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After purchasing my Xbox 360 premium and knowing that the temps are bad, I decided to add a cooler to it. On my last one, I went through the lengthy process of opening the xbox and adding a fan to the CPU cooler.

This time I didn't want to go through that much trouble and
I don't like the looks of ANY of the aftermarket coolers.

I made my own external cooler to accomodate my needs. It's kinda ghetto, but since I am the only one that sees my xbox, I don't care.

I took 2 80mm fans that I had lying around, a 4 pin molex splitter and a 12v AC/DC converter. All spare parts that I had.

I hot glued the two fans together, wired the AC DC to the molex, then split off to my two fans. I hot glued all of the stray wires down so it looked better.

The two 80MM fans wedge perfectly in between the AV cable and the power cable so I didn't have to attach them in any way.

I used a temperature probe and tried with and without the fan.

Stock cooling gave off 96.5*F temps, the cooler dropped that to 85*F. Thats an 11.5*F drop with very little effort. The room temp was 78*F.

I am going to wire in a rocker switch so I can leave it plugged in and flick it on when playing.

Dam that is fairly ghetto but a nicely made fan set-up bro. But we have to do this i think Xbox (or microsoft) should've put a higher power fan system into it as the high heat they let off aye.

Yeah, it's ghetto looking, but it sure works. The discs stay cooler and the system stays cooler.

The fans that they use are shitty, they hardly push any air at all, it was a bad design.

I donno, i think something along the lines of this I really dont mind spending the 15-30 dollars to buy a intercooler lol... but hey thats me