Anyone here re-apply thermal paste to Xbox One X??

Zico · 7 Aug 2019 at 16:15

Bit of a bump.

Put in an order for some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut High Performance Thermal Paste as I'm going to attempt to swap my Scorpio's paste. This hasn't really concerned me before but last night play BFV the box got a lot louder than I had heard it before. Being a few years older now it's got to be worth a go at changing the paste now.

MOOGLEYS · 7 Aug 2019 at 21:46

I replaced the paste on mine and swapped the hard drive for an SSD about 6 months ago. Cannot say it’s any quieter as tbh it was fairly quite before. My stock paste looked ok and was not spread everywhere like those shown above. I think it’s luck if you get a well put together one.

I replaced the paste on my PS4 pro and that’s still really loud....

Zico · 7 Aug 2019 at 22:30

To be honest, most of the time my Scorpio is pretty quiet and I haven't noticed it at all (regardless of which game I've played). The only time I genuinely remember it sounding loud was when BFV first came out and I had a long session though the night. It's now sounding a little lounder in other games now and maybe the BFV session the other night has highlighted it further.

The only thing that is worrying me now is that I only spotted this thread about TG paste scratching cpu/coolers after OcUK shipped my order today https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/kryonaut-abrasive.18827970/page-6

On the subject of fitting an SSD, I'm thinking about getting a 1TB SSD and using it externally for the few games that I would regularly play, leaving the internal one as is.

Zico · 10 Aug 2019 at 23:18

Paste replaced with the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and it appears to have worked a treat. The existing paste was dry but did appear to have a good coverage over the die. Used some WD specialist contact cleaner and some cotton pads to clean off the old paste. Putting the Kryonaut on was a bit of a faff. It did appear to be fluid enough when I put some on at first but when trying to spread it out it seemed to have a slight gummy consistency and would spread partly but leave some gaps. Added a tiny bit more paste and gradually managed to get a good spread across the whole die.

Ran the Xbox on the dashboard for about 5 minutes to allow things to warm up, then fired up Forza Horizon 4 for 30min's before moving onto Battlefield V for a couple of hours. Sitting within 1m of the Xbox and the noise was dramatically lower than before.