Recent content by ryeno

I haven't bought the unit. I'm cooking for early 2011 25xx units to overclock and I don't know if the SS units can run CFW.

Does anyone know which FW was shipped on these units.

Based on what I've read in this thread and my own experience I would say the min stable freq for a 25xx should be 650/850. Anything above 700/900 is good. 25xx Bad Bin: 650/850 Average Bin: 700/900 Good Bin: 750+/950+ CXD5300A1GB in my Dec 2010.

you can dump the string and look at the text. https://www.psx-place.com/threads/project-rsx-boost-overclock-your-retail-ps3-rsx-speeds-ps3-cfw-only.36801/page-79#post-389047

Look for a dec 2010 or jan 2011. But honestly it doesn't matter that much because most 2501 can hit 700/900 and that's all you need. If you cap and volt mod then you can probably get an extra 100mhz on core without unreasonable voltages.

you could try to calculate the vid from the checksum or probe the vrm but this is pointless because there is no reason to run the GPU below 1v. Set the voltage to 1.1v, find your max stable OC, then reduce the voltage to lower heat and fan noise. I think most folks would end up running between...

I bought a 2000 heatsink. It doesn't fit on the 2500. There are 2 different spacings: the heatsink to the metal chassis and the heatsink to the motherboard. These 2 spacings are offset on the 2500 compared to the 2000 so the heatsink doesn't fit. I'd be pretty hard to try and retrofit it. I'd...

Did you measure the capacitance of the original caps?

Could you make a 800/925 profile please? FATAL ERROR: patchtool.exe failed to execute! : couldn't execute "patchtool.exe": invalid argument FATAL ERROR: Unable to patch self lv1.self.elf : patchtool.exe failed to execute! : couldn't execute "patchtool.exe": invalid argument *****************...

I finished overclocking my 2 consoles. rsx40 a01 700/925 vpe:ff shd:3f [NN6051-11:0:4:b:15:4:6:0:1][25:0:e:0:1:0:1][1:1:0] 179d 01:35:38 • 2,930 ON • 2,894 OFF (36) 700MHz @ stock voltage 750MHz @ stock voltage & cap mod. 800MHz @ 1.056v 925MHz VRAM 950MHz VRAM was game stable but resulted in...

Are you still using this config file? I get visual errors when I try using e_ShadowsMaxTexRes=1024 The rain on the floor becomes corrupted I'm using ; crysis3 sys_game_folder=c3 sys_localization_folder=localization release_install=1 sys_languages=english,french,spanish g_language=english...

Remove the 7 factory polycaps and replace them with new poly caps and check the ripple. I guarantee you that you wouldn't see any improvement because the problem is low total capacitance.

Again, you're overcomplicating this. 1) We want to reduce low frequency ripple. The only way to reduce low frequency ripple is to add more capacitance. The purpose of bulk capacitance in the vrm circuit is to remove the low frequency ripple caused by the switching. 2) Adding more capacitors will...

I think you're overcomplicating this. Based on your scope measurements, the 2500 series VRM has low frequency ripple. There was a little bit of high frequency noise but not too much so the MLCC were doing their job well enough...

Adding capacitance is what reduces low frequency ripple. A degraded cap would be a capacitor with low capacitance and lower capacitance means more low frequency ripple. So if you want to reduce the low frequency ripple then you must increase the total capacitance. In the 2500 series, I don't...