PS5 Exploded by iFixit: PlayStation 5 Repair Guide

December 15, 2020 Matt Mills Hardware, News 0

PS5 Exploded by iFixit

It was to be expected that iFixit would make one of its famous explorations with one of the most desired hardware of the year. We are obviously talking about the PlayStation 5 , the latest Sony console that today is impossible to find on the market, and whose design has surprised by its enormous size. But, does it hide any more surprises?

Disassembling the PlayStation 5

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Although Sony already took care of doing the work in its own way, surely many users expected an even more exhaustive review like the one that the people of iFixit are used to. The result is as always magnificent, since as a step-by-step exploding guide, they offer us a complete follow-up of all the steps necessary to disassemble a PS5 piece by piece in case we need to repair it.

So is it easy to repair a PS5? The final score published by iFixit is 7 out of 10, and the note comes after evaluating its comfortable removable housing system, the number of replaceable modules that are hidden inside and the ingenious dust extraction system that will avoid future ventilation problems. . The negative note is put by the numerous security screws that will make things difficult at the domestic level, or the use of liquid metal as an extreme conductor to dissipate the temperature of the processor.

Lowering the temperature with liquid metal

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Used by the most extreme modders, liquid metal compound paste is a solution increasingly used by those who want to control high temperatures in overclock settings. That is the solution that Sony has decided to include when it comes to cooling its CPU, to which it has also added a foam padded mesh that keeps the liquid metal in place to prevent leaks.

However, the liquid metal serves to capture the maximum possible heat from the CPU, but not to expel it, and that is where the huge copper heatsink comes into play that, unlike the Xbox Series X and its vapor chamber, it prefers bet on the classic distribution of tubes and grids to cool the inside of the machine.

And what about the noises?

If you have come to this part looking for the solution or the origin of the PlayStation 5 noises, we regret to tell you that at the moment iFixit has not been able to find anything related. No trace of power supply hum or fan noise issues, so there is currently no localized problem beyond a rare case where a missing sticker caused unusual fan hum.