PS3 Unopened CECHLxxx -- recommendations?

How important is Cell deliding, really?

  • Extremely important

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Significant enough

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • Beneficial, but unnecessary

    Votes: 4 80.0%
  • Total voters
    5
lightwo

lightwo

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Recently, I got a working Fat CECHL with 6.3k hours of uptime and 1.3k boots that hasn't been opened before, the warranty sticker is still on it. As I only just got into the PS3 recently, while I try my best to read up on as much as possible, things keep surprising me.

Given that I read about overheating on various hardware preservation threads, and experienced unexpectedly fast fan spin after installing webMAN Mod (as well as seeing an overheating warning), what is the least I should do to prevent severely effecting the device's lifetime?

  • Keep the fan speed high (not before taking other measures, fan can't maintain safe temps at the moment)
  • Replace the fans with better ones (the stock is so loud!)
  • Replace the thermal paste
  • Delid Cell CPU to replace its thermal paste too... yikes...

Also, have you got any additional advice? And yes, getting rid of dust is out of the question.

Indeed, I was made aware of various measures that are done to preserve the hardware in today's age, but seeing the horror of deliding and ways it could go wrong, I'd rather restrain myself from causing more harm than it's worth.
 
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i have a cechc04 with 4900 hours. i opened it, vacuumed the dust it had inside and changed thermal paste.
now temps for cell have hard time going over 56 in everything but last of us, fan set to 37% always. room temps 28. not delidded
 
Indeed. That, and I've never seen any notable difference in temperatures between a delid and a standard unit.

For example - two DIA-001 units in my sig - the 250GB M03 and the 320GB H04.
The M03 has both RSX and CELL delidded, the H04 does not (its only issue was rotten caps diagnosed by SYSCON.).
I've barely noticed a difference of temperatures between them - the M03 runs at best 3 to 4 degrees colder than the H04.
Both were done with the same thermal paste - Arctic MX6.
 
Great, I'm done removing all dust and re-pasting.

Result: 70°C - 72°C with "auto at 72°C" and dynamic fan speeds 40% - 90% set in webMAN MOD. Not nearly as low as @Samppa109s' unit, but that should be low enough, right? The fan doesn't have to work nearly as hard, which is a great improvement.

The smart plate was a pain in the ass, broke off a bit, but at least it slides nicely now.

Also, a tip I haven't seen elsewhere: if a vacuum is used, it's best to start with an empty dust collector so that it's possible to observe its new contents -- I had a thermal pad get in, it would be a shame if I lost it forever.
 
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Berion said:
In IDLE or after playing some demanding game?
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While idling it stagnates at 70, while gaming the fan profile maintains 72 degrees (73 at most). I could make the fan kick in at 65 or so, but then it'd probably get a lot louder.

I only had time to test GTA IV so far, but I have more games to try out.
 
Quite high if right after the start You have that. I also have CECHLxx.

GTA4 is one of early games but quite demanding. Yet best stress test be The Last of Us, Uncharted series, GT5/6, GTA5.
 
Berion said:
Quite high if right after the start You have that. I also have CECHLxx.

GTA4 is one of early games but quite demanding. Yet best stress test be The Last of Us, Uncharted series, GT5/6, GTA5.
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70 is after I close a game and it goes idle, although it takes a fair amount of time for it to get to 70 after boot.

I also tested GTAV and same thing here, the dynamic fan control helps it maintain <74 at cost of occasionally ramping up the fan speed.

I heard that 80~85 and up are when it stops being fun and games, but it didn't reach that far.
 
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