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Making your 360 shut-up... a DIY

Posted Dec 4, 2006 at 10:19PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: DIY
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Xtreme Tech has a very nice DIY guide the helps you open up your Xbox 360 on your own, and make the noisy white and luminescent green box shut-up.

Warning for the technophobic: The procedures described in the guide can be a bit technical, and will require you folks to purchase sound dampening materials such as Dynamat. It will also make you use small scary tools like screw drivers and other what-nots to manipulate small creepy metallic objects. If circuit boards give you nightmares, go do something else. Also, if you don't want to void your warranty, don't do this.

Now that the warning's done and over with, you're probably wondering if all the work following this How-to guide will be worth it or not. Well, the results at the end of their guide shows that through their modifications, they managed to quiet down their console by around 5dB. Now, I don't know if that means a lot to you, but if you're one of those folks that dig all this modification business, you're probably going to to this for the fun of it and not the end result.

Here's one other interesting thing to note before I give you guys the read link to the guide, the folks who did the experimenting say that what makes the Xbox 360 really loud isn't really the fans that it's got on the back, it's the optical drive when running at full speed.



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# Yeah...Guest 2006-12-04 23:41
the hacked firmwares do this now too. Any versions that come in an A and B flavour the B is always "Quiet Mode". Course this only applies to backups but thats just something you'd have to "get use to" :P

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