PS4 was driving me crazy, decided to mod.

My PS4 had gotten to the point, after 7 years, that as soon as i launched anything other than netflix/hulu, it would hit turbo-fan-mode, and legitimately drone out anything. I'd have to turn my tv up to 50-60 to hear it when normally 25-30 would suffice.

After seeing some reddit threads of suggestions/fixes I took it all apart, cleaned it all, applied new thermal paste, did everything. Helped it for a couple of days, but it came back just as loud.

Yesterday I started by cutting a hole in the back of the case (to access fan/heatsink) and then another hole in the plastic guard around the heatsink.

After that I drilled holes and sank the cpu mounting screws into the back of the case.
Applied the thermal paste, mounted, and set it back up.


Here she is on my shelf beside the TV, running almost silently. The fan so far has only even kicked up to 2x its normal idle speed.

I did half to manually wire the cooler's fan to a usb cable to power it up until the actual cable comes in though lol..
I had also gotten tired of slow loading screens and launch speeds, so I decided to swap the 2014 500gb HDD for a nice new 1tb SSD.
The difference is insane.

Whoa just now saw this. This is very cool, how is it running now?

Very nice modifications! @Magnesium J Wish I was that tech savy ^^

Bob wrote:Whoa just now saw this. This is very cool, how is it running now?

It's running the best it's ever run, since original purchase. it takes hours now to kick in the fan past idle, whereas before it would take about 5 minutes running a game to kick it to max.

After it's success, and doing some research, I'm about to attempt to fix my old ps3 fat that died a while back. The solder balls on the CPU/GPU chips need to be replaced.. If I can get it to work, I'm considering shoving a ps3, ps2, and ps1 all together into a PC case, and making a Master-PlayStation.

If you make that Master-Playstation you gotta post that here!! So cool