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Playstation 3's Self-Cleaning Feature Dangerous For The Longevity For PS3

Krunal | April 14, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 
Earlier on today you heard about the Playstation 3's self-cleaning feature. Well turns out a French website, UltimatePS3 has claimed that the PS3 Fan Test is actually HARMFUL to your PS3. The fans speeding up is said to be a fail safe trying to get the bottled up heat out of the system, which can in turn burn your CPU and GPU. This has also allegedly been confirmed by Sony.

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    Guugley | April 14, 2008
    Ah, well that's a shame, but it seemed a bit shifty anyway. Surely they can still do something like this where it doesn't affect the console in the long-run though, so the sooner the better.
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    Euraces | April 14, 2008
    "Maybe like Seproth said it has something to do with risk, if Krunal's PS3 does break, 2 things will happen, it will prove that there is risk involved, and that the policeman will find tidus04 laying dead in the ground in a few days."

    Quoted from the other article, so it seems it really is harmful, oh well.
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    kik36 | April 14, 2008
    Good thing I wasn't at home to try this.
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      Krunal | April 14, 2008
      Agreed, I'm glad that I just came back to work today and wont be with my PS3 till next Friday... though I would have killed Tidus if I had actually tried it and then read this
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    Moonrise | April 14, 2008
    This should seriously be common sense. The system isn't intended to be intentionally placed into overheat mode so you can clean it out.
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    Storm | April 14, 2008
    Get warranty and try this every day with no worries!
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    jmac353 | April 14, 2008
    BULLLLSHIT

    That makes no sense. How could maxing out the speed of your fans possibly do any harm to your hardware? This is stupid. Don't buy this. There's just no *bleep*ing way.
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      Seproth | April 15, 2008
      Normally I'd agree with you. Fan's are meant to spin so maxing them out shouldn't really be an issue.

      But, maxing out anything is never really a good idea, that coupled with the strange fact that Sony doesn't mention this ability makes me wonder. I wouldn't do it to my PS3 anyway...
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        jmac353 | April 15, 2008
        The only thing that could possibly happen would be your fan failing. There's no chance of your freaking hardware burning up. That's *bleep*ed. Your hardware would burn up overtime without the cooling but there's a small chance of your fans actually failing even so.
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          Existenz | April 15, 2008
          Yes i mean at the end of the day the fans are meant to spin that fast, they are built within that capacity and they do spin that fast when the console gets hot enough. Yes it might not do them good in the long term but the guys that found this out aren't expecting people to do this every week or every month.
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    xsynergyx | April 15, 2008
    And we trust the French because...?

    Haha, just kidding. I'm glad something like this has been added to warn the people that saw the other article and were going to try it. Yet again, we don't know who to believe.
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    StarJet | April 15, 2008
    There seems to be a bit of a confusion. It is infact OK to do it with the 40GB AFAIK. This dangerous thing is with the 60GB. Read this
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    Final Blade | April 15, 2008
    Even if your right Star, doing it in general when Sony never officially stated this is stepping into a mine field. Something bad is going to happen.

    Regardless i wasn't going to do this anyway.
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      Moonrise | April 15, 2008
      That's for the better really. Like I said, it's not exactly the best to start forcing the fail-safes into action just to clean it out.
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        Final Blade | April 16, 2008
        LMAO at all the people who did this, going to suck for them.

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