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LiquorandGunFun on 15 October 2013

Its in a sealed box, it might help to put some ventilation in that. And at least it didnt have to get sent in for repairs for 3-4 weeks.



 

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Nem on 15 October 2013

Its a warning light, it isnt a death light. So your PS4 is not gonna die aslong as you do something about the overheating.



gooch_destroyer on 15 October 2013

small ass case for a console.



JEMC on 15 October 2013

It's good to know that it has safe measures against overheating.

Clearly the ones that decided to use that stand had no idea of what they were doing.



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Grandia on 15 October 2013

Thats one of the reasons why I never would buy a PS4 at releas. Microsoft obviously learnd from the RROD issues , they made the xbox one big with a big cooling system but the PS4 with almost the same hardware as the xbox one is placed at a way smaller space.

I can wait anyways, the next gen systems and their games don't excite me that much at this point so there is no need to buy one early. I will wait two years and than the systems sure will be saver than they are at releas, they will be cheaper and there will be better games.



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Vashyo on 15 October 2013

that case doesn't even seem to be ventilated, the heat just builds up inside until it's a real sauna.



Ashadian on 15 October 2013
selnor1983 said:
drkohler said:
selnor1983 said:

You seem to have decided to cut the part that follows.

"Having ESRAM costs very little power and has the opportunity to give you very high bandwidth. You can reduce the bandwidth on external memory - that saves a lot of power consumption"

Why did you cut that?

Anyway look, Obviously the PS4 shutdown and couldnt be used for awhile due to heat.

I intentionally cut out the second part because it makes the whole statement even more ridiculous. Fact is, MS went with high speed ddr3 ram (2166MHz, not the cheaper and less power hungry 1600MHz ram). Obviously they thought they would need the hotter ram/higher bandwidth. And adding the esram obviously increases power consumption further...

Just read the data sheets. The memory in the PS4 uses LESS power than the memory in the XBox One. Had Sony gone with 4G of ram only, maybe the equation would be the other way round (didn't check, too lazy and it doesn't matter anyways).

And what do you mean by "couldnt be used for awhile due to heat"?
Two seconds is now awhile? I don't know how long it takes to retrain the gddr5 chips and get everything else running again, but two seconds of waiting seems like an excellent trade off if it saves the PS4 from a self destruct. I'd call that excellent engineering foresight.

What I would be more interested in is knowing whether the PS4 saved the state of the machine (eg you can continue playing the game where you sort of "left") before shutting down or whether it was an emergency shutdown (like on overheating pc graphics cards).

These are custom designed boxes. Completely different.

Id rather trust an engineer of said product. 

But look, every single event has every single type of console in a glass box. Xbox One, Ps2, Ps3, Xbox 360 etc etc. 

Something happened to this PS4 heat or otherwise. Being in a glass box isnt unusual to PS4 at these events. 

Bottom line is. I hope the early adopters are fine.

The Engineer of said product didn't design the power consumption on the DDR3 or the GDDR5. Its a well Known fact that GDDR5 uses less power than the DDR3 MS are using in the X1. There is no debate about this as its fact. Go on Hynix website or google the power draw for high speed DDR3 and GDDR5? Just because a MS engineer says something doesn't make it right or believable.



FATALITY on 15 October 2013
czecherychestnut said:
Ok, so the actual story is 'PS4 placed in a small glass box gave a thermal warning which reset upon opening up said glass box' and this somehow = Sony's RROD?

what? clearly is the small case. you can put the xbone in a small box and none of that will happen.



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Dark_Feanor on 15 October 2013
kowenicki said:
Gotta laugh at how GAF have the thread headed up for this and how they are discussing it. Soooo transparent.


I wasn´t able to find the GAF thread.

Any way, it seems to be a Red Light of Serius Warning. No big deal if the console can recover by its own or if its a very rare occurence.



dsgrue3 on 15 October 2013

This is a nice, actually.

PS3 didn't give you any warning when it was getting too hot, just shut itself off. My laptop is the same way.