PS3 What is the most reliable PS3 model?

Gabriel2Silva

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I had 6 PS3s, all dead. 1 Phat, 3 Slims, 2 Super Slims. I was chatting with a friend yesterday and we were discussing which model of the PlayStation 3 is considered the most reliable/durable nowadays.

I know first generation Phats (90nm chips) had BGA and NEC TOKIN issues, even though they had insane cooling.

I have absolutely no idea how reliable the later Phats (CECHG, SEM-001 onwards) are.

Then, the first generation Slim (CECH-2000, DYN-001) still had the dreaded NEC TOKIN capacitors on the RSX. They replaced it with tantalums in the 2100. Although, to be frank, I don't see many people complaining about dead TOKINs with this model: it seems to be a Phat thing?

CECH-25xx/30xx Slims and CECH-40xx Super Slims all seem pretty solid, but I've seen a lot of these consoles with the "black-out" issue where the console simply dies out of nowhere and the power LED goes black (RSX issue? seems like it). Three of my own consoles had this issue and I made sure they always had good temps, fan curves and good thermal paste. One of my Slims (2500) have a dead GbLAN IC and it BSODs on boot.

Is there a consensus on this?
 
My only rock solid system I didn't have to do any work on ever was my CECH-2501A I still have buying it new. I have had numerous CECH-2000 & CECH-3000 have video out failure. Any 2000 or phat is prone to NEC cap failure. If I had to go blindly buy a system it would hands down be the CECH-2100 as it can 100% take CFW and had most issues ironed out.
 
Gabriel2Silva said:
I had 6 PS3s, all dead. 1 Phat, 3 Slims, 2 Super Slims. I was chatting with a friend yesterday and we were discussing which model of the PlayStation 3 is considered the most reliable/durable nowadays.

I know first generation Phats (90nm chips) had BGA and NEC TOKIN issues, even though they had insane cooling.

I have absolutely no idea how reliable the later Phats (CECHG, SEM-001 onwards) are.

Then, the first generation Slim (CECH-2000, DYN-001) still had the dreaded NEC TOKIN capacitors on the RSX. They replaced it with tantalums in the 2100. Although, to be frank, I don't see many people complaining about dead TOKINs with this model: it seems to be a Phat thing?

CECH-25xx/30xx Slims and CECH-40xx Super Slims all seem pretty solid, but I've seen a lot of these consoles with the "black-out" issue where the console simply dies out of nowhere and the power LED goes black (RSX issue? seems like it). Three of my own consoles had this issue and I made sure they always had good temps, fan curves and good thermal paste. One of my Slims (2500) have a dead GbLAN IC and it BSODs on boot.

Is there a consensus on this?
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CECH-2001a & CECH-2501A

Question , did you use webman mod fan ?
 
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The removal of the tokins happened in this order, is directly related with the CELL/RSX manufacturing process and the power requirements

CECH-20xx is the first PS3 model with a 45nm CELL (without tokins), previous version was 65nm (with tokins)
CECH-21xx is the first PS3 model with a 40nm RSX (without tokins), previous version was 65nm (with tokins)
 
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