As great a gaming console as the Xbox 360 is, there’s a reason that for any game available on the PS3 as well, that’s the version I’ll be using: the PlayStation doesn’t sound like a wind tunnel every time I ask it to perform even the simplest of tasks. And don’t even get me started on that DVD drive. Those fans whir merrily away inside the Xbox 360 with good reason, though. Lest we forget, Microsoft’s console is rather prone to getting just a little hot. The failure rate, courtesy the red ring of death, doesn’t inspire much confidence in the Xbox 360.
Lian Li offered those willing to crack open their Xbox 360 a possible solution to the console’s tendency to overheat, in the form of the PC-XB01 case. However, transposing the Xbox 360 from one case to the other to avert its overheating problems introduces a potential hitch of its own: voiding the warranty. Bearing in mind Microsoft is offering free replacement of any console succumbing to the RROD (within three years of manufacture) so trying to avert a failure seems ironically counterintuitive. Quiet PC thinks there’s one another reason you might want an XB01 case though. Transposing the guts of an Xbox 360 to a roomier case affords the opportunity to adorn it with some much needed noise-reducing cladding.
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