This is clearly a waste of money, but I can't seem to get my ps3 slim to be cooling properly while pertaining to the acoustics of a pc. I once tried putting the ps3 on the other side of the wall and having it hooked up to a long HDMI cord, but i moved to another house and cannot happen again. Today, I experimented with an insulated bench with a BIG fan, but no luck; the machine gets too hot without circulation. Now that I'm more interested into tech, I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. After research, I have seen some water cooling done before, but I'm not quite there with custom water cooling. I would like to have the ps3 motherboard and all of its components in some kind of test bench case like the Cooler Master HAF XB EVO. I don't care how big it is I just need it quiet and cool. (My games are all digital so the disc drive won't be in the build)
Just buy a big fish tank fill it with mineral oil and drop the PS3 inside... BAM its cool!
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Well it may be problematic for the disk drive and hard drive to use mineral oil.
Most people just mount the drives on the back of the "case" (fishtank) because the oil will get inside of the drive through the air hole and kill it...
Well arnt they helpful, ^^. did you try adding a bunch of usb fans? stick em everywhere, get some air flow.
Well arnt they helpful, ^^. did you try adding a bunch of usb fans? stick em everywhere, get some air flow.
About it being hot though? Everything is hot, or does it shut down when it gets hot or something? Also putting a ps3 into a pc case would be a ridiculous waste of money and you'll probably just fuck up the ps3 in the doing of it.
A PS3, PS4, XBOX, w/e is just a PC in a case. You can take the same precautions and open one up and move it to a new case as you would any PC, you'd just void your warranty in doing so.
To the OP,
I doubt any console is using a standard ATX variant board, you'll likely have to make your own case or mod an existing one by drilling out holes, but that can get risky metal shavings in the case.
Yeah, the PS3 slim has a weird shaped motherboard. If it's within 12 x 9.6 inches it should fit though.
Just a fair warning though, you'll probably have to drill and tap a hole slew of holes in the motherboard tray of the case to attach the PS3 motherboard. And the rear I/O of might be an issue depending on spacing of the motherboard and case.
Might want to mention the need to circulate the fluid. For the same reason that the water in the pool near your baby nephew remains unusually warm, so to does the "mineral water/fluid" encircling the cpu and gpu remain hot. I do not believe most people can afford a fish tank large enough to rely upon convection alone to circulate heat in a fluid.
If your PS3 doesn't have a warranty anymore, open it up, buy a can of compressed air and blow the dust out. You can also take it to a gas station and blow it out using one of the tyre pumps, just be wary of condensation in the pump. The people who designed it took all the thermal dynamics into consideration and under normal conditions it should operate within the specified levels. Just make sure the console is in a well circulated area so that the hot air can actually escape the enclosure.
Yeah i've figured that and like you said it won't be atx or anything that'll fit in anything apart from a ps3 shell, it'll just end quite badly if he tries this IMO, unless he's an extreme case modder
I would think that most fish tank pumps would do a fine job of circulating the oil. I can't imagine that something like mineral oil would be that much more difficult to pump.
What's going to keep the mineral oil cool once it gets up to temperature ;)
It always seems that doing something like this would be fun.
The millions of gallons of air circulating above it that the heat can escape into
You can always just add some fans to the existing ps3 case. If you get ones that can run at 5v, you can run em off the usb ports via a simple adapter. I wouldnt waste money on a new case - if anything if you wanted to go that route grab a lunked pc, gut it, paint it, modd it etc.
Replacing the thermal paste on the processor would work fine as well. Making sure it's applied properly and hasn't dried out in the several years you've owned it. (It might be a thermal pad, but you can replace that with more thermally conductive paste easily... or even thermal adhesive in some cases :P) Blow out your case and even replace a fan or two.
These are the easy options.
If you want to go full blown make a custom case, put some heat sinks on the chips and have them facing the same direction, then with some careful shaping of the case you can use one fan and make a wind tunnel to cool those suckers down pretty easily and quietly.
sounds like a really cool idea, how do you know it's getting hot tho? where's the science?