PS3 dissection video

Author: Ryan Garside
Published: 13th November 2006
Comments (19) Stumble
PS3 dissection video

The insides of a Playstation 3 aren't as shiny as the outsides.

People have queued for hours, fought with one another and even hired the homeless to stand in line to secure they get their Playstation 3 come the launch in the last few days. It would appear people are even willing to pay $1200 to get their grubby little mitts on Sony's black box of wonders. It's safe to say that Japan has gone Playstation crazy and in the midst of all this a few crazy tech guys have decided to take the Playstation 3 to pieces and film it, don't they know how much money they could make?

The videos (which can be viewed in the order they were shot below) show the technicians delicately take the Playstation 3 completely apart, accompanied by the shrieks of an excited female camera-woman. The guys take the whole thing to pieces and then, not satisfied with just disembowelling one of the most sought after pieces of technology in the world, they go to work on taking the controller apart too.

For those of you looking forward to the European launch in March then this could be a scenario you find yourself in in the not too distant future. Joystiq report that the PS3 manual includes details on how to replace the hard-disk drive as well as the battery. These procedures appear fairly technical and its interesting to see that opening up your Sony components won't void your warranty.

For those of you not satisfied with the movies there is also a site full of pictures of the PS3 gutted. If the insides of the PS3 aren't your bag then Gizmodo has posted a video detailing the various options in the PS3 interface. If you like the PSP interface then you'll like this and if not.... well, stick with your 360.

Will you be taking a look at the insides of the Playstation 3? Let us know in the forums.


Quote Veles 13th November 2006, 11:33
That interface looks about as user friendly as a goat to me, got about a million options on that thing, none of 'em look to be explained all that well on the UI.

No link to the actual dissection videos?
Quote Neoki 13th November 2006, 11:47
At least they got one thing right and thats the cooling. Nice fan and heatpipe cooling
Quote Garside 13th November 2006, 11:53
With flash installed you'll see the videos in the news story.
Quote Bindibadgi 13th November 2006, 11:53
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neoki
At least they got one thing right and thats the cooling. Nice fan and heatpipe cooling

My brother was telling me that the DVD spinning actually shifts some air in the unit used for cooling, but the fans don't look too huge and it's got four big chips to cool compared to the 360's two. I'll have to reserve judgement until I see one in the flesh but I still bet the loudest thing in it will be the drive spinning like the 360.

Veles, there's 4 youtube videos in the article ;)
Quote quack 13th November 2006, 11:53
I can't wait to see the video from the Smash My PS3 guys. I want to see fanboys crying.
Quote Springs 13th November 2006, 12:09
now lets see them put it back together again... how many extra screws will they come back with...
Quote atanum141 13th November 2006, 12:17
Im inpressed with the cooling soloution, looked well up together, tho as a overall unit, it simnply has too many parts taht anyone of them could end up as faulty.

Also when they opened the controller, it looked rather empty in my mind as it was missing the rumble units.
Quote kosch 13th November 2006, 13:16
Seems theres a unit on ebay for current bid of a whopping £921!
Quote mikeuk2004 13th November 2006, 13:35
Quote:
Originally Posted by Veles
That interface looks about as user friendly as a goat to me, got about a million options on that thing, none of 'em look to be explained all that well on the UI.

No link to the actual dissection videos?

Its just like the PSP's and I find it set out very well and user friendly.
Quote mikeuk2004 13th November 2006, 13:36
Quote:
Originally Posted by kosch
Seems theres a unit on ebay for current bid of a whopping £921!

One went saturday for £1220.00
Quote Warrior_Rocker 13th November 2006, 15:07
Would have liked to see more focus on this fabled blue ray drive in the ps3. Also the ribbon to connect it to if you can call it a motherboard in there looked sneakingly like the kind commonly used in older toshiba laptops to connect to the cdrom.

I still think its rather funny looking
Quote BioSniper 13th November 2006, 15:51
Quote:
Originally Posted by Veles
That interface looks about as user friendly as a goat to me, got about a million options on that thing, none of 'em look to be explained all that well on the UI.

Agreed. The PSP interface was plain horrible to use and as such so is this, but then most of us knew it would be anyway :P
Quote Kaboom22 13th November 2006, 17:22
Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeuk2004
One went saturday for £1220.00

http://vegetawantsps3.ytmnd.com/

:D
Quote Colonel Sanders 13th November 2006, 17:30
Quote:
Originally Posted by quack
I can't wait to see the video from the Smash My PS3 guys. I want to see fanboys crying.

Smash my PS3 is just gay. I mean the first one they did had some value to it- it was original, now it's just a pathetic waste of both cash and a good system.

L J
Quote zr_ox 13th November 2006, 21:25
Shocked to see no evidence of anti-static products and the screw driver was magnetized - hope it was not one of those that went for 1200+ Squids
Quote DXR_13KE 13th November 2006, 22:54
PS3 dissection = cool

Smash My PS3 = uncool
Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeuk2004
One went saturday for £1220.00
= HOLLY CRAB!!!!!!


http://vegetawantsps3.ytmnd.com/ = LOLOLOLOLOLOL


edit: OMG LOOK AT THAT COOLER!!!! i really hope it is not loud.
The battery on the controller looks replaceable .... and it is so empty, were is the motion sensor part?
Quote wafflesomd 13th November 2006, 23:56
Quote:
Originally Posted by Colonel Sanders
Smash my PS3 is just gay. I mean the first one they did had some value to it- it was original, now it's just a pathetic waste of both cash and a good system.

L J

You must want a ps3.
Quote otispunkmeyer 14th November 2006, 18:58
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neoki
At least they got one thing right and thats the cooling. Nice fan and heatpipe cooling

yeah i thought the same thing too

thats a verynice set up they have there, with circular fins with a big slow moving fan in the center, then the chips attached by heat pipes.

the whole thing looks very weel thought out, and very well put together, it certainly took them some time to get it open.

even the mobo layout just looks ubelievably simple lol, and i was wondering where all the memory was.... its got 512mb and i only saw 256.

then i found the dissection pictures and saw that RSX has the other 256mb of memory actually on the chip package!...

still i think the 360's approach to memory is better, just having a large 512mb pool. means the graphics chip can allocate itself more memory if needs be. i think the RSX can also steal some of ram from the other 256 pool, but it has to incur higher latencies in doing so.
Quote DXR_13KE 14th November 2006, 22:38
Quote:
Originally Posted by wafflesomd
You must want a ps3.

do you understand the word waste? as in waste of money that could be used in feeding the poor, curing the sick.... etc.....
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