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[DarrenR]

You could do the eraser trick, works excellently I've heard. It's got to be a good eraser though so the heat tranfers to the case.

[RDC]

If you mean the thermal pads on the RAM chips that are under the GPU heatsink there are none, they don't come from M$ that way and never have, people stick those on there themselves. If you meant the ones on the 4 RAM chips on the bottom of the board you can add them if ya want to and ya can find the thermal pads in the 360 B/S/T for sale.

Erasers aren't good thermal conductors.

[RATSTYLZ]

ok thanks rdc,will they have any effect if i do put some on?yes the ones under the gpu heatsink

[jameswalter]

QUOTE(crotchrocket904 @ May 11 2007, 05:01 AM)  

where can you buy these thermal pads? Home depot?

Not Home Depot.  The only thing found to work so far (it's what I used too) is the pads used between a hard drive and a water cooling product.  Newegg has this item, it's where I got it from.  Can't recall the name, but it was in another thread about "Cooling methods and proof that they work".

[SpiderX1016]

If theres thermal pads on the bottom, take 2 and cut them in half and put two on the GPU Ram and put the 2 back where you got them from. (You don't need any larger anyway)

[BoNg420]

QUOTE(RDC @ May 11 2007, 07:43 AM)  

If you mean the thermal pads on the RAM chips that are under the GPU heatsink there are none, they don't come from M$ that way and never have, people stick those on there themselves. If you meant the ones on the 4 RAM chips on the bottom of the board you can add them if ya want to and ya can find the thermal pads in the 360 B/S/T for sale.

Erasers aren't good thermal conductors.

they do come from MS that way.  They started putting them on last spring.  You are talking about those spongy things right?

[RDC]

QUOTE(BoNg420 @ May 11 2007, 07:18 PM)  

they do come from MS that way.  They started putting them on last spring.  You are talking about those spongy things right?

I've seen the 4 bottom RAM chips under the board that have them, my new (third one) 360 has them, but from his description it sounds like he's asking about the 2 that are under the GPU heatsink, those I haven't seen M$ do a thing with, or have they?

[nagamin]

Those pads are not clear from metal casing. They work like heat conductor between RAM chips and metal casing.
Yes, It has white thing like foam which can be change thickness it self when you apply pressure.

I didn't put it back after x-clamp was removed and applied new thermal paste. Console was still working good without it.

I don't see in falcon chip yet, only xenon manuf; late 06.

[nagamin]

So far, with my experience, I didn't see in falcon. I did not put it back after removed X-Clamp and heat treated, also nothing is apply to RAM chips, except CPU and GPU where the heat sink was sit on it.

Not only Xenon, I saw on zephyr too. Do you see on falcon?