Recent content by Unrul3r

Well, you told me to read the thread after your post and many of the posts gave me the impression I wrote above. So, the pessimism is warranted. Also paying 40-50€ for the capacitors weigh on me. In the beginning I was hoping to buy some cheap ones but the low ESR rating requirement seems to...

Oof. I can understand. You just made me pessimistic. Haha. All this reading just made it seem like IF the NECs are at fault and I want to have a shot at good long-lasting fix I'll have to delid both RSX and Cell, replace the capacitors and hope I do a good enough job out of it. Plus the cost of...

Thank you both for all these suggestions and information! So I'll test the resistance on the capacitors and, since there is no loss in trying, I might as well piggyback some tantalums while I'm at it. I'm not sure when I'll do this. I still have to buy some good capacitors and wait for them to...

I see. Thank you for sharing your experience, Revak3115. That is helpful!

1. No, never Jet engine. YLOD started one day out of the blue. 2. CECHC04 3. Its not intact. As I said previously, I re-flowed it and re-pasted it. No, I'm not considering selling it. I want to give this a shot since the more I read the more it seems that the capacitors are at fault but I want...

Thank you for the welcome and availability! Got the station. No board pre-heater though I do have a heat gun. Lets say basic experience, I've replaced 5 or 6 components (capacitors, resistors, etc) which didn't require much knowledge and I also have a close relative who has a lot more...

Thank you for the detailed reply! Well, in the past, it had YLOD, I re-flowed and re-pasted and it worked for a short time. I'd rather try see if this might be the problem and fix it for as long as possible than stay with a non-functional PS3. I recently took the PS3 out again and it worked for...

Hey new here! I'm wishing to do this replacement but I'm not entirely sure which capacitors to buy. Are any 470uf 6.3v (Phat) Tantalum capacitors enough? Found some cheap ones on ebay with 15 mΩ resistance rating. Is this an important specification?