The Xbox 360 was the first console I bough after batcoming a pc gamer a few years Prior, and Oh, What a Machine that was. I still remumber sitting on my bed and starring in awe at the next-gene graphics in front of me as I sawed through local horde scum in gears of war. But before long, I was back on pc, and so it has been ever since. That’s why this sleeper building is making my nostalgia gland doomersaults.
Reddit User Razq_ has put a full-fledged gaming pc inside an xbox 360 slim: “I happy to have a dead xbox 360 slim console and this project was born as I half jokingly suggested we [the Redditor and their husband] Should Build A PC Inseide This Console. “
And so they did, and they’ve been living with this console-pc for over a year. They tell me it’s still “running strong” thought.
The brass tacks i’m sure many human of you are waiting for are the specs, which razq_ has kindly shared with us all:
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Cpu |
AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3D |
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Gpu |
Gigabyte RTX 4060 low profile (Using GPU Extension Cord) |
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Ram |
Teamgroup T-CREATE 32 GB DDR5-6000 |
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Psu |
HDPLEX 250 W Atx |
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SSD |
Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB |
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Case |
Xbox 360 Slim, Front USB upgraded to 3.0 |
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Wi-Fi Card |
A cheap laptop card from amazon with bluetooth |
The first thing that stuck out to me was that 250 w power supply, as it seemed like a low wattage for an RTX 4060 Build. However, after Looking Around a bit online, it looks like others have managed to get by with 250 with 250 w, especially if there’s some under-super-globs involved.
At any rate, things must surely need to be kept as slim and as low-power as possible to be kept inside a tight space. Surprisingly, Thought, the Redditor Claims the 360 Slim Form Factor waste too bad in the air cooling department: “The Xbox 360 Slimx 360 Slim Actually has grids on both sides
Which isn’t to say that getting it to keep cool was straightforward. To achieve cool enough temps, The Foam Tunnels Pressing Against The Top Cover Helped, As They Helped Keep the Cool and Hot Air Separate, and a Fan was added, too. Razq_ tells me that there is some thermal throtting in some game ° C under load for the gpu. “
The Redditor Says Temps Might be improved if they added another small noctua fan next next to the gpu to push hot air out. As it stands, the cpu maxes out at 77 ° c and the gPU at 80–85 ° c on max load -the formr was confirmed with a cinebench test the redditor just did earlier today.
It seems like the pc stays cool enough for some pretty strenuous work, too:
“I do take it with me if i go oversas with a portable monitor instead of my laptop if I want to do something intensive like blender 3D renders of video editing during my trip. Regular Big Cased Gaming PC For Work. “
It does not sound like it was easy to cram everything inside Frame. ” The cable management in particular (see the image Above) LIKE it would have been some ben somewhat of a nightmare to, well, manage. Nice ifixit screen to help, Thought -class choice.
An interesting part of the building is the original RF (radio frequency) pcb that’s been left in there, Connected via usb to allow for wireless Xbox 360 Controller Connection. This was achieved using This github project,
When I heard this – rash if the whole ‘Placing it insole’ thing wasn’s ’t enough to make me wonder – I was curious whether the couple use this gaming pc more like a console. I asked the redditor:
“Currently the pc is running windows 10. I have all my emuted games, steam games and installed pc games synced up to an open source launcher called playnite. It starts automatical You can simply Choose the game and start playing instantly. but I find that also satisfying. “
I’ve used Playnite Myself and can confirm it works raather well as a central game hub.
The only real issue seems to be the big power button not working, which i’d find a little annoying, myself. They reckon the problem is to do with the circuit board since the power button is in the rf pcb. But they’ve hoOked the on/off functionality to the eject button instead, which gets the job don:
“I didn’T want to cut any traces as I wanted to keep the rf board function (wireless receiver) and instead wired the eject button into it. It does it does not die [but it does] SUCK SOMETIMES as It’s Easy to Accidentally Hit Them. My goal is to install a custom physical button under the power button that would not block the LEDs. “
At the end of the day, with a little effort – Okay, Maybe Significant Effort – Thee’ve Ended Up with a Great Sleeper Build Inside the Frame of One of the Best Consoles of the Last COLESOLESALESON An X3D Processor and RTX 40-Series Chip, even if that is a lower-end one, is no joke.
I’ve been using an rtx 4060 laptop -the gpu in which is a less power than a desktop RTX 4060-and perfectly fin for fine or moderate gaming in 2025, espeacial Resolutions, which is presumably what this building is being used for the portable monitor. Lovely Stuff.
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