How to make the Xbox “silent”
Tutorial written by: xboxmod08 team of Sweden
Version: 1.0
Date: 10 October 2002
Forewords
The xbox can be quite noisy if you e.g. want to watch a DivX movie. That’s why I started to investigate on how to make it less noisy. The trick is, of course, not to make it overheat. When you open up the box you will discover that you have three “noisemakers” under the hood:
- The HDD
- The CPU fan
- The GPU fan
The HDD
According to my investigations Seagate drives are the most silent ones. I decided to go with Seagate 80GB. It generates 25db. (The 40GB version only generates 21db!).
The CPU fan
Like many other hardware manufacturers, Microsoft installs cheap and noisy fans. There are many manufacturers that make good fans. I used the following CPU fan (it only generates 19db):
http://www.gtek.net/index.php?mode=item&id=334&session=15ea9607207c6b6bf725e79c1048fb5a
It is a little bit smaller than the original but that’s not a big problem. The installation of the fans is easy, the wires fit perfectly, and I used glue to keep them in place.
The GPU fan
This original fan is probably making the most noise in the box! I used the following fan to remedy the problem (24db):
http://www.gtek.net/index.php?mode=item&id=383&session=15ea9607207c6b6bf725e79c1048fb5a
What about overheating?
This part is something you have to carefully watch out for yourself! I have no problems with my box. In the xbox XDK you can get the following type of information to aid your installation:
