Overclocking a PS3 with Project RSX Boost

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A video about PS3 overclocking. This is the video I wish existed when I first learned about Project RSX Boost.
Links:
Evilnat CFW: www.psx-place.com/threads/cfw...
Project RSX Boost Thread: www.psx-place.com/threads/pro... Builder: github.com/haxxxen/ps3mfw-builder-0.2.1-mod
Game footage used:
Heavenly Sword (PS3)
Katamari Forever (PS3)
Pain (PS3)
Spec Ops: The Line (PS3)
Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - DISCLAIMER
1:48 - Project RSX Boost
3:16 - PS3 Hardware Variants
5:36 - Prepping the Console
7:09 - Baseline Performance Tests
9:21 - Setting Up the Overclock (pt. 1)
11:38 - Evilnat OC Update
12:45 - Setting Up the Overclock (pt. 2)
14:56 - 100 MHz Overclock Performance Tests
16:54 - 200 MHz Overclock
17:56 - One-Week Update
18:48 - Conclusion

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@DrDrlol Ай бұрын

Evilnat's BETA 6 OC files are already gone, new BETA 7 has no OC yet.

@sync-on-luma Ай бұрын

Dang, looks like they wiped it out right after I hit upload. Hopefully they'll release new ones soon. in the meantime, just check the Project RSX Boost thread for links to overclocked firmwares.

@Reactivate100 Ай бұрын

@@sync-on-lumathis video is absolute rubbish. PS3 never have any frame rate issues. And I very much doubt the Xbox 360 ran better than the PS3.

@xxbyron13xx Ай бұрын

@@Reactivate100Pfft 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@spiral7399 Ай бұрын

@@Reactivate100PS3 fanboying in 2024 is wild. Just accept it like the rest of us and move on bro...

@StonedMagician99 Ай бұрын

@@Reactivate100 The fact that MGS4 FPS would regularly drop into the teens says you're full of shit sir.

@albiallkja7261 Ай бұрын

Good to se that there are still pople working on the ps3 and keeping it alive.

@andrewa837 Ай бұрын

Fyi, we are discovering the 2500 series slims can reach up to 900/950.

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

So far only mine does this stable. No one else’s slims can do it. So far. We are a tiny community of people that test this. 900 core is already so high. 900 stable is the Max stable this will ever go. 950 would be near impossible across every slim. We need more voltage.

@razmann4k Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 BTW aren't 2100 Slims basically the same (CFW and 40nm RSX), shouldn't they also be able to go a bit higher than 600/750?

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

@@razmann4k yes. 700 core should be easily doable and stable. Memory should be solid at 900mhz too. But the testing method of should be done first always. So going 50 MHz up each time.

@razmann4k Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 Thanks, sounds good. I'm actually running 4.84.2 REBUG D-REX (as I'm also making a game in Unity for PS3, and at the time I jailbroke it Evilnat didn't support Developer .pkgs). I'm hoping I can recompile 4.84.2 REBUG D-REX with higher clocks

@razmann4k Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 Great, thanks for the reply. I've been running my 2100 Slim at 600/750 for nearly 2 years now, and there's been zero issues to speak of, would be fun to experiment, but as I don't have an E3 flasher, I'd like to be extra careful in going higher. BTW I'm running REBUG 4.84.2 D-REX (as I needed to run developer .pkgs and Evilnat didn't support that yet in 2022 when I installed it.

@alexteles9968 Ай бұрын

One day Super Slim/late Slim owners will thrive, once a CFW becomes available these models will surely become more popular and this project may be one of the reasons.

@varno Ай бұрын

This will only be possible once someone cracks the new master key, which will probably be circa 5-10 years after the first useful quantum computer, so about 20 years from now.

@PlayingUnfairly Ай бұрын

@@varnoyep, it’ll be a long time from now before we even begin to see CFW for PS3 Superslims & that’s if the PS3’s are even around, PS4/5/6/7 may very well get exploited.

@varno Ай бұрын

@@PlayingUnfairly the 40nm and newer slims should last that long. The big issue was that chip manufacturing at 90 and 65 nm went through some big materials changes, and the quality wasn't there yet.

@PlayingUnfairly Ай бұрын

@@varno I think as a whole the PS3 superslim was just cheap overall. The issue i’m talking about is if these consoles can stand the test of time, I don’t know what it is but these PS3 consoles are dying a lot more than the PS2’s are. I’ve had only 1 PS2 in my life & it lasted longer than 4 PS3’s i’ve had since they came out. PS4’s are also questionable considering how stupidly hot they get.

@varno Ай бұрын

@PlayingUnfairly actually, everything in the superslim, whilst built to a cost, is actually quite durable in its simplicity. The only item that wears out and is irreplaceable is the bluray laser diode in the optical drive, and there is sadly nothing yo be done about that. But for digital games, everything else should easily last 20 years from now. The ps3 was after the capacitor plague and so avoids that main issue too. But as I said, the early ps3s are really unreliable. Basically every 90nm ps3 will eventually die as will probably the 64nm chips eventually, the move to copper interconnects and bump bonding, as well as the new low-k dielectrics used between the traces are were just not understood well enough at the time to be reliable. This was fixed mostly one the 40nm node and completely fixed on 28nm.

@mroliveoil Ай бұрын

I dont own a ps3 but i watched the whole thing through. really interesting

@Exseyy Ай бұрын

Same

@tl1882 Ай бұрын

i own a ps3 that cant do this

@LT.dans_new_legs Ай бұрын

I own a gamecast

@Ophis. Ай бұрын

@@LT.dans_new_legsthat’s a classic

@RapAddict420 Ай бұрын

Same gang

@vladimirjanovec850 Ай бұрын

Love the production quality, punching way above your current view count

@sync-on-luma Ай бұрын

Thanks. I work as a video editor for a real estate company.

@the-blackist-RX Ай бұрын

@@sync-on-luma this you? www.youtube.com/@AtomicPurple

@KevPezJALP Ай бұрын

@@sync-on-lumagood work! I’m hoping to get into a similar line of work as yoy

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

Glad to see a video🙏 we’ve been in the forum convo for weeks now. My PS3 did 900/950. I won the lottery.

@LuanVATeles Ай бұрын

I'm jealous of you. My ps3 at 900/1000, experiences random crashing in games like Crysis and God of War :(

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

@@LuanVATeles but don’t you have 850/1000 fully stable?

@LuanVATeles Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 Yeap, 850/1000 is 100%

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

@@LuanVATeles that already is fantastic. 1ghz on the memory is insane. We need to find a way to increase voltage. That way OCs can go higher with zero artifacts. You think voltage editing could be possible?

@snou69 Ай бұрын

Could you perhaps provide us with some video footage? I'd love to see that beast in action

@LBSiUK Ай бұрын

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but thank you for the subtitles!

@Lancemarkful Ай бұрын

Little correction to overclocking power and heat generation. Even if you don't adjust voltage, power and heat goes up, because simply chip is doing more work than before. More work chip does, more power it takes, more heat it produces, so overclock without voltage bump, still increase power and heat, but not nearly as much as with voltage bump. As mentione in video, heat goes up with overclock, that's because power does too, it's not free performance.

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

I’ve been doing this for 2 years now. And now I do 900/950. And no! The heat doesn’t go up nearly at all. Maybe 2c. But my temps don’t change. That 2c could be margine of error.

@Lancemarkful Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 I don't mean that heat has to go up significantly, I mean that not touching voltage does not equal not increasing power usage andheat in overclocking. Your mild increase of temperature, strongly suggesting that GPU is not increasing workload, because something else is bottleneck in the system. Temps increase pretty linearly with workload increase, if voltage is constant. You can overclock as much as you want but if workload is the same, temps are the same. I believe system memory and cell CPU are bigger bottleneck in many multiplatform games, because this CPU was not utilised properly. I'm interested how much fps increase is correlated to heat increase. If You get few percent fps probably heat go up by few percent.

@StaticVapour590 Ай бұрын

Exactly! Same goes for older GPUs as good example, I have done voltmods to GPUs with variable resistor fooling the power control IC. You can lock the voltage, increase the clock speed and it will generate more heat. On newer cards where the power delivery is handled via "budget" there is possibility to increase power limit, that bumps up the voltage too. Clockspeeds including boost are mapped with variable voltage/usage/power cap and ultimately there is a ceiling somewhere with stock hardware/bios. Same goes for this PS3 mod, clockspeed is hard set on it, I highly doubt it's stepping down the clockspeed when utilization is under 100%. It's always running at constant speed and voltage. Increase clock speed or increase voltage = more heat

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

@@Lancemarkful in unlocked framerate games, I’ve gained like 20 FPS. In locked framerates to 30, well it hugs the 30 mark way more constant. Cpu is our biggest bottleneck.

@Lancemarkful Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 so gains are bigger than I expected. And temps barely higher. Is fan on auto or on constant? It's weird to have significant fps gains with marginally bigger temps. Maybe the fan on auto just spins a bit higher to keep temps on the same level

@wowwhataworld.9590 Ай бұрын

This video is clear, concise and we'll produced. I appreciate that a lot. Subbed

@joelnwadike3181 Ай бұрын

Overclocking in general has always been about courage

@coccoborg Ай бұрын

2:30 one note: more power IS used by the chip, even if the voltage remains the same. This is because power is consumed by binary logic mostly during transients (switching state) and this happens proportionally to the number of cycles. If you're interested in more details, look up power characteristics of simple logic gates: they work in pretty much the same way! What constant voltage guarantees is that, at every given cycle, no more current than stock can flow, but increase the number of transients and energy used (not instantaneous power!) DOES absolutely go up linearly, and heat with them ;)

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

No it doesn’t. Stop it.

@coccoborg Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 uhm, yes it does! this is how CMOS logic gates work, no way around that, it's physics. See "dynamic power consumption" www.ti.com/lit/an/scaa035b/scaa035b.pdf

@coccoborg Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 no for real, you are wrong. Check out "dynamic power" for CMOS circuits.

