I Turned My Childhood Xbox into a Gaming PC! (2022)
Welcome to my latest PC build and mod video. Today we are transforming my old Xbox 360 into a beast of a gaming pc!
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“This might look like an old beat up xbox” >Shows the most immaculate and clean xbox 360 to ever exist
yes
Well now its a old beat up Xbox shell
Came here from tv to see this
especially a white one
Mine might win
It's loud, it's hot, its impractical. Nothing has changed but the performance.
I don't think the purpose of it was to dethrone the 360 in any way. Matt was just fucking around with this.
i think the purpose of the comment was to say all he did was increase performance its still the wild child console we all loved as kids @@Tuomaspoika
Lmao accurate! Those 360's were bastards for cooking themselves to death. And ofcourse with our trusty towels, we'd use that very heat to fix them!
I think installing some little rubber feet on the bottom would still keep it pretty stealthy and raise it up just a bit so the GPU can breath a bit more
Maybe use a CNC machine to add more mesh tor air flow?
LED light fixtures
@@HuaweiUSA722free fps, still don’t know why he didn’t add them
@@Noodlepunk As if the average person has access to a CNC machine
@@TheeAbstractHero there are places where you can send it off and get it done for you. Lol
I love compact gaming PC builds like this. Would love to see a follow up with better temps and improved case!
I’m shocked nobody’s commented to add more airflow to the case
trash temps, shit airflow loooool pure garbage
Drilling more holes in the outer case on the top is about the only effective option he has with the exception of somehow adding some external fans to improve cross flow but with the lack of space the system is creating convection (like heat swirls around in an oven) and it will eventually cook the CPU and will experience major thermal throttling in the GPU as well. While very cool this is just impractical due to the nature of PC components. This is why most PC cases are much larger that the parts you put in them!
A part 2 would be really neat. Still though, hitting 80-90+ degrees on average will definitally hurt the lifespan of your components. If there is a part 2, if you somehow magically find a way to clean up the IO and make the temps more managable then that would be cool. Still, due to the space constrants I don't think it will be possible to get good power, noise, and heat distrobution. Maybe, it could be possible to get 2 out of the 3, but not all 3.
For cpu it’s not gonna hurt is as much I have an 12900ks and when gaming like on battle field v it hits around 89 to 91 degrees at 5.3
@@arvixes8300 how? 12900ks at 5.5 ghz on a 420mm aio barely goes past 55c while gaming and 85c in cinebench
@@Iinustechtips you answered your own question
@@korruption2802 ?
@@Iinustechtips you have a 420 aio
Really nice build! I think a 3D printed new shroud could maybe help the little rear fans or may modded/trimmed slightly larger fans if possible?
3d printed fan shroud, IO shield and GPU mount would definitely be really cool
As a DIY enthusiast, I applaud you if this was your first go at something like this bro. Just like your "3rd time's a charm" approach, this can only get better if you do improve the layout, cable management, and airflow portions of the system. I'd love to see a follow up on this for sure. I'm all for unconventional presentations on consoles and pc's.
This is useless and hinders the performance
@@user-pp2ck2wb1f You understand this is a DIY sleeper PC, right? not an actual console. Why would this be "useless" and how does it hinder its performance if the airflow can be improved on?
The build would have definitely benefited from a vented air exhaust, as you stated in the beginning. I would've considered swapping the GPU with an FE style cooler that blows the hot air out. It will be tricky for the CPU, though. I haven't seen a consumer vented CPU cooler on the market.
just needs to put inch legs on the xbox and cut 2 holes for the gpu fans and a dust shield. you wouldnt even see the holes being on the bottom. for cpu can use one of those itx boards that can use a laptop cpu and use laptop cooler heat pipes and blower fans
I would've definitely used lower end, older parts, like an i3 10100f paired with a low profile card, as well as cutting out a few holes and adding a mesh over those holes to increase air flow. Overall though, impressive build. Made me want to try something like this with my fat ps3
Make a video about it
I'd only do it if it was broken Definitely been tempted by the idea of a pc fit into a wii, was thinking about finding an older NUC board with a 4 core 8 thread and using a graphics card over M.2, preferably one that can be powered off of it. So probably the low profile RX 6400 XT Maybe, just maybe, I can keep the components just within the NUC's included power adapter's wattage limit considering most of those things processors only consume 9 to 15 watts
Had the exact same thought about the LP GPU
The 5600X with undervolted dropped power limits is insanely efficient could probably get better performance with less power usage.
