Req: PS3 cooling 101
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:43 am
Hey Folks,
Can someone please provide some info about the PS3's cooling ?
Recently, while watching a Blu-Ray DVD, around the midpoint of the movie, I heard a loud roaring noise, come to find out, it was coming from the PS3. Seems like the fan inside was about to take off. My PS3 is stored horizontally in a open area, on top of a shelf. I cannot change its sitting orientation so it could be sitting vertically.
On the PS3, I'd like to know where are the air intakes, and where does the unit exhausts the air ?
Reason I ask is that while I noticed a lot of hot air being exhausted from the back side of the unit, I saw some pics on the web which let me to believe the air is also exhausted from the right side of the unit as well though I felt no hot air coming out from that direction.
Ultimately, I'm interested in rigging up some sort of a cooling process to the PS3. I prefer not to use the built in USB port to draw any power from it. I have a very quiet small, 4 1/2" AC fan, if I could utilize that, it would be great.
Thanks !
Can someone please provide some info about the PS3's cooling ?
Recently, while watching a Blu-Ray DVD, around the midpoint of the movie, I heard a loud roaring noise, come to find out, it was coming from the PS3. Seems like the fan inside was about to take off. My PS3 is stored horizontally in a open area, on top of a shelf. I cannot change its sitting orientation so it could be sitting vertically.
On the PS3, I'd like to know where are the air intakes, and where does the unit exhausts the air ?
Reason I ask is that while I noticed a lot of hot air being exhausted from the back side of the unit, I saw some pics on the web which let me to believe the air is also exhausted from the right side of the unit as well though I felt no hot air coming out from that direction.
Ultimately, I'm interested in rigging up some sort of a cooling process to the PS3. I prefer not to use the built in USB port to draw any power from it. I have a very quiet small, 4 1/2" AC fan, if I could utilize that, it would be great.
Thanks !