Hello Everyone,
I'm new to this website, and a moderate newbie to hardware modding, at least on the ps3.
Recently I have been using a PS3 Fat 60gb, and it has been freezing and overheating repeatedly. I opened it up and saw that the thermal compound on the heat sinks are pretty much gone, so I am planning to purchase Arctic Silver 5 and putting that on there. Question about that, should I use rubbing alcohol to get rid of the old thermal compound and then apply arctic silver or is there some other way I should go about it? And to apply arctic silver i put a small dot on the center of the heat sink and then spread it with a credit card or the like. I am asking this to make sure I am not doing anything to kill my ps3.
Furthermore, are there any easy cooling mods that I can put on my ps3 to try to head off the YLOD? I have been looking around here and I was wondering if there were any that were highly suggested to cool down the ps3 for a moderate cost?
Thanks for your time.
I'm new to this website, and a moderate newbie to hardware modding, at least on the ps3.
Recently I have been using a PS3 Fat 60gb, and it has been freezing and overheating repeatedly. I opened it up and saw that the thermal compound on the heat sinks are pretty much gone, so I am planning to purchase Arctic Silver 5 and putting that on there. Question about that, should I use rubbing alcohol to get rid of the old thermal compound and then apply arctic silver or is there some other way I should go about it? And to apply arctic silver i put a small dot on the center of the heat sink and then spread it with a credit card or the like. I am asking this to make sure I am not doing anything to kill my ps3.
Furthermore, are there any easy cooling mods that I can put on my ps3 to try to head off the YLOD? I have been looking around here and I was wondering if there were any that were highly suggested to cool down the ps3 for a moderate cost?
Thanks for your time.