Thermal replace for a new ps3

[dhafer419]

Hi, I have a cecha00 that I bought in Japan and checking the uptime it's only 22 days, I wanna know if you need to replace thermal paste and pads or do I have to delid the PS3,
Thanks

 

[CrazyRati0n]

Of course it's worth doing the delid and thermal pads replacement, as these thermal compounds from the factory are very crappy one and it dries years ago.

 

[Anthonyy817]

Hi, I have a cecha00 that I bought in Japan and checking the uptime it's only 22 days, I wanna know if you need to replace thermal paste and pads or do I have to delid the PS3,
Thanks

How do you check the up time? I assume this changes if a HDD has been replaced or upgraded?

Also with the years that have passed it is still a good idea to at least change paste even if not going to do a delid.

 

[dhafer419]

How do you check the up time? I assume this changes if a HDD has been replaced or upgraded?

Also with the years that have passed it is still a good idea to at least change paste even if not going to do a delid.

It's through webman mod and evilnat's custom firmware tools

 

[ninku]

Yes you need to change, the ps3 fat even unused is old and the thermal paste has already dried up, I use the zf-ex paste on my ps3 slim and it works fine. delid is dangerous look for someone who already has experience in doing.​

 

[CrazyRati0n]

Yes you need to change, the ps3 fat even unused is old and the thermal paste has already dried up, I use the zf-ex paste on my ps3 slim and it works fine. delid is dangerous look for someone who already has experience in doing.​

I'm not going to encourage OP to do the delid, but I delidded my own CECHB00 without any experience, meaning I haven't done it before. I merely watched a lot of youtube videos about that and I tried it. With success - the most crucial thing is not to hurry up!. Personally, I find this video as most helpful for me when it comes to CELL (it's in Polish, but it doesn't matter, what this guy is doing, speaks for itself):

And I used this pattern to delid the RSX (the process starts at around 6:10, I heated up the IHS ofc, I don't have the heatgun, but I just used the hair dryer, heated up the IHS for around 30s on highest temp of hair dryer and removed the IHS with no problems):

 

[dhafer419]

I did replace the thremal paste and pads seems console doesn't reach more then 75c cell 67c rsx compared to before which it almost reached 80c cell 75c rsx!

 

[dhafer419]

Though I am gonna probably buy a broken board an try to practice since it's pretty rare to find a PS3 with low usage