Headlines - Lian Li launches Xbox 360 modding case, says goodbye to RROD

[Agent]

Err, yes it does. I always lie mine flat.

it gets hot because directly underneath the DVD drive you have the GPU with a tiny heatsink.
And, if I'm not mistaken, The only fan to cool the GPU is located at the rear of the console.
That drags all the hot air across the board, over the crappy soldering and out the back.

The DVD drive and the area underneath the DVD drive gets hot. I can tell by because when I eject the game disc it comes out a lot warmer than I am happy with.

Ah, I see you are quite rightly saying that it's not the DVD drive, just the GPU heating it. But it still gets hot.

The original XBox took a lot of flack for being massive. And this is what happens when You cram everything into such a small case.

Ah - It was reading like you thought the DVD drive was the cause of the heat in the first post.
I still don't think it gets that hot to be a worry, but you're right in saying that the GPU directly under it doesn't help matters. Never had a hint of a warped disk though.

Either way, they should have dumped the friggin Xclamps years ago. Why they are still fitting them I'll never know.

[k4p84]

they should have dumped the friggin Xclamps years ago. Why they are still fitting them I'll never know.

Maybe they just got a few million clamps delivered from China

[mediaboy]

Maybe they got an image of a few billion clamps delievered form China decided that that would do and then started using them to find out that they were just CGI?

Of course, microsoft being microsoft, they then got the Thai to make another few milllion for them so as not to cause PR problems...

[k4p84]

hahahaha

[CaseyV9]

Boody hell

I just checked out the mesurements of the case. I know the 360's case is small but this case is almost as big as my PC's Coolmaster case. And the PSU is still external.

That's a bit of-putting that