Man, I really want to put something in my old ps3 case as well someday.
I'd like to see a part 2! There is room for optimization with the system, so I hope you can figure out a way to make it cleaner and run cooler!
Very nice build! I would try to fiddle a bit more with the CPU and GPU undervolting and maybe try toswitch the small fans from exhaust to intake (without the shroud, it might not work very well in bringing cold air where it needs to be). Builds like these were really the ideal usecases for blower style GPUs of the past.
Imagine playing GTAV on a pc with 512mb ram. Insane what consoles can handle.
For real tho 😂
This really enlightens the childhood in me, I think you should definitely do a follow up video of you polishing up the small things that would be fantastic!
I think a blower style fan on the CPU cooler would help a lot with temps, since that fan is just blowing air at a blank plate at the moment. The little Noctua fans will be pulling most of the weight there, so glad you included them! Great video, and solid effort on what you've achieved here
Such a cool idea. I respect the lengths you went through to get it to work, including cutting and soldering. Impressive!
A part 2 would be awesome. I bet drilling a few holes by the GPU and that server CPU cooler would help a lot. Just need to get better cooling and airflow through the case
I love how passionate you were for your project, Love your works matt
Gotta say I normally don't like the pc in an xbox 360 shell because alot of corners i feel get cut but you kept the soul of the 360 alive in yours . Great Job
I've been building a custom Xbox One PC - Currently a 2200g but long term plan is a 5600 and an A2000 (To avoid needing to run a super high power flex PSU). Its interesting to see how your approach was different to mine (and much cleaner. lol) I've managed to internally have my PSU, keep regular motherboard standoffs (which I superglued to the case) but i've yet to solder the front IO (as I don't yet have a solder). Thank you for what you've done :)
this build is sooo nice I've searched for a lot of gaming pcs in old xbox 360 case and yours is the best so far and am impatiently waiting for part 2 ❤
Really great job so far man love what you are doing! I remember these 360s had after market cooling stands, I know you're not trying to add more bulk but maybe even seeing how those cooling methods functioned could give you some ideas.
I'm interested in a part 2 by the way. Would love to see you actually take your time in the bios undervolting the CPU and focus more on undervolting the GPU. As well as improving the airflow and cleaning up the exterior. This thing puts out some crazy performance for the size of an xbox 360 lmao. I love it.
Wow, congrats! The best console ever! I have an Xbox one s these days but I've spent several hours playing with my 360, I still have it and it plays fine. It's like giving a second life to your childhood gaming time with modern games and a modern PC. I've never seen your channel before but now I'm subscribed. Thank you very much. Keep up the good work
This build is so cool! I love the small sleeper build. Thank you for sharing with us! Id love a part two with better cooling and maybe a cleaner IO setup.
A part 2 sounds amazing these kinds of videos are what got me into your channel I am so happy you are still doing them C:.
I think a 3d printer would greatly help you on your projects. I really like your build videos!
Great case mod! I love how clean your content is. I did click in originally thinking that you somehow repurposed the 360 motherboard into a Windows machine though... I'd love to see that!
This is INCREDIBLE! What a great video to stumble upon. I would LOVE to see follow ups with this project. I'm even inspired to try something like this myself ;-;
While these Temps are high for sure, high Temps are still within spec. They'll be fine for a long time. It's not as if this will be a main pc with a lot of use. However, upgrading this unit to better the temps will be great content. Great video!
Great video. Not many channels make these kinds of unique video builds. I can only imagine the look on my son's face if I gave him an XBOX 360 for his 18th birthday and he finds out it's a modern PC inside. That would be so cool. I wonder if I could find one to buy that someone has already built. A part 2 to this one would be nice.
Builds like this are so enjoyable to watch. Good work
Bring on part 2! Optimum tech has awesome videos on how to undervolt and what it means! You give sff modders like me a smile on the face, good work!
Pretty nice build. Granted I can build a PC (with real drives like cd rom or dvd or blu ray and no RGB) but fitting and modifying a device that was never designed to hold actual computer parts I've never been good at. Good job at this.
