So recently I've been getting into playing some console games of which I had some of the games on console.

While I have a gaming PC there's something nice about playing casual games easily on the TV.
I started playing one on my XBOX 360 and noticed one thing that was really bugging me, it's really noisy! I mean the noise from this was extremely loud. I found out (as I rarely ever use my 360) this noise was actually not just the fan inside the console to blame but there's also a fan in the power supply.

As I was wanting to do a Mini ITX build anyway (originally planning to be a computer to have in the car) I wanted to build a small system to play games on instead.

At the same time I found an old spares and repairs original XBOX  which seemed to be the ideal size.

So the goal:

To create a small "gaming" pc capable of playing some basic console games at 720p (which is upscaled on the pc to 1080p) and of similar quality to an XBOX 360 / PS3.