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amirtondari

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Hey Guys i think i need a little help here making a decision about maintaining my ps3
here's the story
I've got a little nostalgic yesterday when i saw my ps3 slim in my basement on a shelf collecting dust so i decided to plug it into my tv and play some old games, about 15 min or so i checked the temps while playing original uncharted, well it was hot 75 on cell and 81 on rsx (syscon setting 30% fan speed) so naturally i opened it up and tried to delid, but it went wrong, on the process of deliding rsx i knocked of a big smd capacitor near rsx, as you can imagine i panicked and tried to solder it back together and i did (sort of) then i continued on the deliding process but the ihs didn't budge and i heard a couple of tiny clicks but it wasn't the glue beneath the ihs, panicked again so i took a deep breath putted back together turned it on, it beeped then turned off after two sec then i panicked more so i opened it and resolderd the capacitor using a heatgun this time to heat up the board to solder it better, this time it worked and it was working fine, tested it again with new thermal compound and the result was pretty much the same 74 on cell and 80 on rsx after 35 min while playing TLOU this time, i was kind of happy that i didn't turned my ps3 into a brick but disappointed about the temps at the same time.

so here's the question for the experts should i accept the risk and try to delid again at least the rsx or should i ramp up the fan speed to 40 and live with the fact that my lovely ps3 will someday die

oh and i love my ps3 btw had so many memories with it and i dont want to break it

another concern is when i tried to apply pressure to ihs to remove it i may have cracked the glue on the vrams in that case does the vram get overheated and die? should i worry about this? or i gut a little paranoid
 
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amirtondari said:
Hey Guys i think i need a little help here making a decision about maintaining my ps3
here's the story
I've got a little nostalgic yesterday when i saw my ps3 slim in my basement on a shelf collecting dust so i decided to plug it into my tv and play some old games, about 15 min or so i checked the temps while playing original uncharted, well it was hot 75 on cell and 81 on rsx (syscon setting 30% fan speed) so naturally i opened it up and tried to delid, but it went wrong, on the process of deliding rsx i knocked of a big smd capacitor near rsx, as you can imagine i panicked and tried to solder it back together and i did (sort of) then i continued on the deliding process but the ihs didn't budge and i heard a couple of tiny clicks but it wasn't the glue beneath the ihs, panicked again so i took a deep breath putted back together turned it on, it beeped then turned off after two sec then i panicked more so i opened it and resolderd the capacitor using a heatgun this time to heat up the board to solder it better, this time it worked and it was working fine, tested it again with new thermal compound and the result was pretty much the same 74 on cell and 80 on rsx after 35 min while playing TLOU this time, i was kind of happy that i didn't turned my ps3 into a brick but disappointed about the temps at the same time.

so here's the question for the experts should i accept the risk and try to delid again at least the rsx or should i ramp up the fan speed to 40 and live with the fact that my lovely ps3 will someday die

oh and i love my ps3 btw had so many memories with it and i dont want to break it

another concern is when i tried to apply pressure to ihs to remove it i may have cracked the glue on the vrams in that case does the vram get overheated and die? should i worry about this? or i gut a little paranoid
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some people on here were getting similar temps to you.

what is the ambient temp of the room your ps3 is in? is it well ventilated?
 
amirtondari said:
Hey Guys i think i need a little help here making a decision about maintaining my ps3
here's the story
I've got a little nostalgic yesterday when i saw my ps3 slim in my basement on a shelf collecting dust so i decided to plug it into my tv and play some old games, about 15 min or so i checked the temps while playing original uncharted, well it was hot 75 on cell and 81 on rsx (syscon setting 30% fan speed) so naturally i opened it up and tried to delid, but it went wrong, on the process of deliding rsx i knocked of a big smd capacitor near rsx, as you can imagine i panicked and tried to solder it back together and i did (sort of) then i continued on the deliding process but the ihs didn't budge and i heard a couple of tiny clicks but it wasn't the glue beneath the ihs, panicked again so i took a deep breath putted back together turned it on, it beeped then turned off after two sec then i panicked more so i opened it and resolderd the capacitor using a heatgun this time to heat up the board to solder it better, this time it worked and it was working fine, tested it again with new thermal compound and the result was pretty much the same 74 on cell and 80 on rsx after 35 min while playing TLOU this time, i was kind of happy that i didn't turned my ps3 into a brick but disappointed about the temps at the same time.

