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Wonktonodi on 24 March 2010
Icyedge said:
Hoops84 said:
I've had 2 PS3's since my first purchase slightly after release. The first one died almost 2 years in, not even taking the best care of it. I think I moved twice in that span. Always had my intercooler on it in those early PS3 days, you'd be stupid not to. Now my 2nd PS3 is running smooth after years still. Oh and my first one was replaced through the best buy warranty I purchased at the time of purchase. You'd be pretty stupid to purchase an expensive system and not buy the in store warranty and hope to only rely on the manufactures warranty, although it is quite good and quite reliable. You must be throwing your PS3's off of rooftops. Or you just fail at life. My guess... All of the above.

LOL, actually its the other way around, always purchasing warranty on your stuff will result in a much higher price than paying for the reparation you may encounter. In store warranty is about 50% profit, trust me ;). You would be better off not taking them, unless your unable to leave a couple of hundreads in your bank account to take care of reparation if problems arise. Sure if I would be selling you an appliance right now I wouldnt have the same speech ;) lol.

yeah but then again $500 in repairs in 9 months is a bit less than a store warenty. 



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Wonktonodi on 24 March 2010
sniper936 said:
damn, what are u doing with your PS3? i have the old 40GB from along time ago and it hasn't died since. I replaced the HD with a 250GB, but thats just cause I wanted more space, nothing is wrong with the other HD.

I play games on it.   Sometimes dvds or blu rays and sometimes other media.  Have brought it to friends houses a few times.  So i think all I did was bring the poor things into the presence of my really bad luck with electronics. 



Icyedge on 24 March 2010
Squilliam said:
Almost all 60GB PS3s will die before the generation is out. Get a slim, may as well wait and get a 45nm RSX/Cell version for lower heat/power use and higher reliability.

Im not sure, I play a lot, have it since release and works perfectly fine. Most people wouldnt play as much as me, I also use it for blu ray and music, its on all the time. The other person I know with 60 GB, still doesnt have any problem. The time my PS3 was on would probably represent at least 10 years for a normal gamer who doesnt use it all the time for movies and music. Your assumption doesnt seem right. Actually, considering the data we have (about 1% failure rate), the best assumption to make is the contrary. What is the point in making extremist comment like that?



Wonktonodi on 24 March 2010
Icyedge said:
Squilliam said:
Almost all 60GB PS3s will die before the generation is out. Get a slim, may as well wait and get a 45nm RSX/Cell version for lower heat/power use and higher reliability.

Im not sure, I play a lot, have it since release and works perfectly fine. Most people wouldnt play as much as me, I also use it for blu ray and music, its on all the time. The other person I know with 60 GB, still doesnt have any problem. The time my PS3 was on would probably represent at least 10 years for a normal gamer who doesnt use it all the time for movies and music. Your assumption doesnt seem right. Actually, considering the data we have (about 1% failure rate), the best assumption to make is the contrary. What is the point in making extremist comment like that?

maybe he was trying to make me not feel so bad since I have such bad luck with them



Icyedge on 24 March 2010
Wonktonodi said:
Icyedge said:
Hoops84 said:
I've had 2 PS3's since my first purchase slightly after release. The first one died almost 2 years in, not even taking the best care of it. I think I moved twice in that span. Always had my intercooler on it in those early PS3 days, you'd be stupid not to. Now my 2nd PS3 is running smooth after years still. Oh and my first one was replaced through the best buy warranty I purchased at the time of purchase. You'd be pretty stupid to purchase an expensive system and not buy the in store warranty and hope to only rely on the manufactures warranty, although it is quite good and quite reliable. You must be throwing your PS3's off of rooftops. Or you just fail at life. My guess... All of the above.

LOL, actually its the other way around, always purchasing warranty on your stuff will result in a much higher price than paying for the reparation you may encounter. In store warranty is about 50% profit, trust me ;). You would be better off not taking them, unless your unable to leave a couple of hundreads in your bank account to take care of reparation if problems arise. Sure if I would be selling you an appliance right now I wouldnt have the same speech ;) lol.

yeah but then again $500 in repairs in 9 months is a bit less than a store warenty. 

