[steliosaa]

I am not a PS3 noob! I have been following the scene for a lot of time and even helped in translating some of the open source projects!

• I have a Phat PS3 60GB from the 2006 with PS2 backward compatibility but also with YLOD that I sent to Sony and gave me a refurbished one back! After that it got another YLOD so I decided to save money and use a heat gun! However one of the NEC chips bubbled during the procedure and although the system OS works fine, the PS3 YLODs after boot up with the following symptoms:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awrkbxYEaRU (must read annotations!)

• I have a second Phat PS3 40GB which I got after the first one died but it was not backward compatible and no SD card slots. It also got YLOD after two years or so and I used a heatgun and reflux to fix it. It worked but after 1 week it went back to YLOD but I didn't try to fix it. I throwed it in the storage room.

• I have a third PS3 Slim which is on 3.55 Kmeaw CFW and I use it to play offline sandbox games like GTA IV and Just Cause 2

My question is, what can I do with the two old consoles which are not on the manufacturing state anymore? They are pieces of history! If I sell them now they will be sold for less than they worth, and they don't worth nothing. I don't want to spend money on reballing or risk to damage them be reflowing them. I live in Cyprus so sending it to Sony for a refubrished console is expensive for me. The oldest one has a burned NEC chip and I think it has no chance of being revived. Any suggestions? What did you do with your old YLOD consoles? I will happily read and consider your ideas!

[shadow8517]

Just sell it for parts hard drive disc drive ps3 case maybe some one will want the cell and rsx chips

[psxpetey]

part it out

[tjhooker73]

Replace the Broken parts.

[steliosaa]

Thank you guys! You helped me out a lot