http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/12/30/xbox3 ... idcooling/Since the Xbox 360's launch, there have been complaints by some buyers about overheating problems. While there have been some inventive do-it-yourself solutions, CoolIT Systems will offer a retail liquid cooling solution in the future. The company will be showing off a liquid cooled Xbox 360 at the CES 2006 show in Las Vegas and could enter the retail market if enough interest is shown, TG Daily was told.
CES 2006: Xbox 360 gets liquid cooling
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CES 2006: Xbox 360 gets liquid cooling
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HardOCP tested it: here
Four years ago next month we built the world's first water cooled Xbox. At the time, a lot of people asked us why we would want to water cool an Xbox, mostly because they didn't understand the motivation behind it. The fact of the matter was that the standard heat sink on the 700MHz Intel processor would barely get hot under normal use and surely didn't warrant the performance offered by a custom water cooling kit. At the time, we did it simply because no one else had done it and "because we could." That was our motivation then and that is partially our motivation now.
We had plans to water cool an Xbox 360 for over a year now. Little did we know that not only will this water cooling project be more fun than the original, but it may even be practical. Imagine that. With reports of heat related issues and a heat sink that can get almost too hot to touch after marathon gaming sessions, the Xbox 360 water cooling project now had a sense of purpose. We bought a retail Xbox 360 specifically for this project. The minute we got it back to the [H] labs we tore into it and, with a little help from the fine folks at Koolance, we have put together a water cooling solution that will handle anything the Xbox 360 can throw at it and literally knock your socks off.
With stock Xbox 360 cooling, after an hour of Quake 4, the back of the motherboard temperature was 150.8ºF (66ºC).
With the water cooled Xbox 360, after an hour of Quake 4, the back of the motherboard was a full 50ºF cooler than stock cooling at 101ºF (38.4ºC).
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