Spanish modder finds creative way to cool his Xbox 360

A poster at a Spanish modding forum called “El otro lado” has gutted his Xbox 360 console in an effort to prevent the dreaded Three Lights of Death, or The Red Ring of Death (RROD) as others know it.

In case you haven’t heard of this phenomenon, it basically is a harbinger of doom for any Xbox 360 console. Three red lights appear forming a ring around the console’s power button informing you of its demise. Some people say it happens when some components melt inside the Xbox. Others say it’s just that the processor overheats. Many versions have circulated the web but the main point is that these failures have been so common that Xbox owners have developed any number of fixes for the problem. Recently a boy got electrocuted while submerging his console’s power brick in water in an effort to cool it down and keep on playing.

What this modder did was cut one side of the console open and attach two huge PC fans to the motherboard just over…