Upon Many months of thinking of doing a liquid cooled 360 and not yet ready to follow through with the project I was playing one night and went over to change games And For Some Reason I Desided To Pick Up The Front Of My 360 And Feal Of Bottom of Console Under GPU And CPU The Was Only Running At Mid Level And The Case Was I Wopping 133 F According to the indoor outdoor Themometer I Tested Temp With Ok THat Did It I First Done Another Test By Cutting Side Of Case And Adding A Second 360 Fan On 12V Well That Done Pretty Good For CPU Side But Resticted GPU Cause Of The DVD Drive The Bottom Of Case Under THe GPU was still 108 Plus The Noise Of THe Fan Drives Me Nuts I figured Ok Enough Is Enough Time To Liquid Cool The 360
So I Began Researching LQ Parts And Found That Most Kits Would Not Work On The 360 Or Was Too High And The Ones That Would Work Ussually Required A Resavoir So I Desided If I Was Going To External Mount Some Of The Parts Why Use A Resavoir When I Could Just Use A Bigger Radiator And Another Fan And Get More Coolant Cap And Cooling Ability All In One Unit So I Came Up With A 240mm x 120mm Radiator And 2-120mm Cooler Master Blue Led Fans A 240 Lh Water Pump Pumping Through two 41mm x 41mm x 12mm water blocks And 5/16in Hose I Bench Tested Set Up With Two Propane Torchs Set At 160 degrees F On Water Blocks And Run Setup For 1 Hour At My Room Temp Of 76 F I Wanted To Have Target Of No More Than 12 Degrees Operating temp above room temp and this is what I come up with After A Hour Run Time GPU Temp was 87.8 F And cpu was 89.3 Because CPU was the second block the water passed through A higher Temp Is To exspected On The CPU My 360 Picture are of the process as the build happens No Internal Pics Are Being Shown At This Time Due To its Not Finished Yet upon A Second Test Of The Sytem I Had A Small Problem The Positive Wire Came Loose On The Pump And The Torch Burned A Hole Through one Of My Water blocks So It Will Be A Few Weeks Before The Install Process Will Proceed Keep Check For More Pics And Info As My Build Comes To Close The Passing Oh And The Wiring Harness Shown In Pics Is Where A Dual Gauge Pod Will Be Mount To mount My Gauges To Monitor The temps Pod Has Not Came In Yet Thanks For Looking
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