Well-loved gaming consoles exposed in shocking x-ray portfolio
By Laura June 
posted May 2nd 2009 7:52AM
posted May 2nd 2009 7:52AM
Gamers will no doubt be interested to see that their favorite consoles -- the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Sony's Playstation 3 (just to name a few) -- are just as beautiful to behold on the inside as they are on the outside. A courageous enthusiast named Reintiji's uploaded a whole set of x-rays to Flickr, and we have to say they turned out pretty artistic. There's one more image (of the Xbox 360) after the break -- but be sure to hit the read link for the entire, captivating set.
[Via Technabob]
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Wow, this is pretty cool.
I love the coconut.
What a cool idea.
On the nunchuck: " - Yeah, that's all there's to it."
XBox has huge X's in it. Amazing.
That means it's for adults only.
they're the x-clamps on the motherboard, I think it's to do with cooling over the CPU and GPU, but I might be wrong.
Ben Heck has an entire box of them
Ya there are two x-clamps. One of which is the one causing all the heating problems. When the GPU gets hot and then cooled constantly the c-clamp then begins to warp. When it warps the sauder that holds the GPU in place loses connection with the GPU to the Motherboard, causing the red ring of death. The only way to fix it is to take it apart take x-clamp out and use four screws with nylon and spring washers and nuts. I had to do it to mine and i thought my box was done because it was outside of the warrenty, but after doing this simple procedure it now works good as new.
Yea not so amazing. They are x clamps and the reason my 360 red ringed. I took it apart and put machine screws in place of them. runs way cooler
Unfortunately, after the 'shocking' event of turning on my 360 last night and seeing three Red Rings of Death, I immediately searched it up and found out that those x-clamps really are to blame. *sigh* Guess I'm going to have to send it in for repair. I must say though, for a console that I got on Boxing day 2006, it did pretty well, lasting 2 years 4 months when comparing it to the unrevised 360's that die within 1 year. I had it in my basement which is very cold all year round. Never thought it would actually bite the dust though.
you dont have to send it into repair. You can fix it yourself. You can go here to find out how http://www.x-clamp-fix.com/
It cost 20 bucks for some screws and washers and nuts. Pretty insane for that but it works. To get it cheaper you can just find out the sizes of everything and go buy it at a hardware store which will save you a bunch of money.
Why would anyone want to void their warranty and fix it themselves when someone is doing it for free AND extending the warranty ANOTHER 3 years?
P.S I don't own an Xbox(PC Gaming FTW, getting a PS3 soon) but this is common sence
Cause we are DIYers and we love taking stuff apart. Also, I can fix it mysef with a 10 visit to my local radio shack, or do it your way and wait up to 2 weeks to ship, repair, return. Not mention having to deal with shipping cost or asking for a return label and dealing with all that mess.
By the time you got your RMA request in and information about your shipping label (so you don't have to pay postage), and got your system in the box and sent off, my X-box will be playing Assassin's Creed.
Radioshack FTW. worked there 2 year. bitches served me right
umm because most of the peoples warranties are expired because they are past the 3 year mark and its going to cost you 100 bucks to send it in now and all there going to do is send you back a refurbished xbox.
Dont know if the amount of time this guy spent with an Xray is safe!!
Xrays of nes/snes roms woah what next??????????
"Dont know if the amount of time this guy spent with an Xray is safe!!"
Are you being serious?!
Sadly, I've heard that someone is already working on x-rays of PEOPLE. It's a slippery slope...
I'm sure that if he's an x-ray tech, he's wearing a lead vest/out of the room when he makes the exposures. Most likely out of the room, since most machines have the switches ~10 feet away. >_>
He works at a university medical center in holland, it has 1000 patients on an average day and 9000 people working and every year 31000 people are admitted there.
It also has 3400 students.
So yeah I'm sure they have some basic precaution.
Good stuff!
Always interesting to see that there aren't tiny men inside like they keep telling me.
Beautiful.
@Phoenix: lol they are there to keep the heatsinks in place, they don't cool the CPU and GPU. That is what the heatsinks do.
Nice use of reply there buddy.
And if they keep the thing that cools the CPU and GPU in place, then they are TO DO WITH cooling. i never said they were what did the cooling.
and anyway, i said I wasn't sure.
..because we all know how reliable 'reply' is on engadget, right?
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=817033
I am pretty sure one of my lecturers mentioned that CMOS could be wiped when exposed to X-ray radiation i.e. the software build in that *boots* the device to its first operative address in memory is replaced. Theres a possibility that some of these consoles were bricked by the waves.
You suppose lots of devices are destroyed at airports worldwide?
Doesn't look like the x-rays used to make these pictures were any more powerful than your normal Rapiscan at your friendly local airport security.
pretty sure cmos is just a series of transistors.
eprom on the other hand is eraseable, but i believe only UV light does that.
Did they make sure the nunchuck wasn't pregnant before starting the x-ray?
Anyone else think that nunchuck looks like the Alien just after it pops out of your chest? Creepy.
"That means it's for adults only."
hahaha.. Nice One :)
I wonder who is footing the bill for these X-Rays? Aetna barely covers an this when your arm is broken!
I thought about that too. I'm guessing that this was done by a tech or a doc with a digital machine, with a fixed cost, rather than the old style with film, processor and chemicals.
and all this time, I thought a monkey and organ grinder were responsible for the noisy 360....
I feel cheated by the numchuck!
How about CT scans of toys?
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/03/25/first-ct-scan-robot
Atari 2600 PLEEEEEASE!
Way to click a link. It's the second pic...
Ouch.
That's why my wife keeps telling me that I'm an idiot...
The Atari is really kinda empty. Why did they make the case so big back in the day if that is all the circuitry in the thing.
@Laughing
Back then there was an abundance of faux-wood finish. It was a lucrative business deal between "I Can't Believe it's Not Wood" and Atari. Later there was those issues with the trade commission, but no one was every prosecuted. Rumor has it that investigators were bought off with free copies of Pitfall.
How can Nintendo charge 20$ for such little cabling and some plastic?? Beats me... and I already bought two of them!!!!
The sensors and chips used are minuscule, but that doesn't mean the price of them is, not that there isn't a nice profit made of course.
Recession Antidote : Make Gaming Consoles Translucent. It is ART for us.
Why? What did you think would be inside a nunchuck ... magic bee's, diamonds, rare stamps, nope ... controller bits and a cable out of the molded plastic shell that makes it comfortable to hold. It came to Nintendo in a dream.
Wow, cool.
I like how they spelled nunchuk wrong
check your spelling
What's wrong with my spelling?
Love it. Though I wonder if they burned any of these out -- you know, amperian loops giving rise to currents in relation to the EM flux.
I bet MSI hopes that these guys never get a hold of the X-Slim series.
what amazes me is the PS3 from a technical point of view it's rather simple. Well done Sony.
That's what I thought. Expecially when you look at the Dualshock controller to the 360 one.
What, no neGcon?
lol @ Kokosnoot! (coconut)
(monster cable sucks)
Brilliant!
This is Art.
They should make an X-Ray filter for photoshop. I really like the effect.
You can do it yourself in photoshop... but you don't really know how it looks like from the inside! An X-Ray scanner for home would be dope though!
The nunchuck reminds me of the bug from the Matrix...
I wanna see the sixaxxis next to the dual shock 3. Anyone else remember when PS3 came out and Sony said that they couldn't have rumble or it would mess with the sensitivity of the controller?