{"id":8884,"date":"2006-04-18T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2006-04-18T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T14:49:22","slug":"cooling-off-the-xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8884","title":{"rendered":"Cooling Off the Xbox 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/xboxCool1.jpg\">If you have a 360 or have been reading up on them, you know that there are numerous complaints about how hot they are. They&#8217;re hot. One hacker has joked that he&#8217;s going to do an E-Z Bake Oven\/360 mash-up mod. Hey d00d, it&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/stuff\/41\/ezbake.shtml\" target=\"new\">done<\/a> (sorta). Rather than cook bit-sized snack treats on their boxes, most gamers would like to cool things down. It&#8217;s doable, but as <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.xbox-scene.com\/index.php?showtopic=503652\" target=\"new\">this tutorial<\/a> shows, it&#8217;s rather involved, requires you to do some serious hacking up of your hardware, and it ain&#8217;t cheap. This cooling system, centered on the Thermaltake home theater cooling unit, costs some US$300. And what you&#8217;re left with is a very Frankensteinian looking game console with a big silver box next to it. So much for J. Allard&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=713\" >elegant gesture of the iconic in-breath<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a 360 or have been reading up on them, you know that there are numerous complaints about how hot they are. They&#8217;re hot. One hacker has joked that he&#8217;s going to do an E-Z Bake Oven\/360 mash-up mod. Hey d00d, it&#8217;s been done (sorta). Rather than cook bit-sized snack treats on their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cooling Off the Xbox 360&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}