| Ferrari_7861 said: Wouldn't a slimmer PS3 make it more prone to overheating? Unless they manage to shove a bigger fan in there. |
Nope. The current chasis design is designed for a 65nm RSX and 45nm Cell with a 250w PSU. With the second gen slim (CECH-2100a/b) they cut the RSX down to 40nm. With CECH-3000a/b (160GB and 320GB models) they cut the PSU down to 230w, made the fan smaller, and removed some other power draining sources (such as the lights on the front of the console). They chasis hasn't changed at all even though power consumption has dipped a ton since the original slim. Power consumption when playing games has gone down by almost 10w since the original 120GB slim. And with an integrated Cell+RSX they could cut it down even more. And Sony takes heat seriously, the PS2 slim never overheats and it has the smallest fan I've even seen (when I tore one apart). PS3 slim rarely overheats unless filled with dust and it has a 3.2GHz Cell that pours out heat and an RSX based off a crap design that also pours out heat. And it has a big SLOW fan (which is why its so quiet). They ain't gonna do a first gen X360 mistake where they just plop a fan at the back and slap 2 puny heatsinks over the CPU and GPU and hope it works.
In fact, look at this heat system:
The slim has a genious cooling design that uses 1 fan for the chips and PSU.
The fatty has an epic system as well, although its confusing:
Thats only the heasink for the RSX and Cell, its the best picture I could find. That doesn't even include the huge fan or PSU cooling system.
