Xbox Modification

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It took about a day to make the modification without any experience in this field. I bought the Xbox from 12 year old boy from finn.no, I got it for 500 NOK.

After the chip was installed I had to install software so the Xbox is able to accept media files like music and video. With XBox Media Center (XBMC) I got exactly what I was looking for. An excellent media center who plays: DVD, divx, xvid, mp3, and many other formats.

Disconnect HD	Modchip in place	Modchip and components in place	Xbox overview
Messy table after Xbox autopsy	Modchip before modding	Modchip soldering	Modpoint
Finding the version from the serial number	Double check of version by checking 0 voltage between 2 points

[edit] Specification

The Specs for the Xbox are:

CPU: 733 MHz Mobile Celeron (Pentium III Coppermine-based IA-32 CPU) Micro-PGA2 package. 180 nm process.
SSE. Floating point SIMD. 4 single-precision floating point numbers per clock cycle.
Resulting Gflops on cpu alone: 2.9Gflops
MMX. Integer SIMD.
133 MHz 64-bit GTL+ front side bus to GPU/chipset.
32 KiB L1 cache. 128 KiB on-die L2 Advanced Transfer Cache (256-bit bus).
Shared memory subsystem
 
64 MiB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz. 6.4 GB/s
Supplied by Hynix or Samsung depending on manufacture date and location.
Graphics processing unit (GPU) and system chipset: 233 MHz NV2A ASIC. Co-developed by Microsoft and NVIDIA.
4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
932 megapixels/second (233 MHz x 4 pipelines), 1,864 megatexels/second (932 MP x 2 texture units) (peak)
115 million vertices/second, 125 million particles/second (peak)
Peak triangle performance: 29,125,000 32 pixel triangles/sec raw or w. 2 textures and lit.
485,416 triangles a frame at 60fps
970,833 triangles a frame at 30fps
4 textures per pass, texture compression, full scene anti-aliasing (NV Quincunx, supersampling, multisampling)
Bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic texture filtering
Similar to the NV20 and NV25 PC GPUs.
Storage media
2-5x (2.6 MB/s-6.6 MB/s) CAV DVD-ROM
8 or 10 GB 3.5-inch 5,400 RPM hard disk. Formatted to 8 GB. FATX file system.
Optional 8 MB memory card for saved game file transfer.
Audio processor : NVIDIA MCPX (a.k.a. SoundStorm NVAPU)
64 3D channels (up to 256 stereo voices)
HRTF Sensaura 3D enhancement
MIDI DLS2 Support
Monaural, Stereo, Dolby Surround, and Dolby Digital Live 5.1 audio output options
Integrated 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet
DVD movie playback
A/V outputs: composite video, S-Video, component video, SCART, Optical Digital TOSLINK, and stereo RCA analog audio.
Resolutions: 480i, 576i, 480p, 720p and 1080i.
Controller Ports: 4 proprietary USB ports
Weight: 3.86 kg (8.5 lb)
Dimensions: 320 × 100 × 260 mm (12.5 × 4 × 10.5 in)