This was super fun, it was a video like this (I think a build in a gamecube) that got me interested in your channel in the first place! Loved to see this! I’d definitely be interested in a part 2! I also think some airflow holes above the cpu cooler and/or wherever the GPU is intaking air would be worth the sacrifice in aesthetics, but really this is just so cool!
this is amazing, great work!
Wow, apart from the temps, it's a wonderful project and I hope you get to optimize it! Congratulations. Keep it up! You are awesome!!!
Looks heat! I love seeing a sleeper/hidden strength build.
"looks heat" you can say that again
I really think if you switched the fans to intakes bringing some air in would help temps. You could also undervolt and under clock your gpu. I would install MSI afterburner and pull the power limit all the way down and set a max temp limit as well. You could also pull your gpu core clock down. Your already doing really well in the FPS department so loosing a few fps wouldn’t make a huge difference. I think your cpu is running so hot because the gpu is offloading all the heat to the cpu hence why I also think switching the fans around would help! Awesome video none the less. This definitely makes me want to take apart my old Xbox one X and do something similar to this! Tho I would probably get 12100F just because 4 cores would be plenty for gaming and reducing overall temps. Thank you for the video!
Great build and a well put video. Very professional
Dude this seems like something I would like to try…earned a sub man great vid
I would not have destroyed a perfectly-working one, when plenty of dead ones are available for practically free from people's closets.
3 minutes in and the mention of a possibility of doing this again is super exciting. id love to see a part 2, and maybe even a series on it with old nintendos and playstations. you could even do this with modern stuff like the xbox s and x, and ps5. Love the possibilities and thanks for the banger vids!
he did do a game cube and a few other htings.
Yo this was dope! I was shocked seeing how this was possible. Crazy how it works, even if the fps is low.
that's the exact build to do a lot of experimenting and document the improvements! 3d printed air ducks that direct the air more intentionally, maybe liquid metal on both CPU and GPU, more aggressive undervolting/fan curves (I've had a lot of luck with undervolting in laptops, also setting profiles with throttlestop gives you a ton of customization, if you want the raw performance or prefer a quite system that still pushes all the frames it can)
Nice build. You can definitely drop 10c or more if you just drill some holes where the CPUs at and make sure the GPU also has ventilation. With your CPU cooler fan oriented that way, it's trying to suck in air thats blocked off so it being 90+ is not surprising. In regards to that EVGA card, the hot air is exhausted through the side fin stacks so a combination of more ventilation and small fans to help direct it out would help alot. An A2000 GPU would probably work well as its less than half the vol of that and takes only 70W or so. Definitely give a look at some of the SFF Yters, they've done some great builds in that size or even smaller. Would definitely be cool to see a part 2 where you polish and shine this up a bit!
I think you're onto something with the server cooler. something 1U height with a blower fan like a dynatron A18 would probably be louder than what you've got, but the solid copper heatsink and directed airflow should help a lot with cooling.
Nice build i really like that you used the original buttons of the xbox👍🏻 I build a high end pc in a macintosh classic some months ago. I solved the heat problem with water cooling but that only would be possible in this build when you use an external radiator.
I am beyond intereseted in this please make another video of you fixing things up and making it even better :D
I'd love to see both the custom xbox 360 chassis and cleanup of this sleeper pc as video content!
Hey Matt, excellent video, i would recommend that you use an Apu rather than a full blown GPU, that way you save space for airflow and components. Either way the main thin i woul do right now is add airflow on the top of the case, whether you use a discrete or integrated graphics.
Well, look at all those bunched up cables. Not hating on cable management or anything, but I'd think custom lengths would help airflow by there being less occupied space in there.
@@MonsieurKraken when? in a full size case, I'd believe that, but space inside this project is at a premium, and the difference could easily be larger.
as someone who've had all the xbox's from the original to the one s, i love this video, very nostalgic indeed because the 360 was the one i had played the most on
Such a beautiful build!
Hi, great idea and very unique project. IMHO you should make many small holes just above the CPU fan (and if possible above the GPU fans). This will help with the temps and probably keep the OEM look as the Xbox already has small holes in other parts of its chassis. However, my experience with the Ryzen 5 5600x is that, whilst it is a low tdp cpu, it 100% needs a very good cooler, otherwise it gets easily to 90 degrees celcius under load. The stock AMD cooler cannot provide adequate cooling to this CPU.