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

@@coccoborg no. Enough.

@coccoborg Ай бұрын

@@Tanzu15 power consumption is a function of frequency. Yes increasing voltage increases power, but so does upping the frequency. Stating "enough" does not make physics change.

@Brianramos993 Ай бұрын

i remember seeing a different cfw let you slightly oc the ps3 before this project, so this is interesting to see

@Razzbow Ай бұрын

2:20 Even if the voltage is the same, higher frequency increases the current load meaning that it DOES use more power.

@vanderlinde4you Ай бұрын

But usually within it's defined specs...

@ChaozzZJohnny Ай бұрын

One important thing about the pads: They have a fairly high thermal conductivity, but the important part about paste is, that excess paste gets pushed to the sides, so it basically only fills small gaps between the cold plate of the heat spreader and the IHS of the RSX where otherwise would be a air. Direct contact between the cold plate and the IHS would be way better for cooling, so you actually made it worse with the pads.

@famousfighter2310 Ай бұрын

If it was direct die then would it have made sense?

@iP1sano Ай бұрын

Those are not regular thermal pads. They become liquid at a relatively low temperature. Then it becomes solid again as the chip is cooled down to room temperature. Also take this with a grain of salt but it's not really recommended for direct die when the die is small because in most cases you lack the mounting pressure. If you have a bigger die (like the ones on desktop GPUs) then it's better than most pastes.

@powerpower-rg7bk Ай бұрын

Not necessarily with a phase change material. It does turn into a high viscous liquid once a critical temperature is reached. As a liquid with good mounting pressure, it'll spread out a bit and filling in those microscopic imperfections on both the cold plate and heat spreader.

@bartsic85 Ай бұрын

CECHL FAT console with 1TB SSD CFW 4.90 RSX Overclocked 600/750 I used twice cheaper and apparently twice as efficient liquid metal from China called LT-100. I've had over 30 hours of testing. The highest temperature I have recorded while playing every Crysis game. Speed fan always set to 28% (very quiet) RSX - 69 degrees Celsius for a short while, then drop to a practically permanent 68 degrees Celsius. Cell - the highest I recorded when emulating PS2 games was 60 degrees Celsius. In over 30 hours of testing, I never once saw 70 degrees Celsius on the RSX (only 28% fan speed). Testing time is approximately an hour of playing each of the tested games. Below are some of the results I recorded. MGS4 Cell - 59 RSX 62 Uncharted2 Cell - 57 RSX 62 MGS2HD Cell - 54 RSX 53 Killzone 2 Cell - 57 RSX 62 UT 3 Cell - 55 RSX 58 Bioshock Cell - 55 RSX 62 Dark Souls II Cell - 58 RSX 67 unlock framerate God of War Cell - 58 RSX 64 unlock framerate Battlefield 3 Cell - 55 RSX 58 Far Cry 3 Cell - 57 RSX 63 Skate 2 Cell - 57 RSX 60 unlock framerate RDR Cell - 60 RSX 65 Crysis Cell - 60 RSX 69 Crysis 2 Cell - 59 RSX 69

@cyphaborg6598 Ай бұрын

Aha liquid metal would probably be a good idea, I assumed OC as is.

@mii9010 Ай бұрын

You should try the PS3 Gran Turismo titles with 1080p enabled, as they're known for pushing the PS3 hard

@Agent-mb1xx 29 күн бұрын

works flawlessly on a 700/900 CFW on 2501A

@mii9010 29 күн бұрын

@@Agent-mb1xx What's the framerate like? Is it more stable? How much gains is there from this?

@Agent-mb1xx 28 күн бұрын

@@mii9010 will retry tonight, just installed the 750/900 one. So far @ 720p it is perfect, will retry @ 1080p (GT6)

@Agent-mb1xx 28 күн бұрын

@@mii9010 Flawless 60FPS in GT6, tested on the Nordschleife @ 1080p Crysis has texture related white artifacts, this is the memory's clock doing it I use the 750/900

@satu-gt Ай бұрын

nice video bro!! I can't do it since my cech is 30xx but I watched the whole video as it was super interesting and you made those 20 mim feel like 5. keep it up! new sub:)

@TheFeF97 Ай бұрын

Por fin un video que habla detalladamente sobre esto y con una comparación exquisita, y no tonterías como los de habla hispana. Gracias viejo por tomarte el tiempo de enseñarnos estas cosas. Nuevo sub

@FatherMcKenzie66 Ай бұрын

Stellar video quality man! Great video!

@Zobbster Ай бұрын

Really interesting video, shame I can't use it on my HEN only slim, but it's exciting to see what people can get out of the hardware all these years later!

@bombjack1984 Ай бұрын

Very nice video, everything explained clearly. Its a shame your early Slim can't do 700 stable, most seem able to. My early Slim is currently stable at 700/900, so perhaps you could try increasing the memory a bit, it does make quite a difference.

@enterkey8158 28 күн бұрын

Very cool vid. Curious thing is that i was using ptm pads on my