RGH Falcon high EDRAM temperature

[JerryAnyz]

Hi, last week I received my falcon with installed RGH. Everything seem to be fine but when I was working in FSD, XeX etc. but when I play games (XBLA or X360 games) it freezes a lot mostly during loading but sometimes even during playing. I tried setting fan speed to 70% and to 100% but it kept freezing (not so much as on auto). CPU, GPU a MB temperatures seems fine (max 60°C, MB 35°C) but EDRAM is high (over 70°C in FSD on auto and over 60°C on 100% fan speed).

Could you please give me any tip how to lower EDRAM? Thanks

 

[GSIBOY]

Remove the old thermal paste and add new paste, Since i think the connection is bad between the heatsink and chip

 

[JayDee]

Remove the old thermal paste and add new paste, Since i think the connection is bad between the heatsink and chip

He is asking about the ram chips, not the CPU or GPU! :rolleyes2:


JerryAnyz: Do the ram chips have heatpads/thermal pads on them? If not, fit some, and see what temps you get...

 

[Ticallion]

Fit thermal pads on the underside of the motherboard and apply some thermal paste on the top which then makes contact with the GPU heatsink.

 

[DaRkO]

I've found falcons to be quite troublesome with Ram, I think its partly because M$ for whatever reason decided to stop putting thermal pads on the under side of the boards, and the top side ram gets cooked with excessive heat from the GPU, but if you keep the console running cool, you'll keep the ram cooler too.

In the last couple of weeks I have repaired 7 Falcons all with 3RROD 0110 (eg Cold Joint / Poor connection between ram and M/B)

I'm seeing more and more of them with this problem, and I've only ever had 2 other consoles even show it, 1 Xenon and 1 Zephyr.

Sooooo long story short, keep it cool as you can, and DO NOT add thermal pads/coins or anything for that matter, between the GPU heatsink and the ram on the top side, heaps of people do this without realising all thats happening is the GPU heat is being transferred to the RAM!

If your really paranoid, put thermal pads on the under side and buy some ram heatsinks like this or similar on the two exposed ram chips on the top side

 

[mik30]

He is asking about the ram chips, not the CPU or GPU! :rolleyes2:

The OP was asking about EDRAM not RAM.
The EDRAM is on the GPU-Chip and therefor
uses the GPU-Heatsink so that the hint to
rfresh thermal paste under the GPU-Heat-Sink
is correct.

P.S:
Normally the EDRAM is about 5° above GPU temp.

 

[GSIBOY]

He is asking about the ram chips, not the CPU or GPU! :rolleyes2:


JerryAnyz: Do the ram chips have heatpads/thermal pads on them? If not, fit some, and see what temps you get...

Do some research the EDRam is on the GPU and not an actual Ram chip. Completely different:facepalm:

What thermal paste did you replace it with?