The Cynic Says……

HardOCP does it again! They were the first to water cool an original Xbox back in the day. Now they’ve decided to do the same with the new Xbox 360. The difference is that with the original Xbox it wasn’t even really necessary since it didn’t run all that hot. They just did it “because they could”. Now with the xbox 360 running so insanely hot and some people even having heat-related issues, lockups and the like, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. They basically procured parts from Koolance and built their own water cooling system for the 360. The cool part is that they did it with as little external mods as possible so in theory it could be returned back to its original form without much effort. It DID require taking the 360 apart, thus voiding the warranty. Anyway, it’s a pretty neat project and turned out looking quite nice. They ended up lowering the temps 50 degrees Farenheit which is a HUGE amount. Perhaps Microsoft may want to look into upgrading the cooling a bit with newer revisions of the console? I personally won’t be purchasing one as I am not enough of a gamer and don’t see anything compelling enough about it to make me want one. They’re nice and all, just way too much money to play games on a TV.