I keep forgetting to clean my PS3. Thing's gonna die on me any day now.

this is why they should have made the power brick external, and should have put better solder joints in the thing. Less heat, better connections and people wouldn't be having this problem.

I hope this doesn't happen to my PS3. I only use it for blu-ray, netflix and gaming, but I'm offloading the netflix to a new HTPC as I know it won't have these kinds of problems, and replacing a single part will be a lot cheaper if something does break.

I'm pretty sure the solder joints only overheat and deform, because the low quality thermal compound dries up rendering the cooling system almost useless

people that still have a working launch unit should replace the thermal compound with a high quality one (arctic cooling MX-2/3,...) quickly

Well with the removal of lead, all electronic components are more likely to fail and it will be many more years until they are as reliable as in the past.

my toster just died too(((
any adwais

the problem its know to be the PS2 chips, causing more heat than they should.

it's less likely to system without it.

but i read it can be avoid if u change cpu/gpu white paste. :p don't know how they call it in english

but my PS3 dont have the Ps2 chip... BC its made by emulation software... i don't think its that... packing a 90nm CPU at 3.2ghz its a bit dungerous for a small case and to keep the noise as low as possible, they have the fans running in low RPM unless the chip is melting...

the white paste is called Thermal Paste.

it does have a ps2 chip, they just removed one of them. cpu it's emulated.

As I have said numerous times before to others, vacuum the vents and disc slot, wipe it, and if all fails microwave it or turn it into a grill.

wow with all these YLOD threads and no RROD threads in the past months, it seems like it's the new plague... probably due to the population of this site though.