No heat paste

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When has heat been THE issue in past consoles?

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Um, ask anyone who's suffered from a bricked Xbox 360 console due to the heating issues with the 3 red lights of death...

@Miss Ermine, did that and still nothing. But I think i might have found a design flaw in the cooling system. two of the ram chips sit right under the heat sink and get get heat soaked, and this xbox had little to no thermal past on the heat sink, so I put
new thermal paste on the the heat sink and removed the fans outer cover and it runs a little better but not much. other then that there are no changes. Just Thought I would tell you all the this system is designed just like the last one. So my guess is that
it is going to be just as problematic as the last generation of 360's.

I did find the solution. After just being fed up and dismantling it for fun I came across the real issue. After removing the copper plate on the CPU the thermal paste was dried and just dust and stones transferring no heat at all. The reason I couldn't
figure it out before is because the heat sensor is foolishly location on the fan. The heat never made it that far so the console never knew. After following some videos on thermal paste replacement my system now runs better then when I first got it. Xbox wanted
$350 to repair it when I was able to do it for free having the tools and paste already, a no more then $20 set. So check your thermal paste, there's lots of video guides on it. Huge life saver

This sounds like a heat issue. If all else fails open it up and use a can of compressed air to clean out any dust bunnies. You might also do well to remove the heat sink clean it and apply new thermal paste.

Not sure dust would be an issue here, as it is brand new. Plus you shouldn't really be opening it up to replace heat paste, that would void the warranty, for starters.