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43 minutes ago, Baggashite said:

I've certainly tried to achieve some 'record' cooling on the Xbox. What I discovered, which is pretty much what I already knew, is that it's not worth the effort.

 These arrived today...

 

I'm going to mount them to the heat sinks of the CPU and GPU, and monitor their temps using an Arduino. Then I'm going to do the same with this board I've just added some funky heatsinks to.

And I'll guarantee there won't be more than about 1 degree difference between them.

bro damn , that looks niccceee, was literally on amazn trying to find to space them myself

[xbox hdm2 23 usb (sata help)]

 

[xbox hdm2 23 usb (sata help)]

1 hour ago, KaosEngineer said:

I'd suggest obtaining XboxHDM23 Beta 4 - an updated release by @Rapper_skull.  It has a SAFE mode.  When enabled, it allows you to access any hard drive connected to your PC, not just via a USB-to-HDD interface adapter. 

Make sure you are working with the correct hard drive before you prepare it - wiping it and adding content for the Xbox.

Download: XboxHDM23 Beta 4

Beta 4 contains no content in it's HDD_files/C or HDD_files/E folders.  If you are preparing a hard drive as XboxHDM23USB Beta 3 does, you need to download the Xbox Softmodding Tool's Build v1.1.8 / Installer Variants / XBHDM Build.zip archive. Extract its content and add it to the HDD_files/C folder of XboxHDM23 Beta 4. 

Note: A reminder on a softmodded console the hard drive has to be locked after preparing it before it will work in the console to boot the no-original-game-disc-required softmod installer installed from the XBHDM Build.zip file.

Or, if you simply want to build a new hard drive for a hard modded Xbox that contains the stock MS dashboard files, download, extracct and add to the HDD_files/C folder the content of Clean_C_and_E_files_for_Xbox.7z archive.  The E drive content contains only two (2) empty folders - UDATA and TDATA.

i will check this out , wasnt even aware there was a beta 4 of v 23 of the tool , and yes i understand the need for a warning , only two drives in the system are a Samsung ssd and Hitachi 500gb, trying to format the hitachi as xbox hdd (CEFXYZ partitions in fatx), the two drives are very easy to differentiate lol, you got the problem though , like i just have no usb adapter , have the sata drive with adapter , and have tsop xbox with nodvd check , i don't need any c replacement i just run xbmc straight from my c drive with evoxm8 bios on v1.0 tsop, but thanks , i will try this and be back tomo either way !

[xbox hdm2 23 usb (sata help)]

hey , so ive read threw prob a few hours of your posts, you are the closest link ive been able to find for what im looking for , having crazy troubles with xboxhdm 23 b3, i dont want to use usb , i have an adapter for sata to ide for inside the xbox , i need to access the sata hdd with xboxhdm without the adapter IE from the internal sata port ,i have read you and a few others referance these modded bat files , ive tried editing them to my spec which was PHYSDRV0 and it still doesnt se the hdd, i dont even want to copy like this just need it to format to the xbox file system , help plz heres a link to my dc if you have a min to chat https://discord.gg/DDeTT8Uz , if not ill just try to keep an eye on here , thanks in advance 

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hey , so ive read threw prob a few hours of your posts, you are the closest link ive been able to find for what im looking for , having crazy troubles with xboxhdm 23 b3, i dont want to use usb , i have an adapter for sata to ide for inside the xbox , i need to access the sata hdd with xboxhdm without the adapter IE from the internal sata port ,i have read you and a few others referance these modded bat files , ive tried editing them to my spec which was PHYSDRV0 and it still doesnt se the hdd, i dont even want to copy like this just need it to format to the xbox file system , help plz