Playstation 3 Fat Teardown
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The PlayStation 3 is by far the most complex consoles to date, and a look at the inside reveals that the thermal design is even more complex than that of notebooks and desktops today. On the motherboard of the PlayStation 3, there are a few key elements on the motherboard that immediately attract the eye: the two most prominent being the Cell processor and RSX graphics engine.
If you slightly push the disc into the slot and feel a big resistance it’s likely you are facing a blocked disc tray. Also check the LEDs: if there are blue and green like mine(and not red – in this case it would be a really serious technical problem), you are facing the same problem like me. Ok, enough problem description let’s get started!
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This is the simplest step: under your PlayStation you will find a rubber foot . Remove it and you will find a small hole that contains a screw. Take a screwdriver and unscrew it. You will see that the black plastic deck with the PS3 logo will detach very easily. To do this you only need to push it in the arrow’s direction .
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Seagate, who already supplies Microsoft with 20GB hard drives for the Xbox 360, scores another win by supplying Sony with 20 and 60GB drives for the PlayStation 3. The hard drive found in the 'fully loaded' version of the PlayStation 3 is a 60GB 2.5" Seagate Momentus 5400.2. The mobile drive runs on the SATA 1.5Gbps interface, spins at 5400 RPM and has average seek times of 12.5ms.
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The second step of our manipulation is to unscrew the seven screws that are holding a second black protection deck. Notice that one of the screws is shorter than the other ones. This operation is pretty simple and after a few minutes of unscrewing you will see the operating unit of the PlayStation on the left side and on the right side the Blu-ray player.
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You will notice that you need to unscrew two other screws in order to remove the top part of the mechanism. This part contains two plastic parts and a central magnet in the middle of the drive. Notice the clips at both sides : carefully press them and remove the upper part. Hurray! Now you have reached the heart of the drive and the disc tray mechanism. Be careful not to touch the lenses!
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Habrá que ver si disminuye su tamaño drásticamente como la vez anterior , pues se ve mucho espacio muerto en las placas de las actuales slim, obviamente que la refrigeración influirá en el resultado. No se conocen imágenes reales del prototipo aún ni se saben sus dimensiones, al menos entre los datos publicados. La etiqueta cambia de lugar como en cada formato.
Last time I wanted to insert one of my favorite games in the PlayStation 3 (fat edition) and bam: the disc can’t be inserted no more. What a huge deception, I firstly thought that there was already a disc in the console and pressed several times the EJECT button: it was impossible to insert a disc: the drive has curiously stopped accepting the disc.
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Now carefully remove the drive from its location (and please do not mistreat the wide connection cable: it’s very fragile!). You should now see a white sticker at the bottom of the drive. Remove it slowly. Push the small connector interface and now you will be able to separate the drive from the cable. The drive is now loosen and you can dissect it
After pulling out the PSU it resembles a toner cartridge from a printer/copier. Still, it’s interesting how modular this part of the system is. Also of interest is the fact the system fan blows the heat off the CPU/GPU and then THROUGH the PSU assembly, and finally out the back of the system. Again this reminded me of a car, where often the electronics are in-line with the air vents to keep them cool.
Not sure how legible it is, but it says “Sony Computer Entertainment”, and then there’s a PlayStation logo on the far right. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a company bother to make the inside of a console look this cool before, so my hat is off to Sony. Asthetics aside, this black portion is the power supply.