best thing to do for an older 360 with heating problems that hasn't been openned yet(if you're not comfy with cracking it open and soldering shit in), and is past the 1 year waranty, is to sell just the system, with or without the cables, but keep the hard drive. Can get 70-80 for it, sell the power brick seperate for $50, and the wireless control you can keep, which is worth $50, etc etc. Then go buy a core for a decent deal. Maybe $250. You'd get the new HDMI, plus the new cooling. The newest 360s have more heatsinks and some even have smaller CPUs that run cooler.
They go on ebay all the time for about $75. If your buddy decides he wants to sell it, let me know, cause I'm looking to buy another 360 that's not in great shape, just for parts. Would like to tinker with some parts on my 360, but don't want to do it till i have backup parts, hehe. I've been watching them on ebay though. Let me know if he wants to go that route. Either way is cool, since there's SO damn many of them on ebay.
Once he gets his new 360, or if he decides to stay with the old one, or even get a new one, there's a few things you can do to keep it cooler, that aren't too hard.
I'll list them here in a bit.
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