Too much work, when you can buy a card reader cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Memory-Reade … amp;sr=8-3

FamilyGuy1 wrote:

Too much work, when you can buy a card reader cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Memory-Reade … amp;sr=8-3

But that takes the whole, DIY feeling out of it...

FamilyGuy1 wrote:

LMAO, really? (sarcasm, i know)
I can't believe someone would waste their time on this.

I have done similar things in the past.  It is a great learning tool, to do things like that.

I have one of my 360s apart, and keep looking what to do with it.  I repaired the DVD drive, by buying another one, and swapping PC boards, so I have a total of 66.00 for this Xbox 360, 30 to buy it, 30 for the drive, 6.00 for the open-up tool.  I hard-wired the GPU side fan to 100%.  I also added a small chipset cooling fan to the floating heatsink behind the power pannel. m Just looking and looking, see what else...  I may buy a WiFi adapter and internalize it...

Just looking for a local modding service, so I can ship it out...  I won't even bother to put it back together, that way, it's easy for them.  I will just ship the 360 with no case, so it's a quick and painless mod.

None of the Xbox360s have internal WiFi, but you can do that with the Adapter you buy, it HAS to be the Xbox360 WiFi adapter, no 3rd party ones work.  You take it all apart, and mount the board inside, and wire it to the REAR usb port from Inside.  Drill a small hole for an antenna mount, and put the antenna out, and upward, like an older wireless router. 

The cards are not all that powerful enough to keep the antenna inside, however, you may be able to keep it inside, and mount it by one of the upper vent hole areas, which is what I would do.  There is some space between the DVD and side, and more room on the right side.  One of the side pannels looks like there is room between it and the metal portion of the inner case.

Space is limited in there, you can also internalize the HDD, there is room for that to the far right.  Not sure you could take apart a wireless bridge, and wire it to the LAN port...  Where there is a will, there is a way, I know I could do it no problem, at least the WiFi adapter internlize, and HDD.  I think I will internalize the HDD, YEAH! Since I have it ALL apart, why not...

The XBOX360 mainboard is mounted to a 3/4 metal inner casing, with no top on it. basically, it's an entire case with no top, and partial front.  The plastic case just surrounds the 3/4 metal one.  The "X" clamps are also mounted to the metal, so it's a RUGGED design, no doubt.  Since there is no internal power supply, there is room for other stuff, mostly on the right side... 

There is no room under the DVD drive, the GPU and heatsink is right there, this is a MAJOR design flaw. The CPU heastink is huge, while the GPU one is thin, but uses twice horizontal the area of the CPUs heatsink.  Then on the latter modified GPU heatsink; that has the copper tube arm attached, with the floating heatsink behind the power button panel attached to that arm.  Just a cheap attempt to draw more heat from the GPU, but the airflow where that floater is, not all that good, which is why I added a 1" chipset cooling fan. Most of the cooling air comes in from the SIDES...  though the tunnel is designed for optimal airflow, the GPU still has that .5" x 4" scoop, while the GPU has the huge scoop...  Bad design, I have no doubt.  So, I wired the LEFT fan on high.  That, because I blew out that fan's circuit when the 1" fan wires touched momentarily before I could crimp a connector to them...

The console was ON when the wires touched, I was verifying operation.

A LAPTOP drive doesn't put out as much heat as a 3.5" drive, and it will fit in there...  They're THIN, it may fit between the plastic bezel and chassis on the right side too.  Thing is, the SATA/POWER port is a header on the mainboard, I need to make a cable.  llama.com has the instructions, looks like too much work...  I'll pass...

As far as the DESIGN flaw, they know it, but there is nothing they can do about it now.  That's why there is a PC case made specifically for the XBOX mainboard...  The DVD drive is right om top of the GPU heatsink, so you got the drive heat, plus the heat from the GPU?  NO wonder the lasers and mechanics go on the drives, the heat!