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My PS3

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 Oh. Hi again.
 Oh. Hi again.
I'm concerned about my 60 gig PS3. 
 
Ever since it broke roughly last year, my concern for my PS3 has rose higher than my 360. I'm on my 3rd 360, but I don't get the impression that it's going to be breaking anytime soon. Say what you will about Microsoft for selling us garbage hardware, but at least the system they have in place for getting it fixed hasn't failed me yet.
 
(If it has failed you, I do not care, you are not important.)
O_O
 
I've noticed the fan on my 60 gig seems to go loud over a certain amount of play-time. A few days ago, the highest fan setting seemed to kick-in: That scared me.
Terrified that my PS3 is actually louder than my 360, I quickly cleaned it with compressed air. A more thorough study of the placement of my PS3 created more "discoveries". Apparently, I wasn't aware that a heat vent was pumping hot air into the corner where my PS3 was residing. I always thought my PS3 had enough ventilation, but another cleaning and moving the system out of the corner proved otherwise. The fan still was kicking in at inappropriate times though, so I followed more advice online and cut 
styrofoam blocks for each corner of the system to sit on. Sometimes a higher fan setting kicks-in, but it quickly dissipates. 
 
I'm concerned about YLOD.
I've been uploading my saves on the cloud server after each play-session. Before you ask, yes, I am a PS+ Subscriber, and I enjoy my multiple free titles that Sony seems hell-bent on giving me.
 
Regardless, I kinda feel like I'm in a pickle. 
I know Sony, if they had the opportunity, would cut-off support for the early models at the drop of a hat. I've heard about disassembling the PS3 and cleaning it, but I don't feel confident with voiding my warranty. 
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 Oh. Hi again.
 Oh. Hi again.
I'm concerned about my 60 gig PS3. 
 
Ever since it broke roughly last year, my concern for my PS3 has rose higher than my 360. I'm on my 3rd 360, but I don't get the impression that it's going to be breaking anytime soon. Say what you will about Microsoft for selling us garbage hardware, but at least the system they have in place for getting it fixed hasn't failed me yet.
 
(If it has failed you, I do not care, you are not important.)
O_O
 
I've noticed the fan on my 60 gig seems to go loud over a certain amount of play-time. A few days ago, the highest fan setting seemed to kick-in: That scared me.
Terrified that my PS3 is actually louder than my 360, I quickly cleaned it with compressed air. A more thorough study of the placement of my PS3 created more "discoveries". Apparently, I wasn't aware that a heat vent was pumping hot air into the corner where my PS3 was residing. I always thought my PS3 had enough ventilation, but another cleaning and moving the system out of the corner proved otherwise. The fan still was kicking in at inappropriate times though, so I followed more advice online and cut 
styrofoam blocks for each corner of the system to sit on. Sometimes a higher fan setting kicks-in, but it quickly dissipates. 
 
I'm concerned about YLOD.
I've been uploading my saves on the cloud server after each play-session. Before you ask, yes, I am a PS+ Subscriber, and I enjoy my multiple free titles that Sony seems hell-bent on giving me.
 
Regardless, I kinda feel like I'm in a pickle. 
I know Sony, if they had the opportunity, would cut-off support for the early models at the drop of a hat. I've heard about disassembling the PS3 and cleaning it, but I don't feel confident with voiding my warranty. 
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Get a slim and save the old one for upscaled ps2 backward compatibility

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I don't own a PS3, and the only problem I've had with a console crapping out on me was when my Wii refused to read discs, so instead, allow me to make this comment: why are all your blogs related to the Hamburglar page? Is it some type of trend among bloggers to associate their blogs to one particular page, even when it isn't too relevant?

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@Video_Game_King:  Holy crap! FINALLY! Someone notices and asks!!!! 
...
You win nothing. 
 -_- 

Honestly, I have no answer to give you. I just started to do that and have become consistent. I wish there was a more complex story to why, it's just a thing.
 
@Valkyr: Perhaps later. I wouldn't mind purchasing another PS3, I just need the cash first.
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I have a ps3 fat as well, we check it every so often to make sure it has proper ventilation though I'm sure it could use a good dusting. So since you brought this up I'm gunna ask my dad to take it out back and hit it with some air to clean it, i think my sister's Xbox would benefit from that as well. (seriously that sucker is LOUD it sounds like it's dying at all times) I need to get on ps3+ to make sure if I ever do YLOD I have back ups.

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Yeah, you probably have reason to be worried. :(

My old PS3 (40GB) started off with the same thing, the fan was kicking into that maximum-hyper space mode even when it was just sitting at the XMB doing nothing strenuous, which worried me because before that it wouldn't do that even when I was playing a game. It always stayed in 'just chillin'' mode.

I thought, well okay it's probably dirty. I cleaned and even throughly vacuumed all the vents and the fan -- did everything short of taking it apart and nothing changed. Eventually it started doing other weird things, like the internet connection to it dropping out every once in awhile for seemingly no reason, and the audio being fed to my surround sound started to have a horrid buzzing noise (which got progressively louder as time went on) even when I bought new cables.

One day it just flat out stopped working, and I bought a Slim to replace it. So yeah, it amazed me how my PS3 just slowly died like that, like all of its organs were shutting down one by one or something. At least when my Xbox 360's died (on my 3rd also) they just quick blaze of glory, and I didn't have to sit there and watch it slowly kick the bucket for a year.

(Seriously, keep backing up those saves 'cause its gonna be worth it when that PS3 implodes.)

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@Portis:  So far so good, I don't want to jinx myself but what I've currently done has helped considerably. Fans kick-in, and I can hear the disk spinning during big loads and booting up, but so far it hasn't been at disturbing levels. 

I've read and researched multiple different websites, and their fixing services. If something explodes, I'm defiantly considering shipping it to someone that's not Sony. I've already had them fix it once, and in my eyes: $200 was more than enough for them to get everything running at tip-top shape.

I'm actually considering doing the same thing with my 360 (propping it up), which runs loud no matter what you do to it. :P