Nyko inercooler TS

[SkantDragon]

Originally Posted by highdef monster

I opened mine twice so far and cleaned all dust,don't hear fan kicking in,but what worries me is when i put hand by the vents it feels realy hot and i read lot of reports in this forum about 60 gig launch date models being bricked

The PS3 expells a lot of heat under normal operation. That heat you feel from the vents is heat which has been ejected, not retained. The PS3 has a very efficient cooling design. Feel around elsewhere on your PS3 and notice that other parts of it like the Blu-ray drive bay aren't hot at all.

As for original 60 gig PS3's bricking after two years, what you're seeing is a few people on the forums who have been unlucky getting together and trying to whip up a panic based on a small amount of anecdotal evidence.

There are millions of original 60 gig PS3's out there. If a substantial percentage of them were failing right now, you wouldn't just see some forum messages about it. There would be an overwhelming flood of them.

Remember, this is the internet. You're always going to hear from the 1% that had trouble. And they're going to yell loudly at every possible opportunity in order to make themselves appear to be the majority.

My own original 60 gig continues to chug along without so much as a hiccup. And it's been in constant use every day since I bought it. There can't be many PS3s out there which have as much wear and tear as mine. But it continues to show no signs of it.

Don't buy into these forum scares. Just do regular maintenance on your PS3 (ie. clean it), and it should last a long time.