PS3 Fan test

2008-04-14 10:39:35

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teek22: Add "teek22" on your PS3 fools!; +133|6861|Bromley, London

I saw this video on youtube

I have had my ps3 for a while now and never has it sounded that loud!
Do you think it is safe to do? if not what could the damages be

2008-04-14 11:11:29

#2

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6894|Finland

LOLOL that sounds exactly like my vacuum cleaner!

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2008-04-14 11:20:12

#3

heggs: Spamalamadingdong; +581|6868|New York

Don't fucking do it. I'd personally not run the risk of potentially fucking something up. Look it up on some forums before making the decision yourself.

Don't mind the title, but this article shows why we have such low failure rates on our PS3's, because a lot of work went into heat dissipation.
http://frag-cast.blogspot.com/2008/04/x … -40gb.html

Last edited by heggs (2008-04-14 11:24:42)

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2008-04-14 11:43:10

#4

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|7050|United States

Do it. It actually is a good way to blow all the dust out.

2008-04-14 11:50:38

#5

teek22: Add "teek22" on your PS3 fools!; +133|6861|Bromley, London

After posting it I realized it was a stupid Q to ask. I am not going to do it. First of all if it was good sony would have announced it a long time ago. Secondly it just seems stupid.

2008-04-14 11:53:45

#6

Airwolf: Latter Alcoholic; +287|7200|Scotland

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=98752

2008-04-14 12:00:09

#7

r'Eeee: That's how I roll, BITCH!; +311|6928

heggs wrote:
Don't fucking do it

And that is supported by this.

2008-04-14 12:02:56

#8

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6894|Finland

r'Eeee wrote:
heggs wrote:
Don't fucking do it
And that is supported by this.

lol how the hell can faster spinning fans do this.. "this can burn your CPU and GPU,"

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2008-04-14 12:07:19

#9

r'Eeee: That's how I roll, BITCH!; +311|6928

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
r'Eeee wrote:
heggs wrote:
Don't fucking do it
And that is supported by this.
lol how the hell can faster spinning fans do this.. "this can burn your CPU and GPU,"

It's not the fun. Probably there will be more heat, hence why the fan is going faster...

2008-04-14 12:08:36

#10

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|7029|UK

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
r'Eeee wrote:
heggs wrote:
Don't fucking do it
And that is supported by this.
lol how the hell can faster spinning fans do this.. "this can burn your CPU and GPU,"

Mate of mine runs like this pretty much constantly, it really doesnt sound healthy :\ I thought it was a pretty serious heating issue, though, after five months of it doing it, his is still going fine, appart from the jet engine noise off that thing. Mine is whisper quiet.

Martyn

2008-04-14 13:47:55

#11

bf2gammer: Member; +14|6701

if it was going to burn something up, then why would sony put that mode in. It is for dust removal. Less dust means cooler running PS3

2008-04-14 14:06:39

#12

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|7048|NYC / Hamburg

bf2gammer wrote:
if it was going to burn something up, then why would sony put that mode in. It is for dust removal. Less dust means cooler running PS3

yeah, why would running your fans at full speed damage the console?

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2008-04-14 14:22:14

#13

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|7129

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
r'Eeee wrote:
heggs wrote:
Don't fucking do it
And that is supported by this.
lol how the hell can faster spinning fans do this.. "this can burn your CPU and GPU,"

I lol'd at that. The only damage I could imagine it doing if it somehow isn't intended to happen would be perhaps burning out the fans by overvolting them.

2008-04-14 14:26:28

#14

r'Eeee: That's how I roll, BITCH!; +311|6928

Why isn't it in the manual then? In the manual it says, clean it with vacuum or something like that. Obviously, it's not meant to be there.

2008-04-14 15:31:03

#15

doug1988: spank that azz.; +146|6339|Nibiru in a far away galaxy

r'Eeee wrote:
heggs wrote:
Don't fucking do it
And that is supported by this.

Yeah , the speed of those fans were loud , sounded like it was going to fly out , but a cool Ideal , maybe Sony will put that feature in the next generation of there Systems.

2008-04-14 15:46:17

#16

jamiet757: Member; +138|7102

"Now it blows all the dust out, and it is actually a Fan Test, and you can do a lot with that."

A lot? That is a bit of an overstatement. You can make sure your fans are working, that is about it.

But really, you aren't going to burn anything up, it is like booting your PC and your GPU fan and your case fans scream until your BIOS posts, it is exactly the same thing. The CPU and GPU aren't actually doing anything, so they are not creating heat.

That link said that they thought it was a failsafe trying to blow away the extra heat, but it actuality it is just a hard boot and the fan goes to 100% to test that it is functioning.

And Sony isn't going to tell you anything that wasn't originally released in the instruction manual is safe. If they said, oh yeah I guess what is okay to do, it would make them sound incompetent, so they will just deny deny deny even without a realistic reason.

Last edited by jamiet757 (2008-04-14 15:48:15)

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