so here's the question for the experts should i accept the risk and try to delid again at least the rsx or should i ramp up the fan speed to 40 and live with the fact that my lovely ps3 will someday die

oh and i love my ps3 btw had so many memories with it and i dont want to break it

another concern is when i tried to apply pressure to ihs to remove it i may have cracked the glue on the vrams in that case does the vram get overheated and die? should i worry about this? or i gut a little paranoid
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if it was me, i would do the eraser mod for the xpu but for rsx, i would bend the clamp slightly to put more pressure on the chip.
 
Funny how people know nothing about PS3 Temps & what qualifies as overheating but first thing they try to do is delidding.

BTW, there is a secret homebrew called webman which has dynamic fan control functionality. Unfortunately, its very hard to find on internet these days. So people are forced to use Syscon.
 
snkplkn said:
Funny how people know nothing about PS3 Temps & what qualifies as overheating but first thing they try to do is delidding.

BTW, there is a secret homebrew called webman which has dynamic fan control functionality. Unfortunately, its very hard to find on internet these days. So people are forced to use Syscon.
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Sarcasm?
 
froggy8 said:
some people on here were getting similar temps to you.

what is the ambient temp of the room your ps3 is in? is it well ventilated?
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it should be about 25-30 and its ventilated
froggy8 said:
if it was me, i would do the eraser mod for the xpu but for rsx, i would bend the clamp slightly to put more pressure on the chip.
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already bent the clamps
snkplkn said:
Funny how people know nothing about PS3 Temps & what qualifies as overheating but first thing they try to do is delidding.

BTW, there is a secret homebrew called webman which has dynamic fan control functionality. Unfortunately, its very hard to find on internet these days. So people are forced to use Syscon.
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i know its not overheating but its inevitable because thermal compound is cheap and old and i have webman that's how i see the temps, syscon was just for the tests when put it on dynamic 70 the fans go crazy and thats another problem beacause it reduce the fan lifespan drastically especially when its speed goes up and down and if the fan dies my ps3 goes along with it and thats defeats the purpose of maintaining it.

and there is another option though, i can send it to an expert for delid but again he can break the console
 
If you've never done a successful delidding and don't have the right tools, don't test it out unless your willing to take the chance of destroying the motherboard. Take it from someone who's killed 2 this way, but also has had about 6 successful deliddings as of now. You will most likely destroy 1 or 2 before you figure out the methods. Also if you don't have a proper heat gun or know the techniques, do not attempt either the RSX or the CPU. Study some of NSC's video's if you really want to learn de-lidding, but take into account you'll probably break something on your first go. I use a painters knife for the CPU and razor blades to break the glue on the v-ram chips. Again watch a professional like NSC before even hacking your way into this process. It's very very easy for things to go wrong if you don't have the process down.
 
Checkity_CheckYoSelf said:
If you've never done a successful delidding and don't have the right tools, don't test it out unless your willing to take the chance of destroying the motherboard. Take it from someone who's killed 2 this way, but also has had about 6 successful deliddings as of now. You will most likely destroy 1 or 2 before you figure out the methods. Also if you don't have a proper heat gun or know the techniques, do not attempt either the RSX or the CPU. Study some of NSC's video's if you really want to learn de-lidding, but take into account you'll probably break something on your first go. I use a painters knife for the CPU and razor blades to break the glue on the v-ram chips. Again watch a professional like NSC before even hacking your way into this process. It's very very easy for things to go wrong if you don't have the process down.
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well im not gonna try to delid anymore thanks for the advise but im considering sending it to an expert that do this kind of stuff for sony service center
 
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