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IllegalPaladin on 22 January 2010
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Words Of Wisdom said:
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?

I think that perhaps he misunderstood. The RSX and Cell, like the Xbox 360 CPU and GPU, aren't connected to the motherboard like the pins on the CPU's for computers if I'm not mistaken. Removing these would be asking for trouble unless you had the tools and skills to reball them.

What the OP said he did was take apart the PS3 (exposing the motherboard) to remove the heatsync where he cleaned off the surfaces of the heatsync and Cell/RSX and reapplied the thermal paste. Nothing to do with removing the chips and I'd say that qualifies as maintenance.