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http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation-3-Slim/1121/2

Click on the link and read, to much information and huge pictures to post, and the resizing doesn't work for me.

Important notes

- Slim contains a huge 12V, 1.3A monster fan, Sony want to keep this thing cool.

- Blu-Ray Drive still large

- Really good build quality

If someone could post the main pic then plz do.



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it looks very well build indeed



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Slim is still dual voltage right?? nice fan btw.



 

I want that fan, it makes it look like one humongous GPU.



Nice, this makes me want to get a PS3 slim now



The exhaust of the heat sink leads directly into the power supply...WTF!?!?

not only that but the in intake of the power supply looks like it's some what blocked by the tightly placed components...again WTF!?!?!

I want to see thermal images when the PS3 slim is being pushed, that was I can see how effective this new cooling design and configuration is.

I know Sony are really good with hardware, but it's common sense not to use the hot air coming out of the heat sink to try cool your power supply which in it's self is producing heat....unless the power supply has really high thermal properties and is in fact cooled by this design...still I don't like the idea, which is why I love my phat PS3.



Destroyer_of_knights said:
The exhaust of the heat sink leads directly into the power supply...WTF!?!?

not only that but the in intake of the power supply looks like it's some what blocked by the tightly placed components...again WTF!?!?!

I want to see thermal images when the PS3 slim is being pushed, that was I can see how effective this new cooling design and configuration is.

I know Sony are really good with hardware, but it's common sense not to use the hot air coming out of the heat sink to try cool your power supply which in it's self is producing heat....unless the power supply has really high thermal properties and is in fact cooled by this design...still I don't like the idea, which is why I love my phat PS3.

Sony's Engineers are some of the best in the world. I Would highly expect that we are not seeing everything here. as an engineer I too was confused when I first saw it, but I'm positive they've done the stress tests and are sure that cooling is adequate. Ignoring that, wow. What an incredibly well built and designed machine. They really make great use of the space. I've never seen such a high quality setup in a console before and I've taken almost everything apart. To bad my 80gb PS3 fat is already great enough for me,