Took my PS3 apart ...

[Words Of Wisdom]

drkohler said:

Words Of Wisdom said:
I think the concept of doing maintenance on a console is still pretty foreign to a lot of people. Computers maybe, but with consoles I think the idea is that you should 

I'd say that removing chips and playing around with thermal paste isn't exactly "maintenance". A colleague of mine owns a PC shop and I can occationally see some of "user maintenance" results on mainboards. Sometimes funny, mostly tragic though.

I understand that.  I just put a new computer together so I'm recently acquainted with how delicate it can be (though it's much easier today than apparently it was even 5 years ago).  Still, if not "maintenance" what would you call it?