I don't really understand your point (or sarcasm). Playing that way will kill ANY console (no matter if it's FAT, SLIM or SUPER SLIM). Moreover, I'm talking about heating because the 60 GB model tends to overheat more than any other, especially with TLOU, which can be causing the problem (but I'm not really an expert to ensure that).
You got a point there. I bought the console used with 3.30 OFW in 2018 (and the maintenances explained before), so yeah, if the capacitors are the problem for the rest of consoles, then mine probably are in really great shape as you said. I just can consider myself lucky
My replies do not come with sarcasm, when ill throw a reply as a sarcasm, you will understand.
Anyhow, don't consider yourself lucky just yet, i had C04s that were in great shape to my eyes, and see how far got me, to my 9th Unit, always failing after 2 weeks of use, because you never know how the previous owned took care of the machine, until you have it in your hands.
With this one i have, i know it was failing due to the capacitors age, so it wasn't a complete capacitance loss, like a normal YLOD, when the machine doesn't turn on, no matter how many times you try,which in that case needs a full capacitors replacement if you want to use the machine.
Regarding your console on a older firmware when you got it, i had myself a 3.61 C04, untouched since 2011,and guess what, it failed 2 weeks later.
If i were you i would do a little homework regarding how these capacitors work, you need to understand that the PS3 its not the only machine to use these capacitors, laptops are the most common to use it as well, though by today's standards they have been replaced with Tantalums, because of they're short life span and terrible reliability, and even if it dies, how do you bring it back to life, you guest it tantalum replacement. People quickly figured it out that the problem for the YLOD wasn't bad solder-joints like the myth suggested, but actually bad capacitors that couldn't feed the GPU properly, once people started to connect the dots, the whole YLOD reballing stuff makes less sense to believe.
My advice, don't force the console too much, the more you force it the shorter the lifespan of these capacitors are, but eventually you will need to replace them when the time will come,which its better than when people bragged about reballing,and did more damage than good.
Don't every try to say something like, that will not happen to my PS3 because i know it too well, with so many units ive worked with on my daily basis, you need to learn not to be naive.
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