Xbox Spa-day.

[tp4tissue]

Alot of young noobrs throw out the original fan and HDD.

Bah-humbug says Tp4, an older m0ar-speranced xbrrer.

Your xbrrx is LESS ORIGINAL, if you throw out the OG Fan.

These are ball bearing fans, the reasons they get grindy is cuz the dust buildup eventually gunks up the races.

EASY-fix, infinite life virtually, in an xbox, very low lifetime RPM.


Pop them out of the chamber with a dental pick. Don't pry too hard or one can damage the housing. They're just friction fit in there.



Put into small contact lens cupper, pour in alcohol, Commence the shakes.  Rinse and repeat a few times.



Supr Clean clean clean.. BEHOLD, Perfection!!   

Add grease,  reassemble.



Tp4 previously used Gelid Extreme on CPU, BAD IDEA. Horrific pump out situation, this would kill your CPU after a while.

You can see the edges have absolutely no paste. Completely dry. These are pentium 3 arch, they can take a beating, but alot of xboxes die nowadays because people use generic thin pastes.

Switching to PTM7950.  This is the ideal paste for the Bare Dies, because the block is too smooth, pump out inevitable.





Do not use PTM for the GPU, The GPU isn't hot enough to get the ptm thin, it would take a very very long time,  use regular paste for GPU. 

GPU is a more classic design with a carbon sleeve around the center IHS, not bare die. Paste will be fine here. The sleeve is designed to keep more paste towards the center and slow pump out.  This design is fine for low overall wattage chips.