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944 days ago
Recently I purchased some new shells for my controllers and needless to say I am totally pleased with the outcome. Take a look see for yourself.
951 days ago
Well, I am actually tired after my last escapade, but I think I still have enough energy to write about the amazing transformation I put my Xbox 360 through at the expense of the warranty ofcoarse. Anyways, I recently decided that I had had enough of the Whiteness vibe the 360 kept giving me, so I did something about it. I headed over to Llamma.com and ordered a bunch of stuff put into the beast including a new case made by XCM that is to be dubbed "The Black Knight". Anyways, I recieved all of my shipment in yesterday and got started immediately. The first thing on the agenda was to rip out the cooling system and replace it with a more efficient fan system made by Talismoon. So I ended up replacing the stock fan with the Talismoon fan, and also ended up swaping out the stock air duct for a clear, LED lit one. Once that was done I started placing the LED strips on the top and bottom of the case to really get some glow out of the top and bottom vents. After ...
953 days ago
Well, well, I went over to Major Nelson's Web Site, and what do you know? Halo 2 (Windows) shows up in his gamercard. I thought that was pretty cool that not only will your Xbox games show up in there, but now the PC games you play will also have an impact. The only problem with this that I can see is that PC gamers should not be able to play with console users. I mean lets take some time to analyze the scales here. One person has a controller with two analog-sticks and the other has a mouse and keyboard. Any gamer with half a brain could tell you that even a complete newb could beat a seasoned veteran if all the veteran had to work with were the analog-sticks opposed to the mouse and keyboard, but thats a different story for a different time.
955 days ago
Last night, actually the night before last night at this point I was looking into some modifications that could be done to the Xbox 360 to keep that insanely hot Tri-Core cool. Anyways I ran across numerous techniques for increasing suction of the fans, watercooling the thing, wiring the fans to the 12V powersource opposed to the 5V they run on by default, etc. Anyways the most practical involved ramoving the mesh grill from the plastic case and then the metal housing, thus increasing airflow considerably and also gettig rid of some noise as well. The only problem with this was that if you know me, you would know that my stuff not only has to function well, but has to be pleasing to the eye. So I got to thinking and decided that instead of taking all of the mesh away I would just take what was necessary out to allow airflow to increase and also allow a fan grill to securely cover the opening. So after some hours toying around with a dremel and some zip ties believe it or not, I ...