Yeah was gonna say I did the same thing to a digital Dec PC, and also ran into 90 degrees C temps, on both a Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 7 5800u. Custom fitting a 60mm 10000 RPM server fan inside and control with a potentiometer (believe me full speed sounds like a got dang jet engine) as well as using a low profile cooler pretty much made things more manageable. EDIT: and yes indeed the wraith stock cooler didn't help one iota, most likely due to the hat thing over the fan as well as the barely there clearance
would like to see what custom case you come up with for the xbox, and the improvements that can be made to the PC. As for the PC, do you think drilling some holes above the CPU cooler and above the graphics card would subtract too much from the look? Or would you try vertical orientation to work with the existing perforations and convection. After looking at the back more would the power plug fit in the graphics card shroud, or does the plug interfere with the fans?
i love the aesthetic of the 360, my favorite console, congrats my friend!
I like it. I have a black case like yours, and im thinking about doing the same thing to it. thank you for taking the time to make this video.
I bet it's literally melting inside 🤣🤣
One of the best sleeper builds I've ever seen. You're a legend man
Have you ever thought about taking orders to build one?
This was very interesting to watch as it would be more interesting to see what you do next.
i give you props for even attempting! job well done!
For the custom Xbox 360 build, you definitely gotta RGH it and make it the ultimate Xbox 360 that way you can run Homebrew, Linux, Emulators, unreleased and cancelled games, etc. It's a very simple process now with the release of RGH3.
Lmao. He made a PC into an Xbox, and now an Xbox into a PC. The circle of life complete.
I would be interested to see what undervolting on this system would do to the temps. you can pull clockspeeds and wattage from the cpu as long as the gpu remains locked at 99% or so
At least on the cpu.
@@ultimateclappage9109 the gpu is probably where you would see the biggest power difference. when I undervolted my 3080 at stock clocks I shaved 70-90w off
I have built a similar setup a few years ago and it's still rocking. I arranged the components in a very similar way, but the CPU and GPU are oriented towards opposite sides. I am still amazed by the looks. The 360 has a great design. Only temperature management turned out to be a problem. 😅 I made some minor modifications to the case as I drilled a grid of holes into both sides at the location of the fans. What do you think about the series x? I'd like to modify that to a PC, but the dimensions are a little too small for a mini itx Mainboard
The fact that, not only you mention the specs in the description of the video but you also placed the proper link for them. You are a good human, god bless
Wow, listening to someone talk about their "Childhood" Xbox 360 really hits home. I was very much an old adult when these things were new and it doesn't really seem that long ago either.
So XB is better?
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@@bongusXD 🗿🤝🗿
whats crazy is i have a Dell Inspiron One 2020, which is a all in one pc, and i was wanting to build a custom "gaming" pc, but didnt know where to start. This video helped alot, if all that could fit in a old xbox 360 then it can easily fit in my pc. the only issue i was having was figuring out the psu and i had no idea something like the one in this video existed, so thank you lol
Clearly a great idea to build a PC ! Hail from France and keep up the good work
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Incredible project with great results! I kind of want to build one of these now too, but at the same time don't want to be spending so much money on components. Looks like it would be fun though. A good way to repurpose a shell of a broken Xbox360, and we know there's no shortage of those. I already have an Alienware X51 which is about the size of an Xbox360 and also an Alienware Alpha, which is about 1/3 of the size, so not in need of another small PC, but maybe one day...
I still have my old Xbox 360 that I haven't used since the late 2000s, so seeing this is giving me a few ideas for modding mine!!!
please continue this, its absolutly awsome
This is a really cool idea! I will turn mine into a case for a mini PC running Steam OS ;)
Very cool! This is an inspiring project :) As far as thermals go, there are a few things I would try. First would be to use a blower style GPU, so that most of the heat generated is dumped straight outside of the case instead of the current GPU which dumps its heat inside the case. Then I think creating as much natural heat dispersion as possible would be a good shout. Adding mesh to the bottom of the case, or creating little gaps in inconspicuous places. Enough of those will add up to some decent ventilation. I noticed that there is also a fair bit of meat left between the factory ventilation holes, so drilling each one out to a wider diameter will take away a decent amount of surface area of the mesh, while still looking stock. I think trying to squeeze another 40mm fan into there could also work if you got some low profile RAM. Using at least one of the fans as an intake might be worth a shot too. If you weren't too picky about keeping it looking totally stock you could add some feet to the bottom to give a nice airflow gap. You could even incorporate some thin width fans underneath to force a good amount of air into the case. Either way, awesome build! ^_^
loved the video honestly tempted to try it myself and see how far I would get, not sure how much room you have available in the case, but I think it would be cool if you used an Arduino nano to run a little code that makes the LEDs on the front light up how they used too on the original xbox when you first turned it on. I know it's a lot of effort for such a small detail but just a random idea. also, could maybe mod on of the old HD dvd players to include a standard sata drive so you could run original xbox games but that's a much less useful feature these days anyway, either way, loved the vid.
