Xbox 360 Portable

[QuickSkope]

Hey guys, im an avid reader of these forums and love all the projects, but im very interested in the Xbox 360 laptop tutorial thats posted on engadget.com (everything else makes perfect sense), and have 3 questions:

1. In part 2 where we hack the LCD monitor, I can't seem to find ANY monitors anywhere I look (I looked at the Source, still no go) Do you have a supplier for the WestingHouse monitor. if so, could you send me a link so I can get one.

Edit: found one http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Gateway-FPD1775 ... 952wt_1167 This gonna work? Also, if anyone can forward me to one, that would be much appreciated

2. In part 3, this picture shows the power, but above it is a PC power, is that from the LCD and if so, do you connect a male wire to the 3 power wires, black, red and green in pic 2.(or 5V, 12V and ground(ground is always black, if im not mistaken? which is which thought?)) and then when you plug them all in, you have 1 power supply.





3. Instead of destroying my CPU (I think) headsink by crushing it, can't I just use some copper piping and sheets of copper?

Thanks for the Help in advance

P.S Don't try to turn me away from this, ive done some mods for the Xbox (Modded Firmware and Burnt games) and been making a Desktop PC.
I have money to burn (a lot) I make 150-200$ a month, so im gonna try and get this right.

[collinE]

eBay is the best place for cheap monitors. First thing you have to know, all monitors are going to have different internals, so if you want to follow the tutaorial on engadget, you need that exact model of Westinghouse. I waited a while searching for it before one popped up on eBay. Nobody sells it anymore, so you have to look in places that sell used monitors. Second thing, unless you know how to build a small sound amplifier and want to buy your own speakers, you need to get a monitor with them built in.

For your second question, Ben used a male and female molex connector for the power to the monitor. You have to salvage them from broken electronics, or preferably, buy them separate. You can find them in an electronics store or eBay. You connect each power wire from the monitor to a pin and insert it into the female connector. The female connector is the part that is stationary on the back of the laptop. Then you attach the power wires from the power supply to a male connector the same way. You can then plug this into the female connector on the back of the laptop to connect power to the monitor.

Third question, if you have a way to secure the copper to the top of the CPU and create good heat transfer, then you don't need to use the original heatsink. He (and I) just used the original Xenon heatsink, because it already was the right shape and had a copper base that could be added onto. The newer aluminum heatsinks are impossible to modify in the same way, because they are a solid piece.

Hope that helps. Good luck!

P.S. This is way different than building a PC or firmware hacking your 360.

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[QuickSkope]

eBay is the best place for cheap monitors. First thing you have to know, all monitors are going to have different internals, so if you want to follow the tutaorial on engadget, you need that exact model of Westinghouse. I waited a while searching for it before one popped up on eBay. Nobody sells it anymore, so you have to look in places that sell used monitors. Second thing, unless you know how to build a small sound amplifier and want to buy your own speakers, you need to get a monitor with them built in.

For your second question, Ben used a male and female molex connector for the power to the monitor. You have to salvage them from broken electronics, or preferably, buy them separate. You can find them in an electronics store or eBay. You connect each power wire from the monitor to a pin and insert it into the female connector. The female connector is the part that is stationary on the back of the laptop. Then you attach the power wires from the power supply to a male connector the same way. You can then plug this into the female connector on the back of the laptop to connect power to the monitor.

Third question, if you have a way to secure the copper to the top of the CPU and create good heat transfer, then you don't need to use the original heatsink. He (and I) just used the original Xenon heatsink, because it already was the right shape and had a copper base that could be added onto. The newer aluminum heatsinks are impossible to modify in the same way, because they are a solid piece.

Hope that helps. Good luck!

P.S. This is way different than building a PC or firmware hacking your 360.

Ok,

Q1. Got any monitors you wanna recomend?

Q2. THought that those were Molexes : )

Q.3 Should I just use the old heatSink and crush it? How do I know which one is the old one, and which one is the new one. Doesn't the new one have that extra peice off the side (or is that the GPU heatsink?

Thanks for the Help with that,

And yes, I plan to play lots of L4D2 on this, but by the time it's done, Bioshock or mass effect 2 will be out, so I may do those.

P.S beat L4D2 before it came out.

[collinE]

I don't have any others to recommend. That Westinghouse is the only one I've used. I was just doing some looking and 17" widescreen monitors with speakers are definitely being phased out. You might want to take a pair of computer speakers and use the audio amp out of those... if the speakers aren't thin enough for the laptop, you could always look to purchase smaller ones.

I'm not sure "crushing" is the best description of what you want to do with your heatsink. This is the heatsink that you can rework

It has a copper base and thin sheets of stainless steel sticking up off it. It's pretty easy to pull them off with pliers so that you're just left with a copper base. Then you can put extra copper on top of it.

The newer heatsink looks like this

This is the one you can't do anything to. It needs to be half as high as it is and it's not worth cutting. If you have this one, find the old one, or make your own. And yes, the thinner GPU heatsink has the extended portion coming off of it, not the CPU.

[QuickSkope]

Ok, I have the old one, but frankly, im not gonna compress it, il just make a new one and mold it (done a lot of metal work in school) so I will make it work. Il make something that looks like that, but with a lot less of those metal sheets, and they will be rounded with 2 or 3 heatpipes in them. How about it.

P.S Where can I get a good version of adobe Illustrator.