Sony’s new PS5 model weighs less because it has a smaller heatsink
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#2I'm kinda worried because the reason they did that was the PS4 sounded liked a damn jet taking off everytime.
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#3“I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans.
Worst quote they coulda pulled. Literally sends the opposite message than the one its meant to convey.
Unless im even worse at english than i thought.
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#4> with rear exhaust temperatures around 3 to 5 degrees higher
Is that C or F? I'm going to assume Fahrenheit. Also, is that bad? In other words, did they measure the rest of the unit to see if it was hotter or cooler? Maybe they've directed more heat to the exhaust. Which is the whole point, after all.
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#5“I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. Worst quote they coulda pulled. Literally sends the opposite message than the one its meant to convey. Unless im even worse at english than i thought.
It was intentionally negative — Evans is the guy discovering the smaller heatsink; not Sony PR.
The full quote is “I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. “As far as I’m concerned I’d rather have a launch PS5.”
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#6“I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. Worst quote they coulda pulled. Literally sends the opposite message than the one its meant to convey. Unless im even worse at english than i thought.
It is ambiguous, but it means that this is obviously true and there's no argument about it.
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#7“I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. Worst quote they coulda pulled. Literally sends the opposite message than the one its meant to convey. Unless im even worse at english than i thought.
It's arguably an ambiguous statement.
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#8My PS5 already overheats if I play a PS5 game on it with my cabinet door closed. It was never an issue with my PS4 Slim, PS3, or XBox 360.
All in all I think it's the worst designed console I've ever had.
The curvy top makes controllers slide off while they're charging so I had to put a drawer liner on top.
The white plastic overhang seems delicate, I have no idea how I'd ever pack the thing up without breaking it.
And when mounted horizontally, the stand falls off every time I move the console. What's wrong with built in feet?
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#9“I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. Worst quote they coulda pulled. Literally sends the opposite message than the one its meant to convey. Unless im even worse at english than i thought.
Ambiguous and indirect double-negative
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#10> with rear exhaust temperatures around 3 to 5 degrees higher Is that C or F? I'm going to assume Fahrenheit. Also, is that bad? In other words, did they measure the rest of the unit to see if it was hotter or cooler? Maybe they've directed more heat to the exhaust. Which is the whole point, after all.
It's C.
In terms of if it's bad? shrug. With a smaller heat sink, the chips are almost certainly going to be hotter (dunno how much.. at least 3-5 degrees, maybe up to 10?).
Does that matter? Tech youtubers love to emphasize cooling - which is fair, I think it's important, but I also think it's overdone.
From the end-user standpoint, the question is does this meaningfully increase the rate that their unit thermal throttles (the PS5 uses boost just like modern laptops/PCs... the xbox and ps4 did not) in like... 95 (or whatever threshold) percentile shitty (so like stuffed in a cabinet with air flow being impinged) environments.
Because of boost variability, it's gonna be kinda annoying to do true side by side performance comparisons. At the very least, you'd need to swap cooling solutions on the same silicon. No idea how feasible that is with the PS5 design.