Comments on: New PS3 Hardware Less Prone to YLOD

By: John Snr

John Snr — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:45:24 +0000

I got ps3 slim 250gb 10 months ago & got dreaded ylod. I always take care not to make improper shut downs & ps3 is stored in well ventilated area…luckily still in warranty, so phoned Sony helpline (Sunday), and new ps3 being delivered (Tuesday). Really concerns me if it were to happen again. I’ve got 3 month extended warranty. Definitely thinking of insuring it for future tho invade it happens again, as I’m nort very confident now in Sony!!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:46:54 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong…this is all AFAICR. I think the CPU in the first gen slim was 45nm and the GPU was 65nm (both down from 90nm in the fat), which was almost a 50% drop in power consumption and was huge improvement (playing a BD in a fat used about 160w), playing it in a 1st gen slim made it use about 80-90w. Now they have brought the GPU down in line with the CPU to make them both 40nm (not 45nm). This has caused a further 15% less power to be used (15% more less than the slim, not the fat)…..so playing a BD is now in the low 70w’s.

I’ve only just bought my slim, from the last batch in the stores of the 1st gens – I was a bit miffed as the lower bills would have been nice. But then I remember a couple of hardware revisions in PS2 that reduced costs that I never liked….like going from a power brick (nothing like the 360′s) to an internal PSU (your PSU goes on the earlier one, you simply buy a new AC cable)…..and other less publicised changes were simply Sony finding cheaper parts to stick inside. So as my current slim is fine (cool and quiet), and YLOD is virtually unheard of in slims, I shall not be too worried I missed the new hardware revision. Although it should be fine.

By: EdEN

EdEN — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:46:22 +0000

Hahaha, that sure went on for a while. 15% less power consumption translate to a lower electricity bill at the end of the month. My Slim PS3 got heavy use during march due to some gaming escapades and several Bluray movies watched and my bill jumped $15 from february to march.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:27:06 +0000

lol, I didn’t mean to sound like I was implying that. It was just a heads up to those who might have. Some major hardware changes don’t even have to affect the games. Look at the Slim. It used less power and was more efficient and ran cooler, which translates to a performance upgrade (since efficiency could fall under a category of performance), but not a game performance upgrade (which is rare, if it even happens, BUT it has happened on the firmware side of things a while back, where 70MB of additional memory was opened up due to less resources being used for the XMB, etc, but that’s on a software level, as the hardware remained the same and was essentially retrofitted on all older consoles as well). I never said that the drop in power consumption meant an increase in game performance.

By: Emrah

Emrah — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:03:07 +0000

This might go on forever, lol..

“Since this is only a minor hardware change, it doesn’t improve on game performance” -> This sounds as if you are expecting an improvement on game performance somewhere down the line, or at least implying that a game performance improvement is possible. When you say increased game performance, I understand games running faster / smoother; that’s where I don’t agree.

Since the revision comes with 15% less power usage, than you should call it a game performance upgrade, if you think performance per watt increase means a performance upgrade, since it will be using less power when playing games. But you don’t do it either, I’m at a loss