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I have the slim and have had no issue with fan noise.

No fan noise?? Oh, you're a Phillies fan. You should know about lack of "fan noise" when the Bronx Bombers went yard!

Sorry, as a Yankee fan and a season ticket holder I had to take the shot. In the immortals words of Maverick:

I had the shot; there was no danger, so I took it.

Hmmm, that's certainly possible I suppose. it was indeed a surpise when I put one in and it worked and all 5.1 channels lit up on my receiver and this was for the straight audio tracks, not the video mini-documentaries.

Interesting they would actually pack Dolby song tracks along side the DVD-A tracks. I would have thought they would only do that to accompany the videos.

Still pretty happy to get 'non-live' music tracks in true surround sound for a change of pace.

On DVD-a, they usually put multi-ch hi-res (DVD-a players only), DD or DTS for all players and also frequently a stereo hi-res playable by all players.
Sony is making a point NOT to support the competing technology.

I sit about 8' from my stand that has a TV on top. The stand has two shelves with about 12" from shelf to shelf and is completely open on all sides. In the spring and winter time when I keep my house at about 60 degrees Fahrenheit the fan was annoying. In the summer time when the temp gets 75 or 80 degrees it is unbearable, which is why I would up moving the PS3 into another room.

You should look at cleaning out your PS3, and replacing the thermal compound. Especially if this is one of the much desired 60 gig models; that's something you want to keep running as long as possible. That's how mine got, the fan running audibly all the time. But now at 72° it's virtually silent. Even at the 90+° temps this past summer, it would only become slightly audible from 7' away.

My PS3 started acting up after only about 6 month or so. I guess I can try to clean it. What thermal compound are you talking about replacing though?



I have an 80 gig model.

Mine took about a year, but I didn't use it much then. There's a white, waxy stuff which goes between the CPU/GPU and the heatsink. You can get some ArctiClean, which makes removal of the old very easy (and leaves your PS3 smelling of oranges for a couple weeks). Then I used Arctic Silver 5 to replace it. You can find step-by-step instructions on how to open the PS3, and replace the thermal paste. It made a huge and immediate difference for my system. The Arctic Silver also lasts longer (it actually cures with heat) than the wax Sony used (which remelts every time the system gets hot, and eventually works its way out from between the surfaces). I did mine about 18 months ago, and it is still quite.

The 80 gig is still an older one. 2 or 4 USB ports? 4 would put it in the first or second production run, which means it uses the hottest chip they built (same as my 60).

I've got 4 USB ports, so I guess that is why my PS3 fan is going crazy. I remember when I first got the PS3 the fan never came on with Blu-ray's or games playing. It only came on when DVD's were playing for about a half hour or so. Even then the fan was whisper quiet. I actally liked when the fan came on whisper quiet like that because it covered up the slight hum that my plasma TV gives off.

Well, maybe I'll get some time to open it up and clean things up sometime soon.

- Nick

That's before they converted 2 USB ports as cooling elements...