Taking extented warranty on every device you purchase would result in way more than 500$. The average say your paying 50%-60% on your extended warranty in store profit, thats a fact. Youre better not take any and pay for your reparation when you need too. Between, I was actually defending you, he said you were stupid to not get any warranty.



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sniper936 on 24 March 2010

suck to have your luck, lol. but i'd recomend replacing your HD. If the problem is overheating, it is usually solder dripping off the HD, ending the circuit, forcing the PS3 to not work. This is mainly the problem with the 360 and the RROD, but PS3s usually dont haver this problem as much, especially what the Slim owners say. You can buy any laptop size internal hard drives and swap it in. If its a 2.5" HD then it can work. If its 3.5" just like a PC HD then it won't, but you can pick up a 2.5" 320GB for under $100 now a days.



ownageexpress on 24 March 2010

Buy a slim my fat 80gb lasted almost a year then the blueray drive broke.



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Wonktonodi on 24 March 2010
Icyedge said:
Wonktonodi said:
Icyedge said:
Hoops84 said:
I've had 2 PS3's since my first purchase slightly after release. The first one died almost 2 years in, not even taking the best care of it. I think I moved twice in that span. Always had my intercooler on it in those early PS3 days, you'd be stupid not to. Now my 2nd PS3 is running smooth after years still. Oh and my first one was replaced through the best buy warranty I purchased at the time of purchase. You'd be pretty stupid to purchase an expensive system and not buy the in store warranty and hope to only rely on the manufactures warranty, although it is quite good and quite reliable. You must be throwing your PS3's off of rooftops. Or you just fail at life. My guess... All of the above.

LOL, actually its the other way around, always purchasing warranty on your stuff will result in a much higher price than paying for the reparation you may encounter. In store warranty is about 50% profit, trust me ;). You would be better off not taking them, unless your unable to leave a couple of hundreads in your bank account to take care of reparation if problems arise. Sure if I would be selling you an appliance right now I wouldnt have the same speech ;) lol.

yeah but then again $500 in repairs in 9 months is a bit less than a store warenty. 

Taking extented warranty on every device you purchase would result in way more than 500$. The average say your paying 50%-60% on your extended warranty in store profit, thats a fact. Youre better not take any and pay for your reparation when you need too. Between, I was actually defending you, he said you were stupid to not get any warranty.

Yeah he was wrong to call me stupid also since I bout it used on ebay so no warenties there.  Plus even if it had been a year long warenty to begin with it would have been fine.  Yes I agree getting warenties on everytihng would cost more than I could posibly save.  But it would make some sence on a ps3 depending on the price I pay for it and how long it covers.  Then again had I bought it new with a warenty.  I would have payed 540 for the system in 2007 plus another 300 for the 6 games that I had with it plus however much the warenty would have been so close to $900 for all that I got.  I payed $440 for it all so a savings of $460 -$324 for the repairs and I'm still up by $136 if I had baught it all new with a warenty.   Now even if I had had the warenty would it have covered all the times the system died?  The first one was within 2 years of getting the system.  The secend one was just past that and the 3rd is 90days after.  So if after each repair it were to have extended the warenty a bit I wouldn't have paid a thing for repairs.  If it were to stop a 2 years no matter what I'd be out the money for 1 repair anyway and 2 if I weren't able to have gotten sony to be nice for this 3rd one. 



Wonktonodi on 24 March 2010
sniper936 said:

suck to have your luck, lol. but i'd recomend replacing your HD. If the problem is overheating, it is usually solder dripping off the HD, ending the circuit, forcing the PS3 to not work. This is mainly the problem with the 360 and the RROD, but PS3s usually dont haver this problem as much, especially what the Slim owners say. You can buy any laptop size internal hard drives and swap it in. If its a 2.5" HD then it can work. If its 3.5" just like a PC HD then it won't, but you can pick up a 2.5" 320GB for under $100 now a days.

well it's little late this time but I very well might get a larger hard drive for my next one. 



ShadowSnake on 24 March 2010
chocoloco said:
Do you play it everyday for more than six hours a day because that is outragous? I even dumped beer on my 360 a week after buying it and it never broke. Weird.

while so many 360's were dying, here's the story of "the little (not so much) 360 that could."