May only be a temporary fix.
At the very least, I'm assuming you used a better TIM like AS5 than the factory paste, which should drop load temps by a few degrees at minimum.
If my refurb 60GB unit dies, I'm not sending it back to SCE for repair again, so I'd either reflow the logic board myself or just recycle it for parts.
Fortunately, it currently sees about as much use as my Xbox 360, which is to say very little, since the 40GB replacement w/ 500GB HDD I bought a year ago has become my main console. And as use drops to zero, the odds of failure coincidentally also drops to zero.
I've pretty much stopped playing any PS2 games anyway and would just as soon wait for re-releases tweaked for the PS3 (like GoW collection, and hopefully ICO collection and MGS collection).
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