Originally posted by SDF_GR:

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Compared to my frineds ps3's and from what i have reed on the net, yeap it lasted long enough. but it eventually died.

I have already figured out how i will do it, (at least in theory lol)
I have an old PC PSU (fortunately is black) i will remove the internals and place the internals from the PS3's PSU plus a 5v charger from a mobile phone for the fan (5v Fan is enough to do the job and it wont make noise either)

I will mod a female and a male electrical plug to connect the 12v from PSU to PS3 and just extend the 5v cables and the grounds.
The electrical plugs in my country looks like this
http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/236024/776.../POWER_PLUG.jpg
that is why (i hope) it will feat, cause as far as i can think of now the only problem is the space between the 2 metal parts and that can be fixed.

I wanted to place a fan were the PSU is now but the idiots that designed the PS3 have made holes to the side of the BD-Drive
and not to the side that the PSU and the HDD is.

If you remove the HDD cover and you put your hand you can feel that air comes out from there also....but no, no left side holes they cost too much.

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Originally posted by ntemis:

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Originally posted by J_Mora:

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What if u were to replace the thermal paste on a ps3 that still hasnt gotten the ylod. Or change the paste every certain time period. Would that prevent the ylod?hmmm.... I wonder. What do u guys think?lmk.

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Hi, i think should prevent it but you have to put it away in the summer and power it on afterwards.
A friend of mine openned it up after 1st year, put artic silver 5 thin layer ;) close it, cure time in dash for a week and all the stuff, played only for 1 hour after that for a long time, checked the fan speeds, updated firmware only through usb never from wifi.
Now re-open it and used Tuniq TX4 thin layer also, this time he used a washer on every screw to push more the heatsink onto chips because the f..ing heatsing is not falling onto the cpu/gpu is falling against it on the back case. Still Ps3 going strong and it is a 60GB first edition 2007 model. When is hammered for long time playing always is with air condition onto 25 Celsius. He is on 3.15 and has UBUNTU 10.04 on it and using it as a pc with mouse and keyboard and never has failed on him, only some game freezes on Uncharted 1 and uncharted 2 but that where game specific freezes and not overheating because GOW 3, MGS 4 ,R&C tools of destruction, infamous , Ninja gaiden Sigma and NG sigma 2, Resistannce fall of man etc never froze the system on him, only uncharted games did one time each.
So yes replacing the thermal paste with a quality one will give you a good working system for a looong time but you have to stay away from summer mid-day playing or you ask for it :)

Originally posted by ntemis:

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Originally posted by J_Mora:

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What if u were to replace the thermal paste on a ps3 that still hasnt gotten the ylod. Or change the paste every certain time period. Would that prevent the ylod?hmmm.... I wonder. What do u guys think?lmk.

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Hi, i think should prevent it but you have to put it away in the summer and power it on afterwards.
A friend of mine openned it up after 1st year, put artic silver 5 thin layer ;) close it, cure time in dash for a week and all the stuff, played only for 1 hour after that for a long time, checked the fan speeds, updated firmware only through usb never from wifi.
Now re-open it and used Tuniq TX4 thin layer also, this time he used a washer on every screw to push more the heatsink onto chips because the f..ing heatsing is not falling onto the cpu/gpu is falling against it on the back case. Still Ps3 going strong and it is a 60GB first edition 2007 model. When is hammered for long time playing always is with air condition onto 25 Celsius. He is on 3.15 and has UBUNTU 10.04 on it and using it as a pc with mouse and keyboard and never has failed on him, only some game freezes on Uncharted 1 and uncharted 2 but that where game specific freezes and not overheating because GOW 3, MGS 4 ,R&C tools of destruction, infamous , Ninja gaiden Sigma and NG sigma 2, Resistannce fall of man etc never froze the system on him, only uncharted games did one time each.
So yes replacing the thermal paste with a quality one will give you a good working system for a looong time but you have to stay away from summer mid-day playing or you ask for it :)

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Originally posted by danuk76:

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hacking the ps3 with jailbreak has arrived, yeah baby, sony ripped me now I will rip them, every loser wins

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Originally posted by coxwain:

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It costa approx $190-200 to get sony to repair in canada, I would prefer a cheaper way to do it but have no idea what that cheaper way would be

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Originally posted by Speedy_:

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My replacement PS3 was 9 months old when it failed, I'd fiddled inside around inside it and they still gave me another PS3. They didn't discover the warranty sticker had been fiddled with until after the exchange LOL. They haven't said anything yet! :D

Gilksy - is that really you drunk in the video lol?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S5aNagztEc&feature=related

Looking forward to the re-ball guide! ;)

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Originally posted by onehanded:

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Is that what ur momma told you lol:)

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Originally posted by bigo93:

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Hmm after reading a few of these posts im kindda worried.

I bought a launch PS3 (EU version) from a guy around 5 months ago, he was selling as faulty. warranty sticker was still in place so I guessed it was the cpu/gpu problem. So bought some Antec Formual 5 Siler thermal compound, I read its almost identical to arctic's.

Anyway the reflux fixed it, and not had time to test it much, but the last week I have been playing MAG for at least 4 hours a day. Everything seems fine, though the fan does run a bit as teh console still gets hot whilst playing, but as soon as I stop playing and goto xmb, the fan goes to its lower setting.


So question shoudl I keep the PS3 or sell it? I got it due to it having the PS2 backward compatibility. But now with psjailbreak maybe someone will create an emulator. So should I sell it an get a slim in the hopes of an emulator, or keep this launch console and hope it doesnt ylod again?

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Originally posted by onehanded:

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Originally posted by coxwain:

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It costa approx $190-200 to get sony to repair in canada, I would prefer a cheaper way to do it but have no idea what that cheaper way would be

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Everyone on here should do the heat gun trick to reflow the board and reapply the paste.
Put everything back until you get to putting the power supply back in place.
Before you sit the power supply back into position,try putting some rubber pads underneath the power pack.
Abit like the ones you get for the feet on the old xbox.
Put them on all 4 corners,the put you power supply back into place along with the rest of the console.
I found that the console does not get as hot,as the power supply has a little bit of space to breathe.I am sure the the heat of the power supply contributes to the ylod.
Fixed lots using this method as I had them ylod-ing again

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Originally posted by WallyHale:

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Mine lived it's life on it's side (standing up) and YLOD .. but never had fan go above stage 2 in that time too ..

Funny if they were ALL units on their side, and that's all it REALLY is :P

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