True, S@ny always did a crap job with the thermal paste, the only console i didnt took it apart, its my PS4 Slim, because its still under warranty, and in Europe, the law of right to repair doesn´t really apply, but can´t wait to strip it to replace than poor quality thermal paste on the APU.
That ain't a Slim motherboard, The CELL and RSX on Slims are slightly smaller than these ones.
Lol, i did recognise it, in fact ill go even deeper and say thats a COK-002 board, it doesn´t seem a DIA-001 or a SEM-001 to meIt can be but if you don't use enough it doesn't cover the entire CELL and RSX so there isn't proper heat conductivity and are gaps for heat to build up.
These pics were just pulled off google. Do you not recognise the antique PS3 Phat motherboard?
Lol, i did recognise it, in fact ill go even deeper and say thats a COK-002 board, it doesn´t seem a DIA-001 or a SEM-001 to me
I have done it, now it won't start, it turns on but no output video or HDD light then after 20 second approximately it turns off itself and the red light disappears, what does that mean? [emoji29]I wouldn't take the metal IHS plate off the CELL and RSX, you can damage them permanently if done wrong. I would just replace the paste between the the main heat sink and the CELL and RSX, that should do the job for them and remember about the small thermal pads on a couple of the smaller chips as these give off some heat as well.
Clean the RSX and CELL:
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Replace paste and your done.
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Your obsessed with these NEC tokens lol
And yeah your right, yours is that old its an antique...
You delided the CELL as well? If so, bad move then.
I only put thermal paste on the chips , didn't pull them out , what do you think?
So, you didn´t delid the CELL and RSX, great, which means you didn´t break anything.
I actually do both of your methods
Hey Hey! How are my methods risky? It works for me lolAt this point is needed to clarify what is a "delid" of the IHS
The IHS are 2 metal pieces thatares either "sticked" with thermal glue (in RSX), or with a cord of silicone all around (in CELL)
Here can be seen how has been "unsticked" and flipped back
There are different ways to do this (and i dont suggest you to use the one Naked_Snake1995 is suggesting to use, that method is risky snaaaaake)
@Khabibov please tell if you have trying this "deliding" of your PS3 IHS's
Is just i dislike all methods that involves "forces" applyed vertically, also is the kind of thing that happens in a milisecond with a "pop" noiseHey Hey! How are my methods risky? It works for me lol
Is just i dislike all methods that involves "forces" applyed vertically, also is the kind of thing that happens in a milisecond with a "pop" noise
Is easy to do it that way, but is a bit like a lottery
The good thing is after your PS3's survived to the surgical extirpation they became legend
I saw few YouTube tutorial about how to delid CPU of PS3 , they do it even in hard touch not gently, so at first I decided to do it with my first console using a cutter as I saw they do it by cutter too so I was happy when I managed to remove it then I put thermal paste and assembled my PS3 and shocked it wouldn't start, is makes beep with flash blinking red light, then I realized that I cut the connections on cpu board by the cutter, I was sad that I did it in bad way so I opened my second console to find out why I couldn't make it , I tried the second time but very gentle way by using old gift card and some of alcohol 70% but the card was bending so I ended up put thermal paste only on those two IHS, then after finishing it I got new problem I mentioned , but still can't believe that I did another wrong thing as I was very careful because of the my previous time hard lesson.At this point is needed to clarify what is a "delid" of the IHS
The IHS are 2 metal pieces that are either "sticked" with thermal glue (in RSX), or with a cord of silicone all around (in CELL)
Here can be seen how has been "unsticked" and flipped back
There are different ways to do this (and i dont suggest you to use the one Naked_Snake1995 is suggesting to use, that method is risky snaaaaake)
@Khabibov please tell if you have trying this "deliding" of your PS3 IHS's
I actually do both of your methods
First i spread a veeeeery thin layer of thermal paste, with a transparent plastic (that allows me to see under the plastic), and then i drop an small pea of thermal paste in the middle
In PC i only do the cardboard (but not the pea on top) because usually in PC the metal heatsinks surface does a very well contact with the processor die (or IHS) surface
But in PS3 the heatsink is double (CELL and RSX surfaces together in the same heatsink metal block). One of them is mobile (the next time you have a PS3 heatsink in your hands try to move one of the "block surfaces" and you will see one of them have a "gap" that allows it to move up or down
Well... that design with a mobile piece is because is imposible to have the CELL and RSX perfectly aligned in the motherboard, so the heatsink is supposed to "adapt" his height independently
The idea is nice... but in the practice doesnt works very well... what i could see is the whole heatsink is a bit "rigid" and doesnt adapts very well
I even "lapped" a PS3 slim heatsink (i leave the surfaces shiny like mirrors) and it was still having some small "gaps" in between heatsink surfaces and IHS
Of course... you can "fix" this problem by bending the metal plates at the back of heatsink to add a lot more pressure... but this could reach a point that should be considered risky
Long story short... you need to add a good amount of thermal paste on top of CELL and RSX IHS's (more than you are used to do in a normal PC)
And btw... this is another reason why a non-conductive thermal paste is better to use in PS3... because you need to "play safe", an excess of thermal paste is fine
So the PS3 we are talking about has not been delided, right ?, you just changed thermal paste ?
You were not the only one lad hahahahaha...
I actually do both of your methods
First i spread a veeeeery thin layer of thermal paste, with a transparent plastic (that allows me to see under the plastic), and then i drop an small pea of thermal paste in the middle
, and it won't cause shorts or bridge connections. Its also the recommended one to use on the PS3 dev Wiki. a kitchen knife??? what where you trying to do? fix the PS3 or murder it? 
That was back in my youth days mate, during the summer, my 40Gb kicked the Fan, so young stupid me, delided the RSX, and it was a success, but the Fan was still loud, so i delided the CELL, and then s@it happend! I scratched the CELL traces, and got YLODI just cake them in a carbon based thermal paste, this is why I suggested to use Arctic MX-4. As you can get it anywhere, if your messy and don't have a steady hand anyways
@Khabibov you also may want to check all the connections and ribbon cables, specifically the ribbon cable behind the BD Drive, I didn't have it seated correctly when I did mine and the PS3 didn't boot correctly and shut down. I didn't lift the Black clip on it all the way before inserting the ribbon cable, then once inserted push it down.
What?
[emoji856]That was back in my youth days mate, during the summer, my 40Gb kicked the Fan, so young stupid me, delided the RSX, and it was a success, but the Fan was still loud, so i delided the CELL, and then s@it happend! I scratched the CELL traces, and got YLOD
#NoRagrets
