODDED XBOX" part, reading that title made me think of an outrageous mod that just freaks the crap out of me, but turned out to be something ive seen plenty of times, but other than that good job

"HDD window" dvd windows are as easy as pie!

whoops thanks for the correction, yea i meant hdd window, looked pretty good when it was done

Yea It looks nice, Skins are no good unless they have a nakid celeb on them.... So the x3 is plug and play??

reguardless... I am the number 1 complete noob... and i just order'd the same kinda lights from ebay. the cathode ones.. and i know what im going to do with them... mount them on the sides....on the inside. may have to cut some of that thurr metal off to place them in but after reading this post.... ive come to the concluesion that lights go on the inside.. and skins suck. UNLESS theres a nakid celeb on it. I just order'd a gluegun... new solder pen..... new dremmel AND a bag with 5 diff colors of leds from ebay. SO i will be posting the most sexxiest sex box ever and you will spill your coffee once have seen it. so watch out here i come.

i dont think your gunna be able to fit them in the side, i thought you said you were going to cut the ccs.

you can remove the metal so you dont end up cutting yourself on the sharp edges...

dude wat the hell are u smoking? sliding dvd? i took out the tray becuz i added a slimmer one, made out of a dvd case, that was attached to the top of the case.

ive had 2 threads with pics here. where the hell do u get off saying i dont mod shit?

im one of the ONLY poeple who's ever successfully kept a functioning retail dvd drive inside a slimbox, and probly the only one who did it without making it a fliptop. not to mention theres a ton of other shit crammed into it, that should barely fit in a normal full size xbox. so who the fuck are u talking to? mr, lemme slap a sticker on it and call it a mod. get the hell out of here, ur a fucking joke dude. did u even put a bigger hd in? cooling? controller mods? no.. thats right, u slapped on stickers, and plugged in some premade crap that somebody else took the time to build for you. excuse me while i applaud in amazement.

How do you really feel? lol

He poked the machine... a War Machine you might say

your fat war_machine, lol FLAME WAR HAS STARTED!

Ok so if i were to put these....http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8826736752&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

on the sides... i could either bend them metal guards back and mount them on the metel... then put the case over it.... OR remove the metal and mount then on the dvd/hdd plastic rack thing.. im at work and dont have a open box in front of me so ill confirm or scrap these ideas later. BUT i will do this... lol even if it takes moddin those damn cathode lights with a plastic straw to get them in there.

Theres a tut floating around some where on how to remove the cathode from there bulky glass tubes so they fit better in the xbox it requires a liter and patients which i dont have so i stay away from open flame also by court order

way to long for the sides.

theres smaller ones though.

you could just use this




it would go with the rest of the theme of your box, plus i hear they are very easy to "install"

WAR MACHINE I think I love you

i love lamp... and yes it would go with the color... ill just glue the base to the jewel and declair it a jewel and light mod.

hey i got one of those on mine, no copying! im telling!

Dude do you ever fucking shut up?

'nuff said.

Near final version of my xbox, it looks a bit dusty, thats only because for some reason the camera picks up the protective coat in a very odd way.. Looks fine in real life.

do you even own an xbox, or have you ever modded one? becuase i have not seen anything relating you to an xbox, other then the fact that you post here sometimes.

^^lol


ive seen that done. not the dvd and the hdd alone, usually, the entire x, but, that looks nice. im not a fan of maroon or watever that is though lol or halo ::hides::