do you have patience and a lot of thermal paste? if so, you can just fix it yourself. you're gonna have to reapply the thermal paste on like nine different die to do it right. otherwise, i say flip it for what it's worth and get a slim.
as for southtown, that shit is fucking FAR son. and expensive to get to. it's gonna be some time before i can make my way up there because it's $20 just to get there and back, let alone however much i'd end up spending on games and food and some premium coke from the chinese mob. if i can get a ride though, now we're talkin. then i might even enter cvs2 for shits and giggles.