Recent content by Joe Robertson

The most capable distro is T2SDE, I believe they managed to or at least got close to getting a GPU driver working and is on the almost latest kernel and can compile modern programs. Not sure about SPU utilization The easiest distro for super basic use is Red Ribbon, its slow but dead simple to...

im not a fan of begging but adding in a cell clock setting and rsx voltage setting would be a game changer and drastically lower the time and hardware investment for those looking for some performance and to shave off a few % of fan speed

Undervolt is compeltely out of reach for those who cant solder and dont have a way of interfacing with syscon

The bracer is good to prevent warping and lower temps by a degree or two but it rlly wont help with bumpgate, 90nm RSX's are for the most part doomed to never have a runtime higher than 200-300 days no matter what you do The 90nm RSX's underfill causes a tensile stress that's basically trying...

Currently there is no undervolt implementation that doesn't require soldering, delids are usually the most accessible way to lower temps when a repaste doesn't make a difference since most people don't know how to solder and have something like a raspberry pi to flash syscon, which is a shame...

Huh.. If that's the case then how come 3d homebrew is so rare? PS3 has been mostly cracked wide open since 2011-2012, is the PS3 really that difficult to develop for when it comes to 3d applications or was there just not much enthusiasm for it?

Unrelated but since ur a homebrew dev I have a question, do any of the PS3 SDK's provide access to the RSX? I'm 99% sure there's no way to use the PS3's GPU in homebrew applications but I just wanna make sure

It's an option that's had success for a lot of people, there is a solid risk of a newbie scuffing up their CELL's substrate and bricking the entire console compared to the smaller risk of cracking the CELL or warping the board. 3d printing a CELL bracer is also a good idea but wont reduce temps...

The RSX's clock speed can be altered very early on in the boot process, meaning if an applied voltage is slightly too low and causes 1701's in the XMB then lowering the clock speed in an overclock.txt file on a USB to something like 400mhz will be enough to reliably save the console and apply an...

Just asking, I'm not sure if its possible to modify values in syscon at all without a uart connection and cant really find an answer online, undervolting in software would be awesome. Maybe it's an area that hasn't been explored too thoroughly since most of the time you only interact with...

Get off of dex, it doesnt work on PSN. I had this issue a while ago when I switched to a dex kernel and shat myself thinking I got banned off of PSN

CECHH has a 65nm CELL and 90nm RSX, the RSX should be considerably hotter than the cell yet the cell has a 20 degree lead over the rsx. Its classic bad thermal paste under the ihs IMO, assuming the console never had its heatsinks unscrewed beforehand. CECHH is kind of a junk console anyways...

guessing you've made sure to format the usb's as fat32 and stuff, I had a semi similar issue once and pulling out the hard drive and boot cycling + entering recovery a bunch of times fixed it for me. Not very helpful but the PS3 failing this early on in the reinstall process is a very weird...

Duckduckgo.com/lite seems to be the fastest

My country doesnt care about individual piracy, its not 2000 so afaik very few require a VPN these days