Xbox 360 Performance tweak - Thermal Paste Upgrade

Xbox 360 Performance tweak - Thermal Paste Upgrade...

From the guy who bought you the towel trick comes a new way to solve the problem of your games freezing up, a not very responsive dashboard and general performance problems after a few hours of gameplay.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Xbox
• 360
• Performance
• Tweak
• Fix
• RROD
• Red
• Ring
• Of
• Death
• Wizen
• Wolf
• Bain
• Live
• Game
• Freezing
• Jittering
• Lagging
• Thermal
• Paste
• XClamp
• Apart

[leo161978]

I can't seem to find where to get the akasa heat spreaders for the other chips. I checked on ebay, but they weren't there.

[bassdemon16]

you want to look for "Akasa VGA RAM Sink"... The model i have is the Akasa AK-VMC01-BK

[immortalassassin117]

and i also heard that peanut butter and tooth paste can be used as thermal conpound?

if so wich one would be better cous honestly im not really planing on puting toothpaste on my 360's gpu lol

but if it works DO tell me!

[bassdemon16]

When it comes to thermal paste, you should always buy the best, preferably with silver in it (hence the price).

If you look on Ebay, tigerdirect ect, you can pick up some arctic silver for as little as $7... If you aren't gonna buy the good stuff, there's no point doing this because you wont see an improvement over the current thermal paste on there.

[immortalassassin117]

i know how much they cost and witch one to get but thats not what i asked....

[bassdemon16]

Simple answer, don't put anything but proper thermal paste on it.

[robthatguyx]

ah yes i mod xboxs alot, better heatsinks and such higgher airflow all that jazz but this would be one of the most effective ways

[pchcsheridan]

Remember to ALWAYS reburnish your heatsinks if you clean off the old paste. Take 1000 grit sandpaper from the autostore, and sand the heatsink aread that contacts the paste. Then polish this area with a metal polish safe for Aluminum or copper, we use MAAS. Then clean again with 90%+ rubbing or denatured alcohol. THEN apply your new paste.

DO NOT burnish the cpu or other chips, just clean very well with the alcohol.

[WinVistaUser2]

Dear sir, I replaced the thermal grease and blew the dust out of the fans on the Xbox 360 and the fans spun faster, but the fans are back to normal. Do you recommend everyone to place his/her Xbox 360 in front of a regular room fan (at least 6 inches high) to cool down the system's heat sinks so that the thermal grease can stay intact and to control the fan speed? And I'm guessing the GPU is the small processor that's above the Processor on the left side? Great tutorial.

[nicolaiaquilina]

Hey can any one help me please !

I bought a thermal compound ZP-360

and it looks different from other thermal paste that i bought one month ago

is this ZP-360 safe to my xbox ?

please Help

thank you :))

[CrazySourcePlayer]

i can't seem to get off the x-clamps...

[sesestro]

Us version of xbox 360 slim sucks it overheats! but the xbox 360 asian version rocks cause from the morning until midnight it's still working playing best graphics gears of war 2 and halo reach so buy the asian version it last long and better.

[RaVzdepoop]

This does fix the red ring of death but partially, if u want to fix it completely u hve to take out the nub xclamps... Go and search Xclamp fix on how to do it!! Thumbs up if tis helped u!!!

[Kevinkoch2443]

it´s really good to change the thermal paste cause microsoft just use some shit paste! ----> use Arctic Silver 5 !!!!

[Circumventorable]

Thats some real effort you put into those videos.

[jja2k8]

will this fix red ring of death??please help me my 360 has 3 ring of death