After firmware flashing your xbox360 or getting it done you might want to think about doing a few simple internal cooling mods while the case is open. These mods are cheap to do and can lengthen the life of your console. A cooler running console wont overheat and cause game freezing or worse the “red ring of death” that is very difficult or impossible to repair.

Thermal camera showing 360 hot spots + inlet temp..

Xbox 360 - Air Cooling Analysis chart
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Step 1
Add heat sinks to the high performance ram chips. Pulling the heat off these will help lower on board memory operating temperatures. This add on mod can only enhance performance and help keep things running smooth at a constant 60fps frame rate at prolonged periods of time.
(Buy ram heatsink)(Buy ram heatsink 2)

Step 2
Next you’ll want to increase airflow inside your 360 case. Forget about the nyko cooler I wouldn’t advise you to use it, or any other product that costs a lot and drains even more power during usage. Some draw power from the xbox and have been known to cause problems. New models of the nyko cooler seem to be ok. Increasing your fans voltage to 12v works great, but this will increase noise levels and you lose the auto sensing feature that increases your fan speed based on the temperature inside your case. if you don’t want the added noise you can order quiet high performance fans for around (approx $27shipped). You can also get the Xbox 360 Glow Stand with Fan.

Xcm High Speed Fan Vs Talismoon Fans

Talismoon Whisper Replacement Fans claim to move 58% more air, thats just marketing blurb but still a significant difference over stock fans.(order here)

Update Jan 08
New Talismoon fan for cooling the 360 is available for purchase..

If your having problems with your dvd-drive reading media discs, tweaking the pots might not be enough to give you uninterrupted game playback. The preferred solution is to replace the weaker Samsung optical laser with the stronger Hitach optical laser. 360 dvd-drives are not high quality, they are cheaply made and have weak lasers (especially the Samsung drives) if your having problems swap out the laser-optical unit from another drive or buy a new one. The Hitach’s can be purchased for relativity cheap (approx $30shipped)(order here)(try ebay).

You can read up and do this mod yourself or you can contact me. I have given free email support for the last 4 years so give me a try if you have any questions.

Email: Teamxmods (@) gmail (dot) com
Contact US: Jason @ TeamXmods

Samsung & Hitachi Laser replacement tut X-S
Xbox 360 Dvd Pot Calibration Tut

One thing is certain, if your having trouble….

* Dirty Disc Errors
* Discs sometimes loading, and sometimes not being recognized
* Games crashing half way through , due to reading problems
* and also glitching FMV or slow loading games (some games are just slow, its normal so be patient)
* the classic “OPEN TRAY” problem

New optical laser’s are a cheap & easy way to take care of your disc reading problems.

Hitachi dvd drive optical laser closeup…