PS3 help!

Hello, I've had this Ps3 since 2007(I believe) it's the fat version. And I have restarted playing it again. Playing Battlefield 3 and Mortal Kombat.

Now here is the problem, the heat, and the noise! After around 15 minutes of playing it sounds like a fighter jet engine. And the heat isn't too bad. I have tried every way I know.

By vacuuming the vents to get the dust out, and putting a fan beside it to cool it off. I read the putting it on it's side helps it, but for me, not so much. I have been thinking about getting a cooler for it. But all the reviews says it ruins your system. And that it breaks after a couple of months. I try and put up with the sounds, but I feel like the thing will explode if I play any longer at points. So am I better off selling it and getting a new one? Or is there a special thing I can do to extend my Ps3s life?

No console war

No PC is master race

I would imagine that people exist who could fix it for you. If you at least get a quote you can decide whether it is worth getting it fixed or buying a new one

@guttridgeb:I'd rather not have to buy and new one. Or pay some one to fix it for me. If there is not hope for my ps3 I will but I wanted to know if there is anything I could do.

@jwalser3: If you at least get it checked out it isn't then necessary to pay for it to be fixed. That way if you can do something yourself the PS3-fixers (not sure what the actual term would be) can let you know, provided they are honest. I recently thought I had a broken Xbox 360 but when I brought it to someone to get it fixed there was just something stuck in the fan, it meant that I didn't have to pay at all and they were fine with it.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@jwalser3: You may get the yellow light of death soon, thats what happened to my PS3 not long ago

This.

It sounds like the fans may give out If you continue to push It.

Guess the warranty expired some years ago. Sony could refurbish it, but it will still cost you.

To me, it sounds like the Heat Sink isn't really absorbing much of the heat created by the "Cell" CPU. That CPU generates alot of heat and fast, and the Heat Sink (A row of metal walls) supposed to absorb that heat.

Two heat sinks in a PS3 (One that surronds the CPU (Cell Engine) and another one that surrounds the GPU.

Since the heat is generating faster than the Heat Sink can absorb and become recooled, The problem must be because of the fan. The fan is supposed to re-cool the Heat Sink so that the heat can disperse better. If the fan is not working like it should, you must have a vent block. All the vents have to be open. Meaning no placing console on the carpet or have near by objects blocking the path for the air to escape. You can clean the vents and fan from dust, but make sure the air path are not blocked.

Yeah, while Sony was in development of the Cell, they seemed to not have thought twice about the air circulation of the console, because the Cell Engine is a huge CPU. That's why they made the Cell smaller with less transistors for the newer models, so that the fan can keep up with the lower emission heat and the air that circulates is cool to warm rather than blowing constant hot air back into the machine.

See if you can sell it to someone else then use the money to buy a new one.

Oh and I forgot to mention, Like a car engine and its headgaskets.

Once the CPU is overheated in an extended time, it's game over.

Get the slim you knob.

@Xanni15 said:

See if you can sell it to someone else then use the money to buy a new one.

I'll probably end up doing that.

It seems your PS3 is getting old. You might need to buy the slim.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@jwalser3: You may get the yellow light of death soon, thats what happened to my PS3 not long ago

same thing happened to me....called Sony to see about getting it fixed and they wanted $125 to fix it and would only give a year warranty on the fix...not worth it imo so I took that $125 added $175 and got a Uncharted 3 bundle that included of course Uncharted 3 and a 300 gb slim model

@jwalser3: also if you have the 60gb backwards compatible model then you can sell even a broken model on ebay for big bucks

@guttridgeb:

Awww poor baby *In baby voice* You know theirs people who could help you with that. dO.Ob

(JK)

@jwalser3: I feel your pain. I've had my PS3 since 2007, the original 80GB backwards compatible with four USB slots. She's a tank, only froze once and that was over two years ago while playing a PS2 game and repeatedly pressing start. But she's getting up there in age, a little louder here and there, loading slower, getting hot a little faster. I'll miss her when she's gone.

@jwalser3: The fan is broken. or too dirty. If you can open it up gently, and correctly, you can fix it. Warning: If you're confident enough only. at your own discretion.

@x_29: mine still works perfectly for me and its the fat one.

@KnightRise:If my baby dies you're invited to the funeral.

@jwalser3: how well did you take care of it?

@TheInfamousGod:Played it A LOT for the first couple of years. Then I actually stopped playing for awhile because I notice it got a lot louder. But not to long ago(about a month and a half) I started playing again. But while I stopped playing it sat by my TV collecting dust, so I vacuumed the vents out.