jesse Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Hey y'all Just got myself another XBOX and I want to pimp it out. I don't know anything about this, so I figure I should ask some folks who do. I want to put in a 32gb SSD (faster, quieter, no moving parts), as well as maybe put a bigger/quieter fan in place. Any advice on how to do this? I'm truly a beginner and will likely need to be explained things like I'm a five year old. Also open to any other upgrades you guys think would be wise. I have no interest in softmodding. Just simply want to make it faster and quieter. Maybe a RAM upgrade? Thank in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGXbox Admin Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 5 hours ago, jesse said: Hey y'all Just got myself another XBOX and I want to pimp it out. I don't know anything about this, so I figure I should ask some folks who do. I want to put in a 32gb SSD (faster, quieter, no moving parts), as well as maybe put a bigger/quieter fan in place. Any advice on how to do this? I'm truly a beginner and will likely need to be explained things like I'm a five year old. Also open to any other upgrades you guys think would be wise. I have no interest in softmodding. Just simply want to make it faster and quieter. Maybe a RAM upgrade? Thank in advance! You can do all of these things. I built a portable xbox that I did these mods on... BUT There is very little to no performance benefit in adding a SSD to your xbox. I did it to save on power consumption, so I have one to compare speeds and there just isn't any. The reason is that the xbox is limited at ata66 speeds. Hard drives routinely blow past this speed. So, the only performance difference you'll see is in loading large amounts of small files.... where latency(seek times) come into play. This is not as drastic as you might expect. As far as the fan goes, when you mod the xbox you can bump the speed up so it moves more air and runs cooler. By default the stock fan runs at 20% speed. The reason I added a larger fan was so it could run at the full 12v but be quieter. There is a lot of plastic cutting that needs to take place for this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesse Posted May 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Blake, thanks for your response! Which SSD did you use? and which fan? Anything I should look out for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGXbox Admin Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 5 hours ago, jesse said: Blake, thanks for your response! Which SSD did you use? and which fan? Anything I should look out for? I used a 256gb Crucial M4. 70mm fans usually fit. 80mm don't. They need some cutting. I used a noctua 80mm so I had to cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T2Steve Posted June 6, 2017 Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 the 70 mm fan is my preferred way to go. no cutting needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave C. Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 Can you provide a brand/part number for the 70 mm fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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