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cooling is a big thing on consoles as the engineers need to account for a life in a not well cooled location (eg. cabinet, tv stand etc. Many consoles in the re
by gbil 6y ago
cooling is a big thing on consoles as the engineers need to account for a life in a not well cooled location (eg. cabinet, tv stand etc. Many consoles in the recent past has thermal issues
From that point of view over-engineering is the way to go for sure. I mean they used liquid metal, that is something you don't even see in normal PCs/laptops
EDIT: cooling (fan) noise also is something they seem to have tackled with this design
- vmception 6y agoI was playing The Last of Us 2 on my version 1 PS4 and it was blowing like crazy inside my cabinet! I opened the door out of concern In classic Google fashion I found several threads saying the same thing I want to guess that the end of life graphics pushed the system that hard, but its probably just bad coding somewhere.
- jacurtis 6y agoYep, I too played Last of Us 2 on my v1-launch edition PS4 and I wasn't sure the console was going to survive to the end of the game. I was seriously concerned for the console's health. God of War is another game that put that console to its breaking point. A few times dropping down to what was probably 15-20fps with fans on at max-speed. It actually is bad enough that I will limit gaming sessions out of concern for the hardware. Which is also probably better for me and my personal life.
- vmception 6y agoAt least in a God of War they yell everything, on Last of Us 2 I could barely hear anyone over the fan Guess I will wait a while before getting PS5, means I also have to wait on Cyberpunk 2077. I heard they’ll CD Projekt will upgrade ps4 version purchasers for free but I dont trust their ability to do that in an uncomplicated way.
- 101008 6y agoWere you playing the disc version? I think I have the original PS4 too and I didnt hear anything, but I played the digital version so maybe that's the reason?
- vmception 6y agograndparent poster here: I was playing digital version.
- jacurtis 6y agoYes the noise is a big deal. Hopefully with the extra airflow accounted for in the console design and the massive fan, it should mean that it doesn't need to run full bore all the time and can help keep it quiet. I have an original PS4 (bought it at launch, haven't needed to replace it) and that thing runs fans at full tilt with any modern PS4 game and it gets loud enough to really ruin the experience. My PC also makes a lot of fan noise, but since I play with a headset at the PC, I don't hear it. But with the PS4, I am playing in the living room with speakers, so it matters a lot more.
- Narishma 6y agoYou can plug your headset into the PS4 controller.
- reaperducer 6y agothey used liquid metal, that is something you don't even see in normal PCs/laptops FWIW, one of the old 17" MacBook Pros had this. I think it was a G4. Didn't help once you fired up Virtual PC.
- formerly_proven 6y agoI think you are confusing liquidmetal (a "super alloy") with liquid metal (a gallium alloy liquid at room temperatures).
- arm 6y agoNot the most important correction, but if it had a G4 processor, that would be a PowerBook G4 (or iBook G4). Apple didn’t call their laptops MacBooks until they switched over to Intel.
- reaperducer 6y agoYou are correct, now that I think about it. I loved that machine. Passed it down to my mother who destroyed it in a week by dumping coffee on it. "No big whoop. I bet you do it all the time."
- arm 6y agoOuch, that’s unfortunate. The aluminum PowerBooks were beautiful machines too; I can’t deny that I was lusting over them when they first released!