[jyouji]

You should be able to cut a small hole in the case just under the fan to improve airflow over the heatsinks. You can also try and source a fan with more blades than the one you currently have, 19 blade is the highest for fats iirc. These will be a deal quieter while pushing the same amount of air. 15 blades are the most common I think.

On watercooling, I'm planning to wc a 40gb soon as well. Here's a rough list of the parts I've got planned, granted I've gotten a better pump and radiator for much cheaper so far. The res is more for showing off, you can get cheap res for something like $30.
http://i.imgur.com/S5UfS.png

Realistically, you're probably looking at around 250 if buying everything new and cheaping out on parts. Mainly because you'll be cooling the cell and the rsx as opposed to cheap kits that are only meant to cool one thing.

Originally Posted by TizzyT Hmm don't know about everyone else but i use acetone to remove thermal compound. As for cooling mods, I have been looking into that too. I plan on water cooling my system if not my original plan of using peltiers.

Peltiers have never been any efficient in cooling a system, heat output is just too great. They're good fun in small doses but nothing you should be using in a regular machine.

[Dolenc]

Well with water cooling you will still need some kind of airflow through the motherboard, cpu and gpu arent the only things getting hot (it will be a bit cooler because less heat transmited from the two on to the motherboard).
And you also wouldnt gain much, for the money invested, water cooling makes sense when the load is high, on ps3 it isnt. Your min temp is the room temperature so you are still looking at 45-50C on core, with very good cooling(single 120mm radiator is not). Also the increase in weight, the fittings bla bla ...

I see it as a bad and unneceserry solution.

I think keeping the ps3 dust free, and making sure heat transfer is good(good contact chip-heatsink) should be more than enough to keep it cool.

[jyouji]

Watercooling isn't about need... it's about want. Anyone who has been doing it for any amount of time understands that (kits don't count...) If you just wanted it to suffice then all you need to do is what you suggested. There are still chances of YLOD occuring due to the nature of the problem no matter what you do unless you go for a reball.

The ram and the southbridge can be managed through copper sinks with some flow, you'd be crazy to try and keep everything in the original housing. A decent single rad (which an HWL SR-1 is) is more than enough for what the cell and rsx put out, it isn't that they're heat monsters, in fact well maintained fats seem to hit around 50-60C load, 90C max if they haven't been cleaned e.t.c It's that the fact that the stock heatsinks are quite poor, very analogous to using a stock cpu cooler. They don't even contain copper(!!). No amount of airflow can cool more than what a heatsink can exchange.

[cocoldacola]

I can see if he has his ps3 in some location where area wouldnt allow for good airflow this might help, or maybe if you just want silence. But in any case its really not worth it unless you just want to go "**** yeah! Watercooled ps3 b1tches!"

[SoheiKitsune]

The watercooling system looks really cool, and probably takes a lot of heat out of the system. I got my ps3 from ebay so I don't know what happened to it, but i am interested in the DIY mod that alienkid posted, but I'm unclear as to where the bottom wires (orange black and red) connect to.

Originally Posted by cocoldacola I can see if he has his ps3 in some location where area wouldnt allow for good airflow this might help, or maybe if you just want silence. But in any case its really not worth it unless you just want to go "**** yeah! Watercooled ps3 b1tches!"

lol, money is tight, way too tight for watercooling at this point. I'm in a college dorm and my ps3 has the worst overheating problems when in here, but at home the ps3 hardly ever overheats.

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by jyouji You should be able to cut a small hole in the case just under the fan to improve airflow over the heatsinks. You can also try and source a fan with more blades than the one you currently have, 19 blade is the highest for fats iirc. These will be a deal quieter while pushing the same amount of air. 15 blades are the most common I think. On watercooling, I'm planning to wc a 40gb soon as well. Here's a rough list of the parts I've got planned, granted I've gotten a better pump and radiator for much cheaper so far. The res is more for showing off, you can get cheap res for something like $30. http://i.imgur.com/S5UfS.png Realistically, you're probably looking at around 250 if buying everything new and cheaping out on parts. Mainly because you'll be cooling the cell and the rsx as opposed to cheap kits that are only meant to cool one thing. Peltiers have never been any efficient in cooling a system, heat output is just too great. They're good fun in small doses but nothing you should be using in a regular machine.

I was talking about peltier array lol. And yeah I've done some research, I'm going to do more before I make my final decision on what to do.

EDIT: Maybe we should ask @Pirate about his watercooled PS3 lol.

[SoheiKitsune]

Originally Posted by TizzyT I was talking about peltier array lol. And yeah I've done some research, I'm going to do more before I make my final decision on what to do. EDIT: Maybe we should ask @Pirate about his watercooled PS3 lol.

I saw his ps3 laptop and all I can say is:

omgiwantnao.

That is amazing and its relatively simple to build once you gather the parts, but the wiring is something that always throws me through a loop. Plus if I tried to make one my ps3 would probably explode or it wouldn't look half as nice. Oh and I have no idea how to put in a keyboard unless you connect it via usb or something.

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by SoheiKitsune I saw his ps3 laptop and all I can say is: omgiwantnao. That is amazing and its relatively simple to build once you gather the parts, but the wiring is something that always throws me through a loop. Plus if I tried to make one my ps3 would probably explode or it wouldn't look half as nice. Oh and I have no idea how to put in a keyboard unless you connect it via usb or something.

Through USB is most likely what he did. And the wiring shouldn't be too bad as long as you know where everything goes, I mean I've never made A portable PS3 laptop but given the chance (and money) I can make one no problem of course that is just me talking lol.