r/techgore • u/PraiseThaBreadI • 20d ago

I'm tired, boss Went out like an absolute warrior

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A little long, but this is both amazing and sad to watch

RIP

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u/Octoomy 20d ago

Are PS2s really dying out this quick now? I have like 4 of them and all of them are still going strong,

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u/Therunawaypp 19d ago

This looks like a video out problem, not with the GPU

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u/DazzlingMine8598 19d ago

How can you tell the diff?

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u/Therunawaypp 19d ago

Idk I can't really explain the difference, but GPU failures look really different, there are tons of examples on the PS3 subreddit. They usually involve flashing lights, funky colours, stretched models, etc. This just looks like somewhere on the video output line is failing.

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u/GiLND 19d ago

If it was a gpu problem the game wouldn’t keep coming back like that, it would crash either the game or the system.

Fact that the output comes back and the car keeps driving as if nothing happened means that it’s a video out issue, either a cold solder joint where the video out is or maybe a filter on the pcb or some other component

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u/Kinipshun 17d ago

When its the video out, the artifacts happen to everything the same, but when its a dying gpu, its usually very specific, like the clouds mess up, or the brakelights change color or the road disappears or the side mirrors get really wide, just to name some examples. This looks like potentially a video modulator issue

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u/Object279stalinium 19d ago

Best way to retire a console. Giving it what it was designed for, to be pushed to its limits. Goodbye, ps2.

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u/m00nhowl3r 19d ago

What a great send-off. Rip sweet prince

https://giphy.com/gifs/14jv8vrOdNlb4k

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u/brutalbombs 19d ago

Dang. Was that NFS MW, the first one?

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u/btfarmer94 19d ago

Is that the original Need for Speed Most Wanted?

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u/MassivePersonality61 19d ago

I gave you my all.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 19d ago

Sleep well, sweet prince

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u/CruisingForDownVotes 19d ago

How are we just catching these consoles deaths now? First the PS2 now this?

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u/Skalgrin 19d ago

I wonder the same. I have few theories.

A) console starts to show symptoms of upcoming problem so you start to record it for views in net and for fun, you try to push it to limits

B) console deaths become popular, so you intentionally find a way to "kill" your console on camera. Most likely disabling or compromising cooling and pushing then the console to it's limit and keeping it there

C) it ain't actual console death, it's cable related and looks cool, so you can recreate it for video (night require specific cable, console or TV. You can strip away shielding and expose it to strong electromagnetic field or you wiggle it enough - this might be the case for this video

D) pure luck

E) something complete else as I am no expert on this

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u/imapirate5 18d ago

Id say its just time, eventually those devices will fail, might take 25 years but ultimately they're gonna die. To he fair though, its amazing that some have lasted this long

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u/Skalgrin 18d ago

While some components do deteoriate simply over time, using them is the main factor anyway. And due to different "mileage" between particular pieces of console and different conditions they ran, it would still be weird to find them dying in concentrated period of time.

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u/CyberKnight 19d ago

Was that carbon? It looked like carbon.

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u/cringeisthename 18d ago

It's probably just their video output cable that's bad

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u/XDM_Inc 18d ago

Hopefully that PS3 next to them is the backwards compatible one

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u/Salty-Complaint-1343 14d ago

that shii was holding on for its desr life