PlayStation 5 Teardown: up-close and personal, console uses liquid metal TIM
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A M D BugBear
Very interesting about the liquid metal tim part.
So in regards about the gpu, is it with the cpu? Judging from the video, seems like its 2 in one, correct me if I am wrong here.
Looks good, surprised to see a tear down this early, Thanks a bunch for sharing.
Fediuld
PS5 like the upcoming Xbox use a custom APU.
Like those you can buy from the stores or found in laptops. But much more powerful one.
anticupidon
Well, IF sometimes I will think to buy a console, that's the one.
Ease of Dissassembly - check
Off the shelf NVM.:
Powerfull enough: check the upcoming reviews---but point 1,2 are most important to me.
Sorry XBOX, you lose this time.
Loophole35
That heatsink is massive. Very impressive.
JamesSneed
Was about to say the same. Rather unexpected to see that quality.
Silva
No dust filter at the inlet, small holes to vacuum some of the build up that will occur inside, and have to dissemble the entire console just to get to the heat sink. No thank you!
MerolaC
I don't think the LM TIM is a good idea for long therm use...
Also, the change of it dripping and shorting stuff is... quite a lot to say the least.
We will see.
Picolete
That can be aboided if the rest of the components are covered by some laquer/enamel
It even has a heat pipe on the back for the VRMs
WhiteLightning
Moderator
Ohh thats a very cool vid.
Tsenng
So what do you do with your PC graphics card to get to the heatsink?? How did you access the heatsink on your previous console?? Dust filters = alot less airflow. If you actually keep your house /room clean this is never a problem.
Weird to even bring it all up. My last console was never opened for the 3 years i owned it and it worked fine dust or no dust.
mdm
"as normally you need to re-apply liquid metal TIM regularly" HUH?!? 😕
Since when?!? I have been using LM for almost a decade, and the main benefit is - it does not have to be replaced! It is LM, it wont separate or have any change lake a paste can and in time will..!\
On one machine I have it for 7 years, and not a 1C change in temperatures! 😉
And LM dripping?? Normally applying it (a small amount, and spread it thin...), there is simply no way!!
You would have to be quite incapable and lost with HW to mess it up, and if someone does not know how, better not to touch it in the first place...
The Laughing Ma
Here's hoping that the thing won't sound like a Jumbo Jet at take off when it heats up, unlike my PS4.
Just watched the video, first thing that struck me is either the guy doing the tear down is very small or that PS5 is freaking huge
Loophole35
All reports are that the console is very quiet. With that amount of surface area and the design of the fan I could see it being near silent.
schmidtbag
I'm a little surprised they went with one big die. I'm sure the yield would've been higher if they went with separate dies under the same package. That way, if something like a CPU core was defective but the GPU was pristine, they wouldn't have to junk the entire thing. They could maybe disable some GPU cores and release a model that's not 4K-ready, but otherwise they don't really have much flexibility for binning.
It's basically an APU but instead of DDR4 it uses GDDR6 and a much beefier GPU.
k0vasz
It’s obvious that Sony has thoughtfully created this to make reparability and serviceability smooth.
Which you'll probably need, because That's a pretty progressive choice to make, as normally you need to re-apply liquid metal TIM regularly.
Guess it's not different here, ie. after a few years, the console will get hot and loud during game.
XP-200
Why do none of the chips on the mainboard have heat pads on them or heat paste, you can read the chips perfectly and they look spotless, so was this thing actually taken apart off camera and cleaned up before being put together again for this video, as it is far too clean to be a actual teardown video of the console in realtime, even though he is shown taking off the warrenty seal sticker over one of the screws, which came off way too easy and clean. lol
XP-200
^^^I see what happened, they must have stopped filming to go clean the board up as you cam see some paste when he first pulls it off, but then the next jump the board is spotless, sneaky swines. lol
Witcher29
Thats one huge console jezus.
fantaskarsef
Either they have a new, great liquid metal, or they just want to sell new consoles a few years later, a refresh / shrink so that people spend twice the money on the console 😀
Is it just me or does that PCB look... rather empty? When I look at my GPU's PCB, it's packed, but this... looks kind of spaced far in between to lower manufacturing costs.
ACEB
Hes very small lol
