Belly up to the Bar (aka The Post Whorin' Thread)

[Dave]

Originally Posted by marko138

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It overheated and desoldered either the cpu or gpu. A fix involves stripping it down to motherboard and frying it with a heat gun. Then reassembling with new thermal transfer compound. Usually only lasts a few months.

To extend those months I'm thinking about taking advantage of the ps3's variable speed fan. Either by hardwiring it for full speed, switch, or maybe a potentiometer, or some combination of the three.