Subj : XBox hackery
To   : All
From : esc
Date : Sat Dec 23 2023 01:41 am

Hey friends, anyone into modding consoles and things? It's a bit of an obsession of mine... :P

Today I finished everything but the dashboard/OS portion of a pretty lengthy upgrade process to an original V1.0 XBox. It's been fun :)

Things done:

1. CPU upgrade from 733MHz to 1.4GHz PIII "Tualatin"
2. Doubled the RAM to 128MB
3. Swapped the spinny 8GB disk for a loaded 2TB solid state drive
4. Removed the DVD-ROM and buttoned it up to make it look good, giving a ton of cooling benefit to the internals but also removing redundant parts since I won't need it (and also it speeds up booting and quiets things down).
5. Low noise/high speed fan upgrade (this thing is near silent at this point)
6. Stellar modchip

I'm pretty pleased with how this has turned out. My only gripe is that it looks kinda shit on my CRT for some reason and I'm not sure why. Well, I should say, the dashboard looks like shit, but games look quite good.

I've modded a bunch of consoles and continue to obsess over this....anyone else into this type of stuff? Would love to discuss more. I'm about to embark on a complete new Game Gear build. The only original parts I'll be sourcing are an ASIC of an original game gear as well as one connector that's proprietary. Everything else will be scratch built. :)

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