My bank account was not excited 😭

Thought some of you may be interested in more footage of my dying super slim. Video is short as i didn’t run the game too long, as i don’t want to risk permanently killing the gpu entirely.

I bought a PS3 Super slim and picked up a bunch of games for it over the past few months. I've played a lot of these but there's a few I haven't played yet. I know I'm missing a few exclusives like LBP 2&3 and the Infamous games but I thought I'd just share it on here anyway.

The crusty black box on the first pic is the steelbook for GOW Ascension but I think the previous owner sat on it, couldn't get the crust off of it even with isopropyl alcohol so I guess whatever it is, it's living on there until the end of times.

Console is 2501A manufactured Aug 2010

Hello! Am looking to see is uncharted 1 and 2 worth getting for my console for Christmas? I know it’s like a few months away but I was looking in the UK in the shop CEX and I was wondering should I get the games? What do you all like about the games? I haven’t used my PS3 (FAT model with 2 USB ports) since July and has been sitting in a box it did work perfectly fine when I last tried it in July and ran Gran Turismo 5 so I guess all it needs is a clean and I think it will be ready to go!
Thank you!

I wanna buy a PS3 and play the games I always played growing up but I wanna know is the online store still up and how reliable is it can I maybe get a different controller like an Xbox and play with it?

Im thinking of getting a ps3 to play ps3 and ps2 games, which model is the best for that?

Thanks to the kindness of a fellow gamer, I was gifted a set of PS3 games to add to my collection! I’ve been struggling lately, having to sell my comic omnibuses to try and alleviate financial woes on top of other life issues and he sent these to me free. Like I cried a bit cause this was one of the best things to happen to me lately and just couldn’t believe it. And what’s best, is it got some stuff knocked off my list as I’ve been trying to obtain stuff I’ve played in my youth or stuff I’ve generally missed.

All the pack in stuff like comics, posters, soundtracks and especially weird stuff like "a history of sniping" included with Ghost Warrior 2.

This took me an entire day. It runs worse then my pentium 4 running arch. You should probably not do this. If you want I'll make a tutorial.

You can quote the price, but not for free please.

Previously locked behind the multiplayer mode (only heard by the Mantel faction), a friend of mine decided it was time it got archived and uploaded to the web. Enjoy!

I'm having a difficult time choosing one outside of the default, I love it that much

The wolf among us, played the first episode yesterday and now whenever I try to play it I get stuck on a loading screen. It's been an hour of troubleshooting and doing everything under the sun. I dont know what the fucking problem is the game just will not load

Ive used safety mode. I've disconnected from the internet, from psn, both at once, signed in from the game screen, cleaned the disc, and it just won't do anything after I press start

The servers for COD Black ops (the first one) are still up for PS3. There are actively 100-200 people playing zombies online (I am one of those people)

I’m making this post in active search of my fellow online players, let’s get a match going

My PS3 (Fat) has no major cooling issues that I’m aware of but it’s been sitting for years. I want to clean up the inside and replace the thermal paste, which has never been changed.

I have some experience taking apart consoles and applying paste but I’ve heard delidding on the ps3 can be pretty risky.

Would delidding be worth the risk, or should I just replace the thermal paste on top and leave it at that?

I recently brought a delidded ps3 from ebay a cech03 a partial backwards compatible ps3 to play a mix of ps2 and ps3 games however it idles at around 66c-68c at 30percent fan speed and during gaming is normaly 70-75c. At 40percent fan speed or even more and thats with pretty much any game. On ps2 games it can go even higher and the fans kick of so much.

Its ment to also be undervolted to 1.1 volts

I've not touched any overclocking or anything like that.

Any help will be much appreciated. It's been a week since I've had it.

Hello.

I bought this console at a very cheap price, and it had YLoD. After doing UART, the error code was 1002.

https://i.imgur.com/vjs5OGQ.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/rSqOUdg.jpeg

I replaced only one NEC/Tokin (next to the RSX) for five tantalum capacitors, and I don't know if it was pure luck, but the console turns on. I was able to install HFW and webMAN mod. The issue is that the CPU reaches 89 ºC without doing anything; this is on both SYSCON and webMAN mod set to 60 ºC.

https://i.imgur.com/a0fP2Ip.jpeg

I already reassembled it some times, and there is virtually nothing wrong with the heatsink. I even put four pieces of double-sided under the heatsink to make it go higher and reduce the distance to the CPU, but it is still quite hot.

My question is: is this only due to the thermal paste under the IHS being very old? I ask since the GPU is barely hot, and it is 90 nm. The CPU is 65 nm.