Cooling compound in a xbox 360 or not?

[eminem3150]

Purchased my xbox 360 little over a month ago. I've heard all of the over heating horror stories of the 360. I was wondering if I should put some thermal compond on the GPU and CPU? Any input would be great and I could care less about voiding my warranty since it is only 90 days lmao.

[Bahama.Llama]

In Before The Move

I would imagine the overheating isn't due to lack of good thermal compound... but lack of air flow.

[JinXed]

why would you? that would void your warranty..

its not like you're OCing the thing.. if it breaks get it replaced, the warranty will cover for a year IIRC.. if I were you, I'd get an extended warranty for it.

[JinXed]

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Originally Posted by Bahama.Llama

I would imagine the overheating isn't due to lack of good thermal compound... but lack of air flow.

you imagine wrong...

[ilCacciatore]

In before... whatever.

[Bahama.Llama]

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Originally Posted by JinXed

you imagine wrong...

Really? Man... M$ sucks even more then I thought

[maxrule]

The overheating in the frist run of "some" of the 360's was caused by the people putting the heatsink on the gpu dio dnot remove the plastic protecion off the bottom of it that protects the current compound during storage. This selefane or whatever is basically making a blanket over the chip smothering it. If you have had no issues of lockups yet then you are probably fine.

[basso4735]

i thought the gpus in xbox's were soldered to the board.

[dman22]

Airflow is everything. Mine sits on the top shelf of a cabinet with plenty of airflow in an air conditioned house and the fan doesn't even run that often..

[eminem3150]

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Originally Posted by JinXed

why would you? that would void your warranty..

its not like you're OCing the thing.. if it breaks get it replaced, the warranty will cover for a year IIRC.. if I were you, I'd get an extended warranty for it.

lol yeah omg my 90 amazing warranty