backwardscompatible

Hi all, Now I am familiar with a lot of threads on this forum trying to explain why the 90nm rsx / Cell BE failed in the early models (and even in the later ones). (Thank you RIP felix :)) One reason that keeps on popping up is "thermal cycling" , it is even mentionned a couple of times on...

On psdevwiki.com the date codes for the various backwards compatible playstation 3 consoles are documented. Now I recently found out that they are not quite correct, at least for the CECHC consoles. I recently purchased a CECHC04 with datecode 8B, until I modified it on psdevwiki it was not...

A couple of weeks ago I tried to jaibreak my near mint newly acquired backwardscompatible PS3 Phat Console with the dreaded russian BG Toolset.. at the time I didn‘t even know of the fake toolset and didnt think too much of it when it said fw 4.88 instead of 4.89 Long story short, it is bricked...