Comments on: Cooling Overheating PS3 Cabinet

By: Mick West

Mick West — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:06:28 +0000

It’s still working pretty much as before. The PS3 has been in use several times a week for three years, and still works just fine.

By: hotrod351

hotrod351 — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:27:58 +0000

just wondered how this setup is still working for you. yeah i messed my ps3 up in my cabinet, had the door closed, dumb. now i leave it open and i put some large holes behind the ps3. im looking for a fan to put behind it figuring it would pull the air out better than the way it is now. ive been looking at the 12 volt fans with a thermo sensor. but the setup you have draws its voltage from the ps3, 5 volts. just wonder how that fan would compare to a fan that runs on its own 12 volt supply.

By: Mick

Mick — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:01:41 +0000

Yeah, the extra fans are probably not necessary, especially if you have not heard the regular fan yet,

By: vampirereign

vampirereign — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:22:18 +0000

my ps3 is not in a cabinet,it sits next to the tv,in the open air,so there’s no heat build-up,but i have it sitting on a 3-fan laptop cooling pad,powered by the ps3′s usb port.i have never heard the fan,even before using the cooling pad,so am i just making the ps3′s power supply work harder unnecessarily?

By: mrbobdog707

mrbobdog707 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:00:37 +0000

I too was forced to place the ps3 inside of a cabinet, so I mounted two fans at the rear to vent all the hot inside. The fans are controlled by a standard thermostat,so the fans only come when the temps that I have preset(78F)So now all that hot air is removed from the area. Also I just recently opened up my ps3,cleaned and applied new thermal paste(arctic-silver5)this actually does help with the heat transfer, but it takes up to 200hrs before the paste breaks in..so the actual results might change

By: XBox Support

XBox Support — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:23:41 +0000

This is an awesome fix, but it’s really just better to not keep it in the cabinet to begin with.

By: Mick jackson

Mick jackson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:55:15 +0000

I suppose extracting the air from a cabinet wouldnt affect displacement, I was mainly thinking of directly from the ps3, like the clip on fans sold on ebay

By: Mick West

Mick West — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:07:48 +0000

Well, my final setup had the fan sucking hot air out of the cabinet, so the incoming air would be coming in from multiple points, with very little forced airflow at the intakes, hopefully just cooler air.

By: Mick Jackson

Mick Jackson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:04:20 +0000

Oooops…. Forgot to mention, all this talk on cooling fans here, there and everywhere not one person has mentioned the effect of forced induction or extraction, You see the ps3 already has a cooling fan built in, so really all that you should be looking for is some form of cooling without the need of extra fans, remember, the internal fan is running at a speed at which it in itself feels comfortable, now adding extra fans on say the intake will force the internal fan to either spin faster, or slower depending on their output capacity, same goes for the exhaust, sucking air out of the unit will cause the internal fan to spin faster. I do take it you have done such testing before adding un-needed fans. try it with some standard pc fans, set one running at an average speed then introduce another fan either in front of it or behind it, power it up and see the outcome. this forced slowing down or speeding up of the internal fan must have some effect. Im no professor, im just trying to think logically so if im missing something please feel free to comment.

By: Mick Jackson

Mick Jackson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:50:04 +0000

I have just completed my 8th hot air gun repair on my 60gb launch machine, and have come to the decission to run it with the top off the Blue Ray Drive and the top off the unit. sweet as a nut now…..