This is 3rd day I play my lovely xbox 360. The heated wind exhaust from the 2 fans makes me worrying. Right now I have table fan facing the left side of the xbox to cool it down. For sure it will not help much in cooling down internally. I read the water cooling solution, any other can recommend?

This post has been edited by Dothan: Aug 21 2006, 11:07 AM

So let me compile the summary of cooling xbox 360:-

1. Nyko Intercooler (how much?)
2. Air cond (your dad may curse you on electricity bill )
3. Notebook cooling pad (facing which side?)
4. Hang the xbox in the mid air (how? )
5. Elevated height if put horizontal (can put on the floor?)

Found out on gamerspot.com, there are 2 main causes for the system hang and overheat:
1. console itself
2. the uber power brick

For the power brick, "hang" in the air trick is put it on top of a shoe box with the box cover removed. It will let the heat dissipates in all direction.

Then it will be like my old desktop

djinn, why not do a bulk of water cooler for xbox360?

Can include the installation service as well?

Hi all,
My solution to prevent overheating internally : Use 4 pieces of chinese chesspiece (made of wood or marble or any material) and put them under the horizontal xbox, elevate the xbox so that ventilation is better. Will tell you the outcome soon

It works very nice. The fans aren't working so hard and the whole system running smooth!
I strongly advise you not to put it on vertical (though looks cool), this console need to "breath" and exhale the heat

Yes, i use the common solution found on internet - shoe box

The power brick is really big man!!
Anyway, did you guys touch the left side of the xbox (in vertical) or bottom (in horizontal) and feel quite hot?

Hi All,
I had googled around and found some solutions to our xbox 360 heat problem.

1. Nyko Intercooler (USD 19.99)
http://www.nyko.com/nyko/products/?i=71

2. Pelican Fan Stand (USD 24.95 at liksang.com)
http://www.pelicanacc.com/

Review on both Nyko and Pelican:
http://console.hardocp.com/article.html?ar...CxoY29uc29sZQ==

3. Koolance water cooler (USD 358.99 )
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_info....products_id=329

4. Coolitsystems (unknown price, not found in its website)
http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4227

4. Notebook cooling pad (variable pricing )

5. Our traditional desk fan

Hopefully djinn bro can do bulk for xbox 360 cooler

I would suggest djinn to do a bulk for xbox 360 water cooling device together with installation fest. I will definitely get one from him

Hi All,
With some research on hot air gun method to fix the 0102 3 red lights of death. I found out the root cause of this problem.

Due to excessive heat produce at the GPU (332 millions transistors) and it is covered by a normal aluminium heatsink. Furthermore, our 12x DVDROM also produces heat. The heat & cold cycle will eventually cause mechanical stress on 360 PCB. The soldering points will develop cold solder joint effect which will cause no current flow to our RAM chips, GPU and etc. Thus, the curse of 3 red lights of death will happen!

FYI, you may read the blog and the link provided by the blog.
Cold Solder Joint Weblog by Calvin Hsia
Cold Solder Joints (Technical article)

I think believe MS should use a socket to secure the GPU and the CPU rather than solder on the board (like our normal PC motherboard). But this creates another problem, modder will have fun on the board

Just another update on xbox 360 cooling.

XCM 360 High speed aircooler with LCD temperature display
Link

Not bad though but will void your warranty

2006 batch from MS is the one to fix firmware mod