Xbox pc

[TonyG]

Picked up a broken XBOX this morning,dead as a dodo. So for a project to do over the winter nights turn the XBOX into a PC. Some pics of the project.

One XBOX.

One empty XBOX

With an ASRock K7 mobo sitting,very tight fit.

With the aid of a dremel it will fit

Lid will fit with some sanding of some uprights.

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

I thought you meant a dead XBox 360! Sorry for the misunderstanding!

I am sure that it will fit now.. LOL if you buy yourself a cheap £40 or so mATX motherboard, and a new E2180 with the ultra low cooler.. it'll fit without a problem

 

[TonyG]

May go for intel this time.

 

[stevej696]

looks like a tight fit but with a bit of effort i has the potential to be a god! what spec u plannin for it? Another tidy mod would be to use a Xbox Crystal case with blue led's inside.

Stevej696

 

[ionicle]

looks good

stick an emulator, and media center on it, and you'd have a right lil console

 

[stevej696]

Hi tony ive been doin some research and found something you might find interesting or useful. This is the link for you pal http://www.microdirect.co.uk/produc...Motherboards&gclid=CNDP09zLopYCFQ5MQgodJhPd6g

Happy Surfing

:wavey:

 

[TonyG]

Found a smaller scrap mobo P3,just to see how much room I can get inside case.







Plenty of room inside,will go for a slimline DVD drive,two HHD's mounted on mobo.

 

[ionicle]

2.5" hard drives would fit best

and perhaps a amd athlon 64, with slimline copper cooler?

 

[TonyG]

Thinking along the same lines,but which to go for.What graphic card to go for too. Thinking cap on.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Great minds.....

Im actualy doing this myself but with a Mini ITX mobo with a integrated Atom cpu, giga byte make one and its about £60. You can get very small psus aswell where the power use is so low.

 

[TonyG]

Looking at all options at the mo,would like to use a mATX but if not I will go the ITX route.

 

[ionicle]

micro ATX 939, perhaps a gigabyte board

a gig + ram

a HD3450, or similar, low profile card

then one of those miniture psu's, perhaps from a shuttle?

 

[TonyG]

Looking at that now.Height will be a problem for card.

 

[TonyG]

Breakdown of hopeful components.

XBOX Case.

2 X 2.5" HHD.

DVD drive.

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3450 Silence "Low Profile".

Mobo. -----.

PSU. -----.

Wireless Card.-----.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Im going integrated as its just for streaming movies and music for me, might get a half height gpu when HD is more mainstream but for now it works fine.

 

[TonyG]

Mine I hope to use for the odd film,internet,some games.

 

[Classified95]

That's cool.

Use a smaller cpu heatsink, and maybe make a mesh thing in the back, and add an exaust fan like the XBox 360/ a regular PC has.

Also, use Intel, AMD sucks.

 

[TonyG]

Mobo's that I may go for,

ASUS P5SD2-VM INTEL.

ASUS M2N-MX SE AM2.

Not sure which CPU's to go for yet.

 

[TonyG]

Picked the Graphics card up today.A few pics

 

[tinytomlogan]

How much did it set you back dude?