I'm a PC enthusiast, and naturally I want to fit RGB lights on every single device I own🤓 [br]
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Anyway, my Xbox is getting very dusty, and forza horizon 5 constantly stutters(I haven't encountered that issue when I first got it). I have been planning to clean it for a long time, but one day I looked at my PC's ARGB fans and thought: Why don't I fit it in the Xbox? From what I can tell from the guide, the fan inside the Xbox uses a 4-pin connector, but the socket is slightly different from what you'd expect on a PC. I have some experience in soldering, and had successively connected some severed fan cables in my PC together, so I figure it wouldn't be hard to connect the Xbox socket to a normal PC case fan. For the lighting I can just use an external controller for motherboards that don't support ARGB, and anyway some fans by Cooler Master lights up on their own without controllers anyway. [br]
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The main problem is anchoring the fan. The Xbox uses a custom fan, from what I can tell from the iFixit guide, the fan is a 130mm fan custom-made by Microsoft (with Master Chief on it), and normal fans would not fit. Can somebody tell me how to anchor a 120mm fan on the Xbox? Or, can anyone help me find a 130mm fan that comes with RGB lighting? I'm thinking about long screws that would somehow poke through the grille on the front(very convenient anchoring points), but that's just ugly. [br]
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Any help would be appreciated.
I'm a PC enthusiast, and naturally I want to fit RGB lights on every single device I own🤓 [br]
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Anyway, my Xbox is getting very dusty, and forza horizon 5 constantly stutters(I haven't encountered that issue when I first got it). I have been planning to clean it for a long time, but one day I looked at my PC's ARGB fans and thought: Why don't I fit it in the Xbox? From what I can tell from the guide, the fan inside the Xbox uses a 4-pin connector, but the socket is slightly different from what you'd expect on a PC. I have some experience in soldering, and had successively connected some severed fan cables in my PC together, so I figure it wouldn't be hard to connect the Xbox socket to a normal PC case fan. For the lighting I can just use an external controller for motherboards that don't support ARGB, and anyway some fans by Cooler Master lights up on their own without controllers anyway. [br]
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Anyway, my Xbox is getting very dusty, and forza horizon 5 constantly stutters(I haven't encountered that issue when I first got it). I have been planning to clean it for a long time, but one day I looked at my PC's ARGB fans and thought: Why don't I fit it in the Xbox? From what I can tell from the guide, the fan inside the Xbox uses a 4-pin connector, but the socket is slightly different from what you'd expect on a PC. I have some experience in soldering, and had successively connected some severed fan cables in my PC together, so I figure it wouldn't be hard to connect the Xbox socket to a normal PC case fan. For the lighting I can just use an external controller for motherboards that don't support ARGB, and anyway some fans by Cooler Master lights up on their own without controllers anyway. [br]
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The main problem is anchoring the fan. The Xbox uses a custom fan, from what I can tell from the iFixit guide, the fan is a 130mm fan custom-made by Microsoft (with Master Chief on it), and normal fans would not fit. Can somebody tell me how to anchor a 120mm fan on the Xbox? Or, can anyone help me find a 130mm fan that comes with RGB lighting? I'm thinking about long screws that would somehow poke through the grille on the front(very convenient anchoring points), but that's just ugly. [br]
I'm a PC enthusiast, and naturally I want to fit RGB lights on every single device I own🤓 [br]
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Anyway, my Xbox is getting very dusty, and forza horizon 5 constantly stutters(I haven't encountered that issue when I first got it). I have been planning to clean it for a long time, but one day I looked at my PC's ARGB fans and thought: Why don't I fit it in the Xbox? From what I can tell from the guide, the fan inside the Xbox uses a 4-pin connector, but the socket is slightly different from what you'd expect on a PC. I have some experience in soldering, and had successively connected some severed fan cables in my PC together, so I figure it wouldn't be hard to connect the Xbox socket to a normal PC case fan. For the lighting I can just use an external controller for motherboards that don't support ARGB, and anyway some fans by Cooler Master lights up on their own without controllers anyway. [br]
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The main problem is anchoring the fan. The Xbox uses a custom fan, from what I can tell from the iFixit guide, the fan is a 130mm fan custom-made by Microsoft (with Master Chief on it), and normal fans would not fit. Can somebody tell me how to anchor a 120mm fan on the Xbox? Or, can anyone help me find a 130mm fan that comes with RGB lighting? I'm thinking about long screws that would somehow poke through the grille on the front(very convenient anchoring points), but that's just ugly. [br]
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Any help would be appreciated.
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Anyway, my Xbox is getting very dusty, and forza horizon 5 constantly stutters(I haven't encountered that issue when I first got it). I have been planning to clean it for a long time, but one day I looked at my PC's ARGB fans and thought: Why don't I fit it in the Xbox? From what I can tell from the guide, the fan inside the Xbox uses a 4-pin connector, but the socket is slightly different from what you'd expect on a PC. I have some experience in soldering, and had successively connected some severed fan cables in my PC together, so I figure it wouldn't be hard to connect the Xbox socket to a normal PC case fan. For the lighting I can just use an external controller for motherboards that don't support ARGB, and anyway some fans by Cooler Master lights up on their own without controllers anyway. [br]
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The main problem is anchoring the fan. The Xbox uses a custom fan, from what I can tell from the iFixit guide, the fan is a 130mm fan custom-made by Microsoft (with Master Chief on it), and normal fans would not fit. Can somebody tell me how to anchor a 120mm fan on the Xbox? Or, can anyone help me find a 130mm fan that comes with RGB lighting? I'm thinking about long screws that would somehow poke through the grille on the front(very convenient anchoring points), but that's just ugly. [br]
I'm a PC enthusiast, and naturally I want to fit RGB lights on every single device I own🤓 [br]
Anyway, my Xbox is getting very dusty, and forza horizon 5 constantly stutters(I haven't encountered that issue when I first got it). I have been planning to clean it for a long time, but one day I looked at my PC's ARGB fans and thought: Why don't I fit it in the Xbox? From what I can tell from the guide, the fan inside the Xbox uses a 4-pin connector, but the socket is slightly different from what you'd expect on a PC. I have some experience in soldering, and had successively connected some severed fan cables in my PC together, so I figure it wouldn't be hard to connect the Xbox socket to a normal PC case fan. For the lighting I can just use an external controller for motherboards that don't support ARGB, and anyway some fans by Cooler Master lights up on their own without controllers anyway. [br]
The main problem is anchoring the fan. The Xbox uses a custom fan, from what I can tell from the iFixit guide, the fan is a 130mm fan custom-made by Microsoft (with Master Chief on it), and normal fans would not fit. Can somebody tell me how to anchor a 120mm fan on the Xbox? Or, can anyone help me find a 130mm fan that comes with RGB lighting? I'm thinking about long screws that would somehow poke through the grille on the front(very convenient anchoring points), but that's just ugly. [br]
Any help would be appreciated.