Xbox Modifications

[SlothX311]

I know it's old, but I was wondering how you replaced the 40 pin IDE with an 80 pin? I have not opened up my box, but I'm interested in modding it a bit. Do you have any advice or links that could help me out?

I can tell you how to do it, but I dont know of any sites, I sorta just taught myself. First off, if you want to put an 80 pin cable in your xbox you have to buy at least an 18", and thats gonna be tight, I used a 24", because the designers of the xbox decided to put the cable in upside down, so you have to do a little bit of origami lol. Other than that, to put the two 80mm fans on the sides of the case you just have to open up the xbox and remove the tin insulation stuff, and then cut the lid to fit an 80mm fan. Just the fans alone increased my load times by almost 15%, and also decreased noticeable lag when playing an intensive game like full server of halo etc.... I put linux on my xbox, and the temp was about 7-10 degrees celcius cooler. The last mod that I did was the light under the xbox, I'm gonna be honest, I just thought that it looked sexy, it wont increase preformance. lol

If you have any other questions I can try to explain step by step.

 

[bigsaucybob]

Nice job. looks pretty sweet. Did you do the controller mods as well?

 

[Yasu]

Those controllers are made by Pelican, I have one and they suck. The only good thing about them is the fact that they glow.

Nice case mod by the way, I've thought of doing something similar to that but I know I'll screw up something inside.

 

[SlothX311]

Those controllers are made by Pelican, I have one and they suck. The only good thing about them is the fact that they glow.

thats not very nice, the little pelican has feelings, lol it did what i wanted it to, and that was 1. glow green and 2. play gta sa and forza motorsport

 

[HP_TDI]

I think you may have posted the wrong quote from me, Sloth.
I actually did the ribbon replacement, and for those who doubted whether or not it would work, it does work at decreasing load times. By the time I read the word 'loading' in certain games, it's already loaded.
BTW, for those interested in doing this, I would highly suggest looking around for the right 80-pin ribbon to put in it. Basically, the lengths MS uses for their 40-pin are not commonly found lengths among ribbon cables. I'd special order it or something. I work for a computer company and we only had 2 of the right 80-pin ribbons in the whole office/warehouse