The Circle Is Now Complete

I made my final mods to my xbox today. I have the very first version of the Xbox, 1.0, and there are two loud fans inside. Microsoft used really cheap fans in the early versions of the console so I always dreaded turning that thing on. So the first thing I did is take the fan and heatsink off the NVIDIA GPU and replaced it with a NorthBridge heatsink. I also ended up replacing the case fan. That required a bit more work as I had to round off the corners of the entire fan in order to fit it in.

Once done, I was pleasantly surprised at how quiet my xbox was. Ah, silence!