RARusk Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35549 Some guys in Japan got their hands on PS3s and took them apart. Some nice technical info and pictures plus additional links. http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/11/ps3-manu...ry-replacement/ Believe it or not, Sony left instructions on how to change out the PS3s hard drive right in the owners manual. I honestly didn't think they would let you be able to do that. Are they trying to one-up MicroSoft concerning replaceable hard drives or does it have something to do with potential homebrew development? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Wow, the PS3 has a monster cooling system, between the enormous fan, heat fins and pipes. I have heard it runs relatively quiet and cool, though. I love the crazy names Sony assigns their processors ("Emotion Engine", "CELL Broadband Engine", "Reality Synthesizer"). Nice pictures, thanks for posting the link. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricDeLee Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Reading along through the site and snorted while reading some of the stuff: Yes its big but it could also be the scaler aswel as the I/O, that would explain the chips size. Hold on a minute.... Maybe its a FLUX CAPACITOR for PS3s 4D time manipulation Damn i knew Sony were up to something! That's the reason of the delay!! They had to go into the future, get it, modify it to make it fit in a PS3 and come back!! Love it..... By the way... I was in Walmart... and saw a PS3 on display. Had the guy open it up and everything because it was frozen.... Discovered a little secret perhaps some should know: it wasn't even hooked up to the screen. Take a good look at a few of these display units before saying they are freezing up. This store was feeding video from elsewhere. The PS3 I touched did not even have a power cord attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 By the way... I was in Walmart... and saw a PS3 on display. Had the guy open it up and everything because it was frozen.... Discovered a little secret perhaps some should know: it wasn't even hooked up to the screen. Take a good look at a few of these display units before saying they are freezing up. This store was feeding video from elsewhere. The PS3 I touched did not even have a power cord attached. That's pretty funny, so I assume then you can't even _play_ the PS3 in these demo kiosks? They're just running a video loop? Funny. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 By the way... I was in Walmart... and saw a PS3 on display. Had the guy open it up and everything because it was frozen.... Discovered a little secret perhaps some should know: it wasn't even hooked up to the screen. Take a good look at a few of these display units before saying they are freezing up. This store was feeding video from elsewhere. The PS3 I touched did not even have a power cord attached. That's pretty funny, so I assume then you can't even _play_ the PS3 in these demo kiosks? They're just running a video loop? Funny. ..Al I saw one yesterday, and it was frozen as well. I wonder what they are using to play the video loop. The PS3 unit is probably just a model since it's not hooked up. Why put a real unit in there when they are in such short supply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I saw one yesterday, and it was frozen as well. I wonder what they are using to play the video loop. The PS3 unit is probably just a model since it's not hooked up. Why put a real unit in there when they are in such short supply? Because people would like to play one before plunking down $600? Well, okay, I understand they'll sell ever single one they can pump out the door between now and Christmas, sight unseen, but it still would be nice. Hopefully this will change after the holidays and there will be playable PS3 kiosks in most stores. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricDeLee Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I agree... I would like to play one and spend a little bt of time with it prior to plopping down $600. I will get one... eventually. But I've got another purchase to make that means more to me then this one... that will be done around springtime. Then I'll grab a PS3 around Summer or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Wow, the PS3 has a monster cooling system, between the enormous fan, heat fins and pipes. I have heard it runs relatively quiet and cool, though. I love the crazy names Sony assigns their processors ("Emotion Engine", "CELL Broadband Engine", "Reality Synthesizer"). Nice pictures, thanks for posting the link. ..Al You can't really hear it at all, the cooling system is quite a piece of engineering. IBM named the processor the CBE and Nvidia called their chip RSX, not Sony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 I also found this picture of a new hard drive install on the PS3. Yeah, it's going to hang out the side but I am sure that somebody is already designing a PS3 specific hard drive enclosure to prevent this from happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Of course, you could just switch in a bigger capacity laptop drive, that wouldn't hang out of the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 I think laptop drives max out at 120GB. Anything with more capacity is going to be too large to fit into the PS3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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