Belly up to the Bar (aka The Post Whorin' Thread)

[dReWpY]

they covered the entire cost, and i had to pay nothing... pure win in my book

[Gas Man]

I don't remember. Howd u pull tt off?

But I will say this. Then they aren't buletproof either.

[the chi]

Im on the fence. Im not a huge fangirl of the Apple brand, tho I LOVE my iphone, regardless of what you haters say, and I love aspects of my Macbook. Like I dont have to wait 20 minutes for it to boot up like my old windows based laptops, but at the same time, it does piss me off when it comes to saving things, finding shit it rearranged for me because I pushed the wrong button, etc. Mostly my fault as I havent taken a tutorial on using the damn thing. As far as quality and screen resolution, OMG its awesome. But that only really matters if you need that, and I still do alot of photography so its great. I guess it all falls down to what you need it for.

Gas, NOTHING is bulletproof.

[marko138]

Gas you've never even used a Mac. STFU.

[Dave]

Ps3 ylod'ed for the second time last night. Grrrrrrr. Oh well, I was thinking about changing up the thermal compound and maybe redlining the stock fan anyway

[marko138]

English?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by marko138

English?

It overheated and desoldered either the cpu or gpu. A fix involves stripping it down to motherboard and frying it with a heat gun. Then reassembling with new thermal transfer compound. Usually only lasts a few months.

To extend those months I'm thinking about taking advantage of the ps3's variable speed fan. Either by hardwiring it for full speed, switch, or maybe a potentiometer, or some combination of the three.

[Rangerscott]

There's the fix were you drip liquid solder under it, then heating it. Of course all these console fixes are really ghetto and are harmful. Putting a concentrated 1500f heat beam on a cpu is not good.

Turned out my PS3 wasnt overheating. Damn undead redemption was just fudged up. I just went to another location, saved, then went back to the missionary and it worked. Sucks that consoles games are now buggy like pc games.


I would recommend taking the HDD cover plate off. The HDD gets pretty hot down there with no air flow. I have HDD cover off, PS3 standing up on a laptop fan cooler. Very nice.


I'm going to open her back up and install a fan control knob. It gets annoying hearing the thing go quite, then loud, quite, then loud, etc. I want a nice constant medium fan speed and a cool ps3. Not let it heat up to volcano heat, then breath on it for a minute.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

There's the fix were you drip liquid solder under it, then heating it. Of course all these console fixes are really ghetto and are harmful. Putting a concentrated 1500f heat beam on a cpu is not good.bi

Turned out my PS3 wasnt overheating. Damn undead redemption was just fudged up. I just went to another location, saved, then went back to the missionary and it worked. Sucks that consoles games are now buggy like pc games.


I would recommend taking the HDD cover plate off. The HDD gets pretty hot down there with no air flow. I have HDD cover off, PS3 standing up on a laptop fan cooler. Very nice.


I'm going to open her back up and install a fan control knob. It gets annoying hearing the thing go quite, then loud, quite, then loud, etc. I want a nice constant medium fan speed and a cool ps3. Not let it heat up to volcano heat, then breath on it for a minute.

I try warm the whole board up before I concentrate anything. Always let it cool before touching or moving too.

I'm thinking about drilling the case and adding a mini switch to send a 3.3v signal to the fan (max speed) and leaving the stock circuit in the off position. Could always add a pot later if I feel its too loud

[Rangerscott]

3.3v? The fan is 12v.