Yup the xbox is recovering from three red ring of death and it looked a bit sad. Flames make everything go faster… Its a scientific fact. Fixing my xbox rrod and slapping a bit more awesome on for go measure. I took the heatsinks off the motherboard, cleaned the old crusty gunk off the cpu, and gpu, put Arctic silver paste on it. replaced the x clamps with screws and washers. A couple of tips. Wd40 cleans the old paste off like a dream. Hands down the best option for removing the old paste. I tried acetone and isoprople alcohol. Acetone is pretty caustic, and the alcohol took way too long. go slowly and follow your guide of choice. Take notes and keep a clean work surface. If your guide suggests you drill the heat sinks, bake the xbox in An oven or anything else crazy… Get a new guide. I used this guide to take the Xbox apart And I used a bunch of other guides to explain the rest but it’s simple. Clean the old crap off and put wonderful new crap on. To replace the X clamps you will need 8 M5 .80 x 10 mm […]