i needed to build a gaming system to play games while at university in poland

[bane0of0god]

so i needed to build a system to fit in dorms. At first I was just going to water cool a jasper Xbox 360 and buy an easy-cap or black magic shuttle usb 3.0.

But it turns out that water cooling is expensive for anything that looks remotely cool.

 

so next i thought about building a mini itx system with an APU with 7750 and in side a silverstone ml05. However this would have come out to around £500. (I think i will just wait for ddr4 in 2015 when apu's get serious speed/power)

 

so then it came down that i just lost a couple of the Xbox 360 screws and deciced to just put my own mATX with in an xbox 360 and then pray it works.

 

so what i put inside of it was 

• ASUS M5A78L-M 
• AMD phenom ii x4 955* (thanks SSOB)
• sapphire 7770 ghz edition 
• random ddr3 1660mhz ram cas 9
• ocz vertex 1 (60gb)
• cooler master 450w bronze 80+

pictures will be added as soon as internet connection is re hooked up.

 

YAY I have internet again

 

[SSOB]

CPU?

[bane0of0god]

Thanks, my bad. Still waiting for fibre optic to be fixed...

[Ghost Taco]

Might have trouble with that power supply. But good luck nonetheless! 

[bane0of0god]

iv'e run the system for 2 years with this power supply with a 6770 and now with a 7770 it worked fine. at load it barely pulls 330w.

[criso8]

What school are you going to, if you don't mind me asking.

[Axis]

i think he meant: fitting it inside the 360 case!

 

lets see how it turns out ehehe :D

[bane0of0god]

so what does everyone think?

[Nicolas]

Holy crap that's awesome

[bane0of0god]

(back view)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front

[bane0of0god]

Part Two - lightly modded psu 

 

i wanted to add the radiator to the psu internally but it would have stuck out and compromised the psu cage instead i mounted the internal fan externally and  attached the radiator into it.

 

then used the xbox 360's really long screws and used them as feet via the mounting holes

 

[whatthe_fuzz]

dude....