18:39 you did a banged up job on that side LMAO
Nice! I bought an Original Xbox that was broken & plan to do something similar. Will be a fun project
"bro you still have an xbox 360?" "thats a fucking gaming pc"
Dude its awesome job... ive xbox 360 once, very cool case
Dude.. the fact that you are referring to an xbox 360 arcade console as your child hood console is making me feel old af. It was mine too. I got one in 2009 or 2010. I was around 12. Just turned 25 and holy hell man... time flies (i know I'm young). The first game I ever had was Resident Evil 5. I played the 4th on ps2 a thousand times. The joy when I got this console.. great video man. Congrats on a cool build
This is so cool, I'd love to see this done on the OG Xbox, that extra space would def help
holycow thats cool. you can wire the old rf to usb! what a FANTASTIC re-use!!!
Good job bro!
Looks great you were kind of hard on yourself on the looks not many people can even begin to do something like this. Great job.
This was one of my projects back in 2011 when the first APUs from AMD arrived. A X360 gaming PC without a dedicated GPU, but it was so powerful that even Battlefield 3 runs at very high settings. Good old times
Cool video and build! Fun fact the xbox RROD issue was fixed with the Jasper chip that was introduced with the 360 arcade model
For desoldering a component like the front LED and power button connector, you should try some Goot brand solder wick, flux and run your iron on a high temperature. Use leaded solder, you might need to reflow a few times since the factory solder is so old.
The Custom Xbox build sounds awesome.
Sick video. Man it still performs better than my XL ATX desktiop PC.
awesome. I used to fix RROD for 50 bucks, usually just needed to replace the thermal paste
I would love to see the Xbox 360 build and part 2 of this build as well, and ofcourse things will look a bit rough when doing these things, but atleast it works! so that's a plus!
Wow Brother man this is pretty neat good job!
Really cool!! i cant imagine all thoses hours you spend on this project.... Respect!!!
I gotta try this, also would love to see you build a custom xbox 360
They did make intercoolers designed to attach to the side of the console. You'd have to stand it up instead of on it's side and I'm not sure how much it would help, but maybe worth a try.
Being a compact pc and such small CPU heatsink it would overheat. But u can replace it with a compact, somewhat custom liquid cooling both for CPU and GPU. You can hide them underneath the desk or inside cabinet and it would solve your heating issues.
noticed that the exhaust for the two noctua fans is on the bottom the Xbox chassis, to greatly improve the airflow you can remove part of the metal wall that mostly obstructs and creates a solid wall that the hot air can not get through, planning on replicating this project myself and hope to greatly decrease the temps, also plan on using an am5 motherboard with a Ryzen 7700 8 core and a 4060 ti 16gb at maximum these components draw 318W combined and that's with every part I plan to put in which theoretically should work with the same power supply, these components should work with the airflow plans I have so I guess we will have to wait till I have all the parts here and then ill let you know how it goes and maybe you could potentially one up me afterwards!
Good looking build! Are you ever considering putting on the final touches you were talking about? :D Looking at 1:03 explains why the RROD never happened. Consoles after around March/April 2008 if I remember correctly no longer had those issues. Unfortunately my first 360 was from 2007.
Hey man, awesome build! Better than mine 😅 I did this back in 2008/2009 but was never able to go as far as getting the power button working from the Xbox. I used a separate switch. I used a triple core phenom CPU, server heatsink and fan (it was loud) with two laptop 2.5" hard drives in raid 0. My plan was to fit a graphics card using a flexible pcie adaptor but never did! I just used the onboard graphics for some basic oldscbool gaming. It was fun!
Perforating the side panel for GPU/CPU for airflow would be a good start.