So I got my old XBOX back from my buddy, as it is it has no issues. But I decided I wanted to play some of my old games, and figured "hey, why not do some maintenance to it and improve it while I'm at it?" I got this broken in 2006 (it just had a bad optical drive) it was manufactured on 7/19/04 Also...check out that 1F cap!! nichicon UC series.
Here's what I planned on doing:
Add heatsink to nVidia chip (MCPX X3) the heatsink pictured is 5mm tall, should clear under the optical drive. By the way, is this a defective nVidia chip?
Replace the suspect nichicon HM (3300uF 6.3V date code 26th week 2004) It looks like they're on the VRM for the CPU, is this correct? I was hoping to use either Fujitsu bumblebees 820uF 2.5V, Sanyo SEPC 560uF 4V, or nichicon HZ 2200uF 6.3V
Recap the power supply with good caps. Has Ltec and Taicon. My question here, I should be able to safely replace the 0.22uF 50V cap with 0.47uF 50V cap, or should I not even worry about it?
Replace thermal paste under both heatsinks
Clone over to faster hard drive. Stock is 10GB 5400RPM, 2MB cache. New one is 250GB 7200RPM 8MB cache.
Does this seem realistic? Thanks for any input
Here's what I planned on doing:
Add heatsink to nVidia chip (MCPX X3) the heatsink pictured is 5mm tall, should clear under the optical drive. By the way, is this a defective nVidia chip?
Replace the suspect nichicon HM (3300uF 6.3V date code 26th week 2004) It looks like they're on the VRM for the CPU, is this correct? I was hoping to use either Fujitsu bumblebees 820uF 2.5V, Sanyo SEPC 560uF 4V, or nichicon HZ 2200uF 6.3V
Recap the power supply with good caps. Has Ltec and Taicon. My question here, I should be able to safely replace the 0.22uF 50V cap with 0.47uF 50V cap, or should I not even worry about it?
Replace thermal paste under both heatsinks
Clone over to faster hard drive. Stock is 10GB 5400RPM, 2MB cache. New one is 250GB 7200RPM 8MB cache.
Does this seem realistic? Thanks for any input
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