[Anubis_386]

Having realised my warrenty had run out (just as my 360 starts freezing and breaking down) I thought i'd pimp it out with a new case, some leds and while I was at it replace the nasty cheap cr*p thermal paste thats slapped on the sinks and put in some better fans in a effort to cool the beast down a bit ...

and heres the result



pretty snazzy if i do say so myself ... new fans are alot quieter then the old ones yet move about 15% more air, AS5 under the sinks ... and now it only freezes every couple of gaming sessions (those being maybe 2-3hours long) compared to every 20mins

[Neural Net]

Very nice Good to hear about those lockups occuring less, did you put AS5 on just the CPU or can you put it on the RAM as well (presuming there are sinks for the ram of course)? Apparently it's the video ram overheating that causes most crashes, least that's what a tech support guy said to me.

[Anubis_386]

I put AS5 on the CPU and GPU ... there aren't any RAM sinks ... or any RAM as far as you can see ...

The cooling is quite a stupid design really ... it simply relies on air pressure bringing in cool air through the tiny holes on the edges then tries to pull it through the heatsink on the CPU ... whats left gets trapped under the DVD drive and semi cools the heatsink on the GPU ... it could do with an intake fan really but I couldn't really be ar*ed to cut a hole in the case

[Neural Net]

Hmm interesting. Wasn't the 360 supposed to have some kind of basic watercooling? I'm surprised the ram isn't visible and cooled itself...

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by Anubis_386

I put AS5 on the CPU and GPU ... there aren't any RAM sinks ... or any RAM as far as you can see ...

The cooling is quite a stupid design really ... it simply relies on air pressure bringing in cool air through the tiny holes on the edges then tries to pull it through the heatsink on the CPU ... whats left gets trapped under the DVD drive and semi cools the heatsink on the GPU ... it could do with an intake fan really but I couldn't really be ar*ed to cut a hole in the case

Actually the negative pressure design works well for a lot of E-PC applications. I tried flipping hte 120s on my HTPC case (only 2 fans, and both are exhaust) and temps went up about 10C across the board...

I havent tried it in a real case yet but in a compact case it works very well