Water cooling
 

The fan controller on my launch-day 60gb PS3 snuffed it last December (1 month past warranty) so I water cooled it. I also added a molex connector and a fan plug to the back of the case to run the pump and rad fan. The tacky blue fan stuck to the end of the console is temporary till I come up with something better for cooling the PSU/dics drive.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7702/dscn9202dp8.jpg

So now your PS3 is working?

Very cool, I am working on a water cooled PS3 laptop, so everything is small and internal.

Just a few questions:
How many MM fans are you using? (They look like 80 or 90's from here).

Do you know the fans CFM and dBa?

Any over heating problems with your radiator since you watercooled it?

Also you don't need to cool the BluRay and PSU, as the original fan really never cooled it anyways, and since you are watercooling it your moving heat out of the system much faster, so there really is no risk. (Air holes suffice).

Well, it always worked, just the cooling crapped out. I had to run it without the case and an aux. fan taped to the bottom of the heatsink:
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8509/dscn9038dd2.jpg
Looked bad and the fan was really loud.

@Pirate:
The rad fan is 120mm 19-39dba ?cfm and the one on the case is 80mm 19dba ?cfm. No overheating problems at all and it runs dead quiet. I mounted a speed controller inside the shroud on the rad fan (grey knob on top of shroud) and run the fan a little below half speed.
Most of the components are from a Gigabyte kit: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...%20Galaxy%20II
For the water-blocks I used a pair of Danger Den units with some retainers I machined from polyproplene: http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...e=Danger%20Den

hey tech, good to see u back in the world of PS3!!!!!
havent spoken to u since the days of proxy'ing "gripshift" and "calling all cars"

that a nice looking mod u got going on there, my fan has been REALLY noisy lately, so i have been getting onto sony about it and getting replacement console, lol. i havent got the guts to open the console up and do something like that to it, havent got the know-how either!

but again, its good to see another of the "old" members again!

Good to be back dj, tho according to your sig I think I might be getting banned here pretty quick: http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4240/dscn9204tn1.jpg

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
i think i will make an exception for u!
just remember, the leader of our site is called Pirate, so if anyone was going to get a ban for my little sig rule, he would be top of the list!

just kiddin P.

i might wanna talk to u about PS3 cooling tho, non-opening cooling, but a bit of help and advise wouldnt go amiss!

How did you secure the cooling blocks to the PS3? I used the Koolance PS3 kit.

I machined up some retainers from polyproplene. The blocks came with some #4-40 studs for mounting, so I drilled the original heat-sink shoulder screws and tapped them out to match:
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/3383/dscn9205vo6.jpg

Did you use a CNC router?