zizux Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 The Goal: Hac'ntosh based xbox 360 That you can tell isn't a 360 unless you look at the back The Hardware: V1 Xbox 360 Case I am using the OEM Sata "enclosure" that the 20gig hard drive was in I would like to use the OEM power supply, but it only has 12V rails and a "temporary 5V" which is used as a soft switch, for my motherboard I need 12v, 5v and 3.3v. Zotac IONITX motheboard, with built in wifi and pci-x expansion 4GB DDR2 800 HDD 120GB HDD from my XBOX ELITE (I upgraded it to a 250gb hdd, I do have a bigger sata hdd laying around but this adds to the fun of the mod for me) Optical drive: Asus external usb BD-ROM. (mounted internal) Dell Optiplex 100W PS SL 10.6.2 *Everything works The Dual Core Atom 330 usually runs at 1.6ghz but I currently have it running at ~2.0ghz usually without a fan. This thing doesn't produce much heat which is nice, I would like it to be as quite as possible when finished so I might end up only having one small fan. Hopefully you won't be able to hear it. The over clock did help the performance a little bit but this was never intended to be a fast machine, but its good enough to "screw around on". HDD mod: Although I do have a sata adaptor for an xbox 360 hdd, I decided to just route a sas cable setup I have laying around. This mod was pretty easy, remove the 360 / sata adaptor and break off to off the stand offs from the top of the "enclosure". Here it is running with a thermaltake PS I had laying around. Here is a shaky crapy video of it running After filming that, I noticed the temps just kept getting hotter and hotter till it leveled off about 60 deg c. While running out in the open without a fan on it was only getting up to about 40 so I knew it was simply an airflow issue. I remounted the fan, and boom, much cooler temps, blowing the air out the vents above the motherboard seems to work fairly well, although I think I will probably go for an even better solution in the future. Here are pics of how it sits now. The to do list: Power LED that looks like one controller is on or maybe even better the RROD. Power Switch that works in the OEM xbox power button spot. Mount BluRay drive Add front access usb ports in the OEM location Eventually this will replace my current htpc, and I plan on adding a pci express tuner card in addition to my current usb one. When I do that I'll probably end up loading Windows, but till then this is my little Hacntosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207487-project-hacbox360/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
amigafred91 Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Very very very nice job. Can you describe if your configuration is a Retail one, or a ditrib installed ? Can you post your kext you have installed for rinnuing in under snow leopard ? A MacOSX 360 ^^ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207487-project-hacbox360/#findComment-1387317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zizux Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 I mostly followed this guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=197516 I had 10.5.8 running on one of my other laptops and bought the retail disk to do the install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207487-project-hacbox360/#findComment-1387845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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