My 360 burned up

[Unsullied_Spy]

This room is pretty good as far as dust, I've got one of those Ionic Breeze air filters and it keeps the dust down really well. I blew through all of the cooling holes and almost no dust came out (after nearly 2 years of use, that's good!) So far I have my repair manuals (and several people) telling me it's a heatsink clamp problem, and others saying the VRAM is overheating. I think I'll go ahead and get those heatsinks, they must certainly work better than the stock thermal pads right? At the same time I'll do the X-clamp removal and hopefully that will fix it.

That video recommended using the "Towel Fix" to reset it. Can I get away with using a different method? I don't anything about fixing an XBox, but I know that it will cause a massive buildup of heat that could seriously damage components.