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Well I have a xenon awaiting Hitachi LT2. Its overheated before but i did 12v fan mod for now. I have a lot of fans that I pulled from PCs but the best one i have is a 140mm fan. Now when i cut the case, would the fan work best pulling air in from top or out?

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Edit: Also, what would be the best place to obtain power for the fan? Right now I have it plugged into a DC adapter, but since I did the 12v fan mod using the dvd drive's power is there somewhere inside the console I can tap in to get 12v for the fan I am adding?
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The fan should pull out air.
heres a tut on where you can get 12v

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Here I have cut the hole using a CD to trace and a Scroll saw to cut the hole.
The fan is still externally powered and just sitting on top.
Next is to paint the case and seal the fan.
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best way is suck air in but the dvd power dude dont use that under the board there are 3 12v powers and 5 grounds hook everyhing up there make sure solder dosent ball or it can cause it can short on the case and i am going to use 4 10000 rpm fans on my case the 40mm ones but its gonna be really load so i cant here anybody being killed
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One of you said air in, one of you said air out, anybody else want to chime in on which direction would be best?
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lol fail avatar but i wanna do the mod. but my xbox is still under warranty
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Pull air out of it......................
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IIREDNECKSII wrote Pull air out of it......................


this seems most logic and thats what I have been doin so done.
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wrong listen the fans at the back pull air outso if the fan on top pulls air out it will jsut have to air going over heatsink i havea 140mm fan on mine bigger even than that on my other which im putting 4 on but that thing neraly runs 40oc cold i turn fan around goes to 60 70 so you see my point
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I believe thats what caused the xbox to overheat, having it blow out.. Gonna flip fan around but what the xbox does now is i get graphical artifacts on the dashboard then it freezes even before it gets to dash.
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