Cooler King add-on does it all

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Cooler King add-on does it all

Posted Jan 28th 2007 1:45PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Peripherals

Okay, to be honest we're not big fans of that Nyko Cooler device, so when news of the Cooler King came across our news desk we were a little bored by the whole idea. But then we realized that the Cooler King does much more than its Nyko cousin, much more. Not only does it have a fan to unnecessarily remove built up heat in your 360, but it also has a bunch of video and audio inputs. Since it plugs directly into the special 360 video plug, you can now use any standard composite, component, s-video, vga or optical audio plug. And as a bonus gift they throw in four extra USB 2.0 ports on the device. You can buy it from UK Play.com for the low price of £17.99.

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Tags: cooler king, CoolerKing, nyko, nyko cooler, NykoCooler, peripherals

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1. nice, could always use extra USB ports, but hopefully the quality of the product is good overall.

Posted at 1:59PM on Jan 28th 2007 by Xanto

2. yea I have a few questions

1.) Does this work on American/NTSC 360s?
2.) How do you switch between the video ports? Because sometimes I use VGA, and sometimes I use the RCA plugs, right now I just unplug the video slot and plug the other one in, but it'd be nice to just change a switch (or does this display it in 2 different places at once? that'd be pretty cool as well)

Posted at 2:23PM on Jan 28th 2007 by soccerdude21490

3. Yep, had this for ages, far quieter than the Nykko product and allows me to use my standard VGA cable than the expensive offical one.

It should work on NTSC machines, and yes you can plug in all the connections at once. there's two switches on the back that seems to switch between video output and use of the ethernet/usb ports.

Posted at 2:25PM on Jan 28th 2007 by james frazer

4. I bought the Nyco Cooler when it first came out, we can all agree that it sucks big time. I'm not sure if this so called Cooler King is going to be much better. Does anyone recommend another type of cooler for the Xbox 360?

Posted at 2:32PM on Jan 28th 2007 by Kevin

5. uh how does this work exactly? it goes over most the back of the 360 except doesnt go into the power. sooooo how do the fans get power?

Posted at 3:14PM on Jan 28th 2007 by jdub

6. i would guess that it's powered from the USB port on the back, or powered seperately

Posted at 3:20PM on Jan 28th 2007 by Mr Adidas

7. its powered through the a/v somehow

Posted at 7:15PM on Jan 28th 2007 by Dave Michaels

8. Anyone that sells this stateside?

Posted at 8:09PM on Jan 28th 2007 by Crazed Geek

9. Does the Cooler king fix alot of the issues with the 1st cooler. I just heard it screws up the 360?

Posted at 9:05PM on Jan 28th 2007 by david

10. I guess if you have a wireless adaptor then you can't use this right?

Posted at 2:51AM on Jan 29th 2007 by BlueJack

11. Question: Since when was $35 USD a "low price?"

Posted at 4:35AM on Jan 29th 2007 by Ken Edwards

12. To Ken:
$35 is a small amount if it keeps your 360 from frying.

Posted at 8:28AM on Jan 29th 2007 by hmd13

13. @ 11....$35 has been a small price since I got my 1st job over 10 years ago.

Posted at 9:38AM on Jan 29th 2007 by Edwin DeJesus

14. Too bad it doesn't have HDMI.

Posted at 11:24AM on Jan 29th 2007 by Scott Krueger

15. If they released a version W/O the coolers part I definetelly would get one.

I had an intercooler and it ALMOST fucked up my 360.

Posted at 12:59PM on Jan 29th 2007 by T Ghost

16. Does the wireless adapter plug into it as well?

Posted at 1:09PM on Jan 29th 2007 by VIlhelm

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