ThermalrightTR-360 - aftermarket cooling for your Xbox 360

[nitromullet]

A buddy of mine recently had his launch 360 RROD on him, so it got me thinking about 360 cooling again. I ended up stumbling across this thing:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7833.html

However, it doesn't look like Thermalright ever went anywhere with. I'm sure most ATers are familiar with Thermalright, but for those Console Gaming only folks: Thermalright arguably makes the BEST air cooling for PCs. I've had a bunch of Thermalright coolers over the years, and Thermalright is probably one of the few companies I would trust enough to risk my 360 warranty to do a preventative replacement of the stock cooler.

Has anyone heard anything more about this...? Do we need to petition Thermalright to make these?

 

[RaiderJ]

No need for it. MS gives a 3 year warranty for RRoD - and newer models don't have those problems anyway. Plus, replacing the heatsink would void your warranty.

 

[mmntech]

Could be an interesting project if your 360 was out of warranty. I know Koolance makes a water cooling kit for the 360 and Lian Li makes a PC style 360 case with pre-drilled holes for hoses. It also accepts I also saw another one where a PS3 was cooled using a Zalman Reserator and stock water blocks. Most air cooling mods I've seen for the 360 involve lapping the stock heatsinks, replacing the stock thermal paste with Arctic Silver, or grafting on 120mm fans. Nobody makes third-party heatsinks AFAIK, just water blocks.

 

[nitromullet]

That Koolance kit is way too expensive and involved for a console IMO. http://www.koolance.com/water-...nfo.php?product_id=328

I've also found a few X Clamp replacement kits. If the X clamp is the problem, these would probably do the trick as well.

 

[alcoholbob]

Isn't red ring of death typically the DVD drive failure? In that case that's a mechanical failure I'm not sure cooling the board would would a direct effect.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
Isn't red ring of death typically the DVD drive failure? In that case that's a mechanical failure I'm not sure cooling the board would would a direct effect.

RROD is becasue the solder connecting the GPU to the board cracks most likely I think because the motherboard flexes when it gets really hot and they used crap solder or something.


P.S. I traded in my launch 360 during a deal and basically got a new one for something like 20 dollars. It doesn't have heat issues at all.

 

[boomhower]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
A buddy of mine recently had his launch 360 RROD on him, so it got me thinking about 360 cooling again. I ended up stumbling across this thing:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7833.html

However, it doesn't look like Thermalright ever went anywhere with. I'm sure most ATers are familiar with Thermalright, but for those Console Gaming only folks: Thermalright arguably makes the BEST air cooling for PCs. I've had a bunch of Thermalright coolers over the years, and Thermalright is probably one of the few companies I would trust enough to risk my 360 warranty to do a preventative replacement of the stock cooler.

Has anyone heard anything more about this...? Do we need to petition Thermalright to make these?

Mainly because the market would be tiny. Very few people are going to want to tear apart their console to install something like this. They would make a ton more money by making another crappy "intercooler" stick in some nice packaging and letting stupid teenagers waste their money on it.

 

[AndroidVageta]

From what I've read the shrinking of the CPU die cut down on heat quite alot and pretty much got rid of the over heating problems the first 360's had.

 

[exar333]

Originally posted by: AndroidVageta
From what I've read the shrinking of the CPU die cut down on heat quite alot and pretty much got rid of the over heating problems the first 360's had.

That helped, but the real change was when the GPU die was shrunk to 65nm. MS first die-shrunk the CPU to 65nm, and then the GPU, now the newest version has both running at 65nm; much cooler.