Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-11-17, 22:07:
Got an RGH modded Xbox 360 S (Trinity). The controller will take some getting used to, due to the swapped left stick and d-pad positions. As a PlayStation guy, this feels kinda weird to me. On the flip side, I do like that it uses standard AA batteries instead of a proprietary battery pack. Makes long term use much more convenient, with rechargeable AA batteries being readily available for purchase.
I was a bit taken aback with the amount of noise this console makes. Upon closer inspection (and some googling) it turns out that the power supply brick produces most of it. Apparently, that brick has a small and annoyingly loud fan inside. I'll probably have to do some maintenance on that.
I have two Trinity units and use the same brick. That fan in the PSU is similar to the PS2 slim's fan in design, except... it's loud no matter what, I cleaned mine and it's still GOD AWFULLY LOUD! The consoles themselves are dead silent - both the glossy one I have (16MB) and the matte one (4GB), they're both silent. Glossy has the OG 250GB HDD inside it while the matte unit has a 640GB I harvested out of a flooded Dell (out of which surprisingly the HDD, C2D T9600 CPU and 16GB (4x4GB) worth of DDR3 have survived)
which has passed the HD sentinel test.
Speaking of bought - I won a CECHB00 japanese PS3 - the one with the absolutely GORGEOUS black trim!
Downside would be no card reader and WiFi, though I'll probably dive my nose into that as I have some spare CECHC04 parts to tinker with, and IDPS changing to a CECHA00 would be something cool as hell to find out how to do.
First thing in order though, swapping the PSU inside for a PAL unit - I'm seriously not even thinking of running a japanese PSU on 240V AC. Even if the PSUs is claimed to be universal voltage (100-240VAC)
That, and it supposedly YLODs. Depending on the duration, it could very well just be rotten NECs like my current CECHC04 has - this one IS CHOCK FULL of 1001 and 1002 errors in the syscon log.
Picture shown is my current CECHC04, that'll hopefully undergo capacitor surgery soon. I'll resort to doing only the topside NECs to avoid doing the wire bridge, and that should be helpful enough, I suppose.
Funniest and most ironic fact - the HUEG 203W power brick I use for my large stack o' 360 phats is barely audible compared to the slim's brick - even when used on the most fiery Xenon EXT_CLK unit I have. (which I should swap the HDD on soon enough - that 500GB Samsung inside it seems to be on its last legs unfortunately.)
"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
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