BKK2 on 12 January 2009
| NJ5 said: Nice post BKK2, however I don't agree with this part: The size of the board isn't a problem for creating a slim PS3, the board is as slim as it can be already, what really needs to be shrunk is the cooling system. This is dependant on the size of the CPU and GPU dies. Sony are set to start production of 45nm Cell this year. Strictly speaking, that is true. However, I would think Sony would like to have it both slim and small... Making it just slim and the same area doesn't seem like a great idea. 
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True, but the current mobo is already quite a bit smaller than the original mobo, the reason it's currently just as long as the original is to accomodate the USB ports for the current case. It wouldn't be a major problem to reduce the length of the mobo by repositioning the USB ports for a different case. If you look at the pic with the three mobos you can see how much smaller the 40Gb mobo was than the original 60Gb mobo.
