Has anybody uprated the cooling fans on their Xbox 360?

I doubt it's the fans that can't cope. I was having a play with a RROD 360, opened it up and removed all of the tunnelling and ducting for the heatsinks.

Turned it on and after a few minutes, the fan speed increased quite dramatically meaning that under normal use, they're not working at anywhere near full capacity. I've never heard the fans in my Xbox ramp up through heavy use.

I did see an interesting link a few years ago regarding the heatsink ducts, and where if they actually covered the majority of the heatsink, would help to pull air across the entire surface area rather than just pulling the air in at the very end where it meets the duct.

My console is out of warranty now so I'm tempted to pull it to bits and extend the cooling tunnel... as well as cutting away the silly restrictive guards at the back of the unit.
 
Sp00n said:
Lol @ the external fans, I think i'd rather replace the whole xbox unit and go for one of those coolermaster cases or whatever they are.

@ Kainz: Christ! the 360 is loud enough without using Delta's :eek:
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Must be quite awesome to have a 360 that just hovers 2" above the surface its on though.
 
Don't bother faffing with 3rd party fans, the inevitable will happen, and when it does, you won't have warranty.

Microsoft's repair service is fine, save up for a second Xbox to use when your current one breaks.
 
lol
These 360's are nearly 5 years old (release day Xenon's (203W))
And actually they are quieter than my friends jasper's as the 120mm FAN's are running at 6v, the cooling prevents the noisy small delta's at the back from spinning up as they are obviously thermally controlled and the temp inside my 360's is now constantly cool.
Dust isn't a problem with the clear one as I dusted it regularly and have upgraded with 2 120mm fans only last week when I JTAG'ed it ;)
 
Also all this grab a Jasper and everything will be fine is just nonsense.
I repair 360's for friends and familys and have had plenty of Jaspers in that have RROD'd.
The cooling on 360's is fundamentally flawed and even the some of the lower current drawing 360's can suffer from over-heating.

The fans I used were cheap £1 BLUE LED 120mm Fans, no point using expensive silent FAN's when your gonna run them at 6v as they are silent at the voltage anyway.
So the total cost of the upgrades was about £5 (inc Grills & Glue) and 15mins of my time, not a bad investment considering it has most definitely increased their lifespan significantly. How many people do you know with release day 360's still running let alone two of them!!

Here it is running off the relay to reduce the cool down curve.

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I was thinking of placing one of those Notebook type coolers underneath my 360... Do you think it's a good idea?
 
Vesta_Man said:
Also all this grab a Jasper and everything will be fine is just nonsense.
I repair 360's for friends and familys and have had plenty of Jaspers in that have RROD'd.
The cooling on 360's is fundamentally flawed and even the some of the lower current drawing 360's can suffer from over-heating.
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Why would people bring you Jaspers to repair when they would still be covered under Microsoft's warranty? They have only been in production for just over a year, they will barely be out of the standard warranty let alone the extended 'RROD and E74' warranty....

I repair around four or five 360's a week and have yet to see a Jasper. The failure rate for Jaspers is around 3-5% officially, which is much better than the previous revisions.

Jaspers do run significantly cooler than Xenon and Falcon units, this is evident on JTAGed consoles where you can watch the temps. In my experience average temps for systems with stock unmodded cooling are:

Xenon: GPU ~75-85c, CPU ~65-75c
Falcon: GPU ~65-75c, CPU ~45-55c
Jasper: GPU ~45-55c, CPU ~40-50c
 
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DreXeL - The newer revision GPU heatsinks with the extra little heat sink connected via Heatpipe - Is it worth upgrading to?
 
It appears to knock about 5-10c from the temp, not enough to stop it from going RROD/E74.

Anyway, as stated by somebody else in this thread the RROD isn't solely caused by heat in itself, it's a combination of factors.
 
DreXeL said:
It appears to knock about 5-10c from the temp, not enough to stop it from going RROD/E74.

Anyway, as stated by somebody else in this thread the RROD isn't solely caused by heat in itself, it's a combination of factors.
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Thanks

But if you can help keep things cooler - There will be less chance of RROD right?

Also - With the X-Clamp mod - What do you recommend? Nylon Washers? or Metal?
 
Sure, every little helps, but don't expect it to be a certain RROD prevention.

As for the washers, it's much of a muchness TBH. You are less likely to create a short with nylon washers, but I personally use all-metal washers, simply because I buy all my washers/screws in bulk and it's simpler to just have the one type of washer.

In my experience niether type is any more reliable than the other with regards to the longevity of the fix.
 
DreXeL said:
Why would people bring you Jaspers to repair when they would still be covered under Microsoft's warranty? They have only been in production for just over a year, they will barely be out of the standard warranty let alone the extended 'RROD and E74' warranty....
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So that they can be returned to stock for sending back if I can't fix them :confused:
 
Vesta_Man said:
So that they can be returned to stock for sending back if I can't fix them :confused:
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If you're talking about what I think you are talking about then there really is no need to return them to stock, the repair centre doesn't dump the drive FW to see if it's modded. Besides, what your are talking about is fraud :)

Anyway I'm just going to come out and say it, I think you're full of **** when you claim to have 'fixed loads of Jaspers with RROD'. Like I said, the failure rate of Jasper units is miniscule compared to the Xenon and Falcon units, and of the small amount that do fail it's usually down to drive laser faults and not RROD. I could provide plenty of links to back me up on this, but just Google 'failure rate of Jasper consoles' and see for yourself......
 
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