2005-05-07, 07:28
i have a (xenium modded, but otherwise stock) xbox that i only use to play music and movies with. i don't play games at all, and do not intend to use the xbox for anything other than mp3/video/dvd playback in xbmc.
my goal is to make the xbox entirely free of moving parts (besides the dvd drive). first, i am going to repalce the hard drive with an ide flash drive, then i am going to simply unplug the cooling fan.
my question is: since i am running off of flash ide, and there is no hard drive, there will be less heat in the case. the flash drive also takes up less volume than a full hard drive, so there will be slightly more air in the case. i will also be adding a heatsink to the i/o chip, which does not come with one standard. finally, i will not be gaming at all, or utilizing 3d in any way, etc.
so the question is, what will happen when i pull the plug on the fan ? will i burn out my chip ? or will the fact that i am not doing any heavy cpu, and the fact that i have slightly lowered the temperature by removing the hard drive cause me to be running at safe temps ?
if this sounds _unsafe_, what further suggestions do you have ? there will probably be slightly more vertical room for the existing heatsinks, which means i could put in slightly taller ones. further, i am not opposed to spending some money on some larger heatsinks that that cover a larger area of the motherboard.
the point is, there can be no moving parts of any kind (to meet my requirements), and i won't be doing anything outlandish like external case mods, etc., etc. - i simply want to know just how much more (if anything) i need to do to the inside of the xbox to run it safely with no fan, considering there is no more hard drive heat, and that i won't be gaming or pushing the cpu at all.
thanks.
my goal is to make the xbox entirely free of moving parts (besides the dvd drive). first, i am going to repalce the hard drive with an ide flash drive, then i am going to simply unplug the cooling fan.
my question is: since i am running off of flash ide, and there is no hard drive, there will be less heat in the case. the flash drive also takes up less volume than a full hard drive, so there will be slightly more air in the case. i will also be adding a heatsink to the i/o chip, which does not come with one standard. finally, i will not be gaming at all, or utilizing 3d in any way, etc.
so the question is, what will happen when i pull the plug on the fan ? will i burn out my chip ? or will the fact that i am not doing any heavy cpu, and the fact that i have slightly lowered the temperature by removing the hard drive cause me to be running at safe temps ?
if this sounds _unsafe_, what further suggestions do you have ? there will probably be slightly more vertical room for the existing heatsinks, which means i could put in slightly taller ones. further, i am not opposed to spending some money on some larger heatsinks that that cover a larger area of the motherboard.
the point is, there can be no moving parts of any kind (to meet my requirements), and i won't be doing anything outlandish like external case mods, etc., etc. - i simply want to know just how much more (if anything) i need to do to the inside of the xbox to run it safely with no fan, considering there is no more hard drive heat, and that i won't be gaming or pushing the cpu at all.
thanks.