My 80GB Backwards compatible PS3 was extremely loud. I went ahead and opened it and replaced the thermal paste with some AS5. It seems just as loud if not louder after an hour of Ratchet & Clank A Crack In Time (Great game btw). Do you think I put too much thermal compound?
Should I go ahead and remove the graphics card cover like someone did accidentally here:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-153/...erboard-809486/
When I put AS5 I spread it evenly across the chip but now I'm thinking of reapplying with a little tiny bit in the middle like a Computer CPU. Is that a good idea?
I'm out of warranty so I can do whatever I want.
Did you blow out any dust build up while you were in there?
It may sound daft, but has the temp of the room increased recently (with winter coming, maybe heating has been switched on...)?
The loud fan in itself is nothing to worry about, If you PS3 starts shutting itself down and/or restarting you may be running into trouble as it is over heating.
At the moment, id just blow out any dust, make sure it has plenty of room around it and not worry too much.
I did clean out ALL the dust (I spend about 15 minutes just dusting it. As for the fans loud, I did take it apart again and realized that the heatsink on the CPU or GPU barely had any AS5 probably leading to it kicking in high speed. It used to be very silent and now it's high speed within 5 minutes. I'll replace the AS5 and see how it goes. As for where the PS3 is, I have a computer there too and it's CPU is at 90F so I can't imagine the PS3 being too much hotter.
-Dot in the middle of the RSX and 4 small dots in each corner
-A small + on the CPU
And I let it idle at the login screen for 10 minutes and it was silent. The cover was off but I don't think that would make a difference because the heat collects at the bottom.
-Dot in the middle of the RSX and 4 small dots in each corner
-A small + on the CPU
And I let it idle at the login screen for 10 minutes and it was silent. The cover was off but I don't think that would make a difference because the heat collects at the bottom.
This is not how to use AS5 correctly. To do it correctly, you need a small, flat piece of plastic. You squirt some of it onto each chip, then use the piece of plastic to spread it around untill it is covering the entire chip face. You want it to be as thin as possible without having any bare spots.
You want the heat sink to be One with the chip. Very thin coat of past.
If I ever have a problem with cooling, I will get a small 110v muffin fan and use plumbers tape to mount it above the chip that is getting hot. I’d connect the muffin fan to the source 110v as to not create more load on the power supply.
Since the RSX looks much like that CPU with the heatspreadder removed. Since I didn't know how the Cell Broadband Engine looked, I did the + sign since I know that the CPU is in the middle but I do not know the orientation of it.
The chip looks something like this:
so by doing the + you are covering the entire chip with AS5.
There is no need to apply a thin coat over the entire thing because the pressure of the heatsink will apply it's own thin coat in the middle and will cover the imperfections.
I had a thin coat earlier and it would hit high speed in the XMB. Now 10 -15 minutes in the XMB keeps it silent. You have to put your ear up to it to hear the fan but you usually hear the hard drive over the fan.
