Oh man.. Cutting a hole in a $600 console. That's priceless!
I know they say people do the weirdest things imaginable but sometimes there's just no limit to the nuttyness.
Considering how many vent holes there are already on basically every side of the PS3 I can't imagine how the guy thought he needed to cut a hole in the casing.
I sincerely hope you're not speaking about yoursel fin third person to try and mask the embarrassment!
Peace.
Exactly, I mean Playstation 3 are not known to have total heat failiure the likes of Microsoft XBox 360's Red Ring of Death that totally kills the motherboard.
The fact that the fan makes noise get louder depending on the circumstances means that the console is doing its job, if it was that the consoles were dropping dead then we really could start pointing fingers.
I saw that pic of the hole on top of the PS3, what an idiotic thing to do, its like whoever thought this up decided to think that the PS3 designers did not even intelligently plan for proper heat dissipation.
I do have this to say though, the PS3 is and was very efficiently designed to dissipate heat just by looking at the choices that were made, the Nvidia Nv40 GPU was fabbed on a 130nm engineering process and those chips could run pretty damn hot at 222 Million transistors, later Nvidia's G70 generated even more heat at 110nm process and 302 Million transistors for the 7800 GTX 512MB, finally RSX is G70 or G7X based, there is a claim of a similar 302 Million transistor count but this time its on a 90nm engineering process so the GPU is able to in theory generate less heat and operate much more efficiently.
Cell BE however is the "new" chip and at 90nm engineering process and all of its capabilities it should generate and dissipate heat as it should, the PS3 cooling solution with its variable speed fan is an excellent choice for a console priced initially in the $499, 599 price range.
However we should theorise about the following, prior to any 65nm die shrinks, would it make sense to say that as Sony fabs more Cell BE CPUs at 90nm, the later cpus should at the very least benefit of being fabbed on more mature process?
I seem to remember that the Japanese PS2 I rented way back in early 2000 to sound pretty loud compared to previous consoles Dreamcast included, the PS2 I ended up purchasing in 2002 did run loud as well, however I had the Electronics Bountique 2 year warranty and I traded my console in 2004 to a much more quiet console. I was pretty shocked though that later when the PS2 Slim was introduced, even though it still have a fan inside it was so much quieter, yet I still don't think that neither Dreamcasts nor PS2s were dropping dead beause of heat issues no matter how loud the fans were, at most it was DVD/GD drive spinning motor failiure as the chips inside were pretty much bullet proof so I and many others can infer that Sony must have done its homework on PS3 with later consoles benefiting from obvious technology advances.
