New cases warn you about temp

[Hybrid]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/xbox-360-hot-rock-case-changes-color-as-temperature-rises/

The color of the lights change when your Xbox 360 is getting hotter. If it's bright red, it means it's over 118 and needs to take a break.

[N1CKD]

Thats pretty neat...nice find

[Alon]

im getting one

[Lethal]

I already have something that gives you temps. You can also manually speed up or slow down your fans.

With the one you linked you have to use that crappy clear case.

http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/zz-360-highsp

[Hockeyguy219]

Thats pretty cool actually. If I had extra money id get one

[F34R]

Lethal, what's the hottest your 360 gets ?

[Hanzo]

Nice, but I never play my xbox 360 for more then 2 hours straight.

[Lethal]

Lethal, what's the hottest your 360 gets ?

Hottest mine has gotten to is 54c. Then I crank up the speed of the fans and it goes back to around 51c. Thats when playing Oblivion. The avg temps are about 47-49c for my system.

[Alon]

lethal does it come with unstructions on how to install?

[sum182oftheyear]

Damn that color scale sucks

[Lethal]

lethal does it come with unstructions on how to install?

unstructions? It does come with instructions which are ridiculously easy to use. Its the easiest mod you can do to your system lol

[F34R]

Hottest mine has gotten to is 54c. Then I crank up the speed of the fans and it goes back to around 51c. Thats when playing Oblivion. The avg temps are about 47-49c for my system.

so looking at the pics from the engadget article, they are suggesting taking a break at 44 celcius ? Lethal, ur box WITH cooling get's hotter than on average. So what do they recommend ? Play 20 mins, then give it a rest ?

[Lethal]

so looking at the pics from the engadget article, they are suggesting taking a break at 44 celcius ? Lethal, ur box WITH cooling get's hotter than on average. So what do they recommend ? Play 20 mins, then give it a rest ?


I just turned on the 360 and after an hour it was at 39c with the fans up 60% speed. It reached 42c at one point while playing transformers. This all with the fans at 60%. Not sure why I thought my temps were higher. I think I was confusing my PC with my 360.

[F34R]

Rofl.. that sounds a little better. I need to get an adapter for this whisper fan to put it in. I would love to get the cooling you use Lethal.

[Lethal]

Rofl.. that sounds a little better. I need to get an adapter for this whisper fan to put it in. I would love to get the cooling you use Lethal.

You can! The fan i use doesnt plug in to your 4pin fan plug. It uses a Y cable that plugs in to your dvd drive.

[puffdank]

Lethal was that product really worth the price and what all did you have to buy to actually install it , I assume it was mostly plug and play no soldering required? My nephew's 360 just stopped showing video out of no where and to my surprise the "towel method" which I used to laugh at actually made it start working again. Been working for 4 days now running about 5 hours per day. I am going to go ahead and do everything I can to it to make the temp the lowest I can get it. I already did the thermal upgrade , was going to do the 12v fan mod next but interested in more details about that high speed air cooler. Do you have any pics of it installed on your 360, like does it hang out the back or side or something?

Also for anyone else interested divineo.cn always has cheaper prices..usually takes about the same time to receive product.

http://www.divineo.cn/cgi-bin/div-cn/360-xhsac.html

[Lethal]

Lethal was that product really worth the price and what all did you have to buy to actually install it , I assume it was mostly plug and play no soldering required? My nephew's 360 just stopped showing video out of no where and to my surprise the "towel method" which I used to laugh at actually made it start working again. Been working for 4 days now running about 5 hours per day. I am going to go ahead and do everything I can to it to make the temp the lowest I can get it. I already did the thermal upgrade , was going to do the 12v fan mod next but interested in more details about that high speed air cooler. Do you have any pics of it installed on your 360, like does it hang out the back or side or something?

Also for anyone else interested divineo.cn always has cheaper prices..usually takes about the same time to receive product.

http://www.divineo.cn/cgi-bin/div-cn/360-xhsac.html

That fan was the best $50 I ever spent on this machine. I didnt have to buy anything extra to install it. No soldering, just plug and play. The monitor plugs in the back USB port. Dont bother with the 12v fan mod because then you are stuck with an extremely loud fan. This fan I got is completely adjustable.

[puffdank]

Ok I'll def look into it, I think I jinxed myself by mentioning the towel tricked worked. Because 5minutes later when starting todays testing it stopped working again , the graphics started getting strange lines and colors then shut off and on reboot no video -=[

[Lethal]

Ok I'll def look into it, I think I jinxed myself by mentioning the towel tricked worked. Because 5minutes later when starting todays testing it stopped working again , the graphics started getting strange lines and colors then shut off and on reboot no video -=[

Towel trick does not work. Longest I got it to work was for 20mins with Sums friends box.

[FILTHY J NASTY]

I got to agree with lethal those fans are kick ass man, best 35$ i ever spent on my 360 =] Little noisy at full speed, but CPU stays about 41C With medium fan power, and Gpu Gets 45C on medium fan power, this is after a all night gaming session of, forza 2,gears, and texas hold'm from like 9 till 2? not bad i say..

[puffdank]

I got to agree with lethal those fans are kick ass man, best 35$ i ever spent on my 360 =] Little noisy at full speed, but CPU stays about 41C With medium fan power, and Gpu Gets 45C on medium fan power, this is after a all night gaming session of, forza 2,gears, and texas hold'm from like 9 till 2? not bad i say..

Where were you able to get the setup for $35?

[FILTHY J NASTY]

Bought used, usally you can find them on ebay also used.