SK360
February 15, 2008, 11:30am
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The problem isn’t the stress from the clamps it’s the solder joints being shitty cold solder joints, they don’t so much crack as they just were not good to begin with. They also added thermal transfer pads to the bottom of the memory units and the 2 under the GPU heat sink, which I always add when I fix them.
What pisses me off is when some idiot goes and does the xclamp fix mod then lets it overheat to reset solder joints but they pulled the heat sink so tight against the board it warps it and the diods and resisters pop off. The x clamps work perfectly fine if the solder connections are set properly.
One of mine I have added talismoon fans that run at 12v and the thermal probe still registers 112 degrees when playing a game on the CPU. The one I added a 60mm fan to the top of the case right in front of the CPU does a better job of cooling the xbox with that one fan than the 2 60mm with the tunnel. These things are very poorly designed when it comes to heat removal.
I’ve got 7 of them at my house right now I paid no more than 60 bux for them.
I have replaced quite a few X-Clamps for friends and have never had an issues with Diodes or Resistors popping off, and all the boxes are still running strong.
Nor have i heard anything about diodes or resistors popping off on the xbox-scene forums.