XtremeBG said:
Okay, fair enough. All I am against is how everywhere is told that unless you change your thermal paste like every year or every 2-3 years your console is gonna die, that is all bullshit. For old console, I can see that it may do some difference, especially if it's not so reliable model. But the general acceptance of that is what I am against. It got to the point of misleading information. Me personally, I have saw what I needed to, to make my opinion on the matter, and I will continue to not change paste on tech I buy and use brand new. About the caps, yep, I can't say nothing there, this is real possibility and a problem, time ticking bomb. For my main examples specifically (my 360 and PS3) I won't do anything, because I've already got the use out of them. I've played all the games I wanted from those generation (on both systems for trophies/achievements), multiple times for most of the games, and they just outlived the usage I can take out of them. But honestly even if I had to play 5 more years on them, I wouldn't do anything, since they worked fine so long, so what are the chances of them breaking now, versus if I risk to open them, to change caps or paste. Let alone the question that if you haven't that those operation you risk even more, since you can do it wrong. To your first post that I quoted, I didn't agree that it is 100% sure @curl-6 's PS3 will die. This is what triggered me. Some people told me the same for mine when it was 10 years old and nothing happened. Of course that is not prove or evidence by it self, but the chance of his PS3 working just fine for another let's say 3 or 5 years, are decent, and you wrote it like it's 100% sure it will brake, if the paste is not changed. That may be true for some unreliable units such as the first FAT units or even the first slims which also brake a lot. But for good revisions, it's not exactly mandatory. It's nice of course, but even without it, his PS3 have a good chance of working for couple of years more. He can also checks regularly his fan speeds and temperatures. That is good sign he can follows. And by the way, I have checked the temps of my PS3, it runs cool enough for both CPU and GPU for now at least. About the longevity of the systems, where did you get the info that the systems brake after 5-7 years, were there some reports or what ? |
Well, I didn't mean to imply that paste should be changed every 3 years. That's silly. Every 5-10 years should be fine, depending on use and how dry your climate is. Sounds to me like Curl only uses his PS3 very sparingly anyway so it should be fine for a few more years.
