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> Motherboard Flexing?, A result of X-clamp replacement?
AnotherOneGone
post Oct 2 2007, 12:28 PM
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After doing a bunch of mods to a 360 of mine I have noticed the motherboard edge/area right in front of the fans is flexed/warped. Not to a severe degree, but enough to notice.

I did an x-clamp replacement, 3 washers below, 2 washers above (for GPU), and I never overheated the board. I also hand-tightened the bolts, so nothing is overtight as far as I can tell.

Does anyone else know something about this? ie. is this flex a normal thing, or did I tighten something too much.
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post Oct 2 2007, 12:47 PM
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The flexing and warping is caused by the x-clamps when the console was stock I believe. You may have prevented yours from breaking by the replacement when you did.
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post Oct 3 2007, 11:34 AM
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Well the xclamp replacement can also flex the board a little bit if you really do over tighten the bolts like there's no tomorrow. You're still going to get more flex from the x-clamp and it's in a worse place (directly under the chips). Could this design have been any dumber on M$'s part? I doubt it... Having bypassed the stupid x-clamp, and perhaps using a more efficient method or even just a more effective heatsink for the gpu, they probably would have avoided more than 95% of the red ring problems. Oh well, live and learn (not to cut corners tongue.gif ).
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