Zebracorn - The Xbox in a PC Case Mod
A client called and asked if I could fix RROD's for Xbox 360's. I said yes. She said can you add LED's and paint it? Maybe a new, high performance fan so this doesn't happen again? I said yes again. She said 'I want to have something different." I said I was down for whatever idea she had. Well, she couldn't think of what she wanted, so I said 'What about putting it in a different case? It'll be bigger and painted and lit well, with extra fans for better cooling. She said 'that sounds awesome,' so here we are!
My name in Nicholas Schaible, and this is the Zebracorn.
She wanted a orange, green, and purple case, so that is what she is getting. I asked what kind of design she would want, and jokingly offered unicorns and rainbows. She loved the idea's of unicorns, but wanted the unicorn to be a Zebra and have stripes. I thought it was cool so I agreed.
Basically what i'm going to do is mount the motherboard with her hard drive inside the case. I bought three push-button switches to extend the Power, Eject, and Sync buttons to the front of the case. I'm also putting a fan in the front and back, and creating an air duct on the inside that passes right over the xbox motherboards heat sinks. So it will be intake, long tube, exhaust fan at the rear of the case. That way air is blowing in and out constantly.
Also soldered a 4pin Molex connection to the 12v on the xbox motherboard for 3 120mm fans and 2 12' Green cathodes that will go in the air duct.
And as a last touch, installing 4 acryllic green LED case feet for that extra bling.
Here some pictures to start of what I'm working with. I still have parts coming in the mail from MNPCtech and Frozen CPU and Newegg, so as soon as I get those in, i'll update the worklog.
Happy Modding!
Nicholas Schaible - SchaibleTechSolutions - ApolloCustoms.
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