Recent content by Razmann4k

As Starship2 said, the 8th SPU was disabled to improve yields, as if Sony made 1000 CELLs and 200 of them had a dead SPU, by disabling 1 of them, they now have 1000 working chips even if they're all slightly weaker in theory. However, games were never compiled with that 8th SPE in mind...

Assuming you have a 40nm RSX, the stock SYSCON fan curve runs the GPU at around 73c most of the time, which is safe for a 40nm but not exactly a great temperature if you want your PS3 to last a really long time.

Thanks a ton for the info Shawn! I actually delidded the RSX a couple days ago and ran a hot air gun with a tiny nozzle over only the die at 150c for a couple minutes and it's been alive ever since lol Of course I expect it to die at any moment, at which point I'll commence the 40nm Frankie...

I have a CECHA that needs a new RSX, I'll try my best to get a Super Slim 40nm and see what it can do (hopefully the reflowing won't reduce its abilities)

I'd also like to know, as I bought a CECHA with a dead RSX and want to know if it will even work with a 40nm RSX before buying one. Would suck to go through the whole Frankie process only for it to not work because the console is on 2.70 or something :( So what in the Southbridge UART process...

I bought I few untested PS3s from a local shop around me, and specifically asked for ones that said CECHJ or later, low and behold one of them turned out to be and M03, I was so certain someone just swapped a CECHH into a newer shell when seeing the DIA-001 and CXD2971 RSX, and now I'm reading...

If I have the 3034 error, do you still recommend removing blu-ray drive and putting pressure on the RSX clamp to check if it's BGA? If I kill the chip even more, it's not the end of the world since it's already giving me 3034, but I'd rather not do it until you confirm this is still something...

If I have the 3034 error, do you still recommend removing blu-ray drive and putting pressure on the RSX clamp to check if it's BGA? If I kill the chip even more, it's not the end of the world since it's already giving me 3034, but I'd rather not do it until you confirm this is still something...

Great, so most people can get like 90% of the FPS boost from overclocking without having a Are you talking about the syscon error codes?

UPDATE: I read the syscon on the CECHA12 I mentioned in my previous post: =================================== ERR 00: 00000000 A0022110 2E0467C1 ERR 01: 00000000 A0022110 2AB733B6 ERR 02: 00000000 A0022110 284671C6 ERR 03: 00000000 A0022110 26F4B728 ERR 04: 00000000 A0022110 21C296FF ERR 05...

Believe it or not Felix, since speaking to you last I'm now in possession of a CECHA! It's a CECHA12, a Hong Kong region one which is basically identical to the Japanese revision. It has YLOD but I haven't read the syscon just yet. A game shop near me had this CECHA buried among the CECHC's and...

True, let me qualify that statement: a CECHC/E is really my only choice for a BC PS3 that won't cost more than a brand new PS5 to own! Seriously, I checked and shipping will cost the same as the unit itself, and our customs are horrible unfortunately, some of my packages mysteriously disappeared...

Thank you for the confirmation, as a South African a CECHC/E is really my only choice for a BC PS3 since we get whatever Europe got.

900 is still great for a BC PS3, and like you said there may be some ancient NEC TOKINS in there that could be causing the issue. BTW, a little off topic but would you say that a CECHE is valuable to Frankenstein them and sell them off? I know they don't have EE+GS, only GS and EE is emulated...

Hypothetically, the GPU itself should have no issues at 1.240v assuming it's being powered with appropriate VRMs and filtering, right? Another forum member noted that the Curie architecture had plenty of cards run at 1.4V, so I'm assuming the Core is designed with that kind of voltage in mind?