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But all important how much noise do they generate. We have fans at work that levitate themselves off a desk as the provide so much push, but are easily double the noise of a “standard” equivalent fan. For most the reason to fit a Noctura or similar tuned fan is its a compromise against noise. For someone running an SSD and only playing OEM games it should get that warm. It will also depend on where you live, as ambient air temps are either going to help or hinder.

No dumb questions here, you are on a voyage of discovery. There is a lot of knowledge here on this forum so ask away. Yes they use up one of the controller ports, but if you go wireless controllers, I doubt you'll want to go back.

I have never used conductive paint the solder points are simple enough. As far as longevity. I did a TSOP back when the OG people first realised you could TSOP it and its still fine. That box just runs as a iso back up of my games and runs an old EvoX dash board from the early 2ks. When you TSOP you dont need to lock the drive so no HD will be needed. It was only necessary back in the day for using the MS dash from boot and for going on XboxLive. Personally i have not locked a drive in years, and have been know to just wipe the key on the eprom, just because i can. There are many reasons to mod chip but playing OEM games is not really one TBF it takes more effort to mod chip than TSOP, and you need to buy/make a mod chip. TSOP only needs around 3 solder points and a soft mod game save and compatible game and the replacement HD once you have TSOP’d. theres som many disc images out there that will boot an os and install from the DVD that will only cost you the dvd to burn it to.

Ok Im sure that others will make comments also, but here goes. 100% unless its a rev 1.6 remove the clock cap it WILL eat the board. The 1.6 has other concerns in that area but is less likely to kill the board as dramatically as the pre 1.6’s can. If you only intend to play retail games, no point in going with a Ram upgrade as no retail games will even notice the upgrade and many wont run. First thing though would be mod chip update, either TSOP or chip depending on the board you have. A basic TSOP will be fine for Retail game playing. Anything not a 1.6 can be TSOP’s so no need to buy a chip. For retail only play a mod chip does nothing extra for you. 100%. Next thing is bin off the factory HD, most are going to be done by now and all were 8Gb or 10Gb so are tiny. If going with a PATA drive then you can fill your boots, but PATA never really went much above 1Tb IIRC. Much better is to get a SATA to PATA adaptor (Startech seems to be the better choice but cost more) then just plug in a SATA drive as Big as you can afford. Set the drive to use any non MS dashboard using the mod chip or TSOP. I rarely bother to wire up modchips with the ability to be turned off as its 100% not needed and the MS dash is pure nostagia and. Wont play any ISO’s so is next to useless. Those few mods will give you a box that can store all the ISO’s of games you own and give you the ability to play them without using the janky DVD drives which to be fair will be the weak point as they are never that reliable. The nice to have mods are :- After that you can go with a Noctura fan upgrade to give you better cooling and less noise. Controversially you can replace the CPU GPU Coolers thermal pads with new TIM as they are all old and harden with age and become less effective. Remove the DVD and replace with a second drive for more space and more ISO’s Or forgo the DVD drive and replace it with a extra cooling fan or just leave the space for extra air. You can also do a slim mod and loose that extra head room making the OG look more contemporary HDMI mod The amount of TV’s that support Component video each year gets less and less . Where as HDMI support is not going any where for now. Various methods are out there some quick and some more involved. Nice to have is a wireless controller mod as it opens up the ability to use XB360 controllers and not be teathered with cables etc. The conversion can be bought as a fit yourself kit or also as a build you self a-fair, but either way its very good. Hope that helps to start things off.

It would be interesting to find out if this ever made it to any form of production or beta testing.

Yes there were pictures pushed about prior to the launch in 99/00 ish

It’s worth looking up any old routers you have lots of them are WRT hackable.

Loving your work.

Never tried it but It should be do-able. An easier way would be to use a Linksys WRTG’d. switch. They are not expensive to buy and the hack is simple to do. You wont get WiFi 6 but it doesnt matter as the OG is only expecting to see 100mb anyway. I used one in our old house as networking upstairs was a no go, so it was used to provide wired connectivity to the Xbox and PS3.

Maybe I should sell my copy of Halo 3, the one with the really big box and the figures in, its un opened as I bought 3 of them. Once I have paid the mortgage off I could quit work.

Well fairly sure if the engineers name ever came up, there would be a price on their head. Maybe not in the, bring em in warm or cold kinda way. But every manufacturer effected would be gunning and media outlets would join the feeding frenzy that would result.

Only problem with that is it effected devices built before 1999, as shown by the thousands of Commodore A1200, A600 and A4000 that were damaged from it they were the only devices that had the Caps that caused it. Add to that TV’s and car stereos for example from the late 80’s. I wonder if someone was being economic with the truth the potential liability for that could be enormous to say the least. Or that the supposedly ok mixture placed in those caps was just as rubbish just that it took a few more years to come out. It that is the case the our Xboxes will eventually be next.

Looks like the TSOP is dud or more likely blank, could be that way after the previous owner tried to flash it maybe. Once you are up and running you could try and flash the on board chip and see if it takes a bios. That will prove one way or the other.

Deffo would like to know more, never bothered to find out why, just presumed that it was down to crap manufacture and age, added to manufacturers thinking that all the products would be in the bin before anyone knew.

Seen a few laptops suffer the same when they get the same damage. In each case cleaning and a couple of component changes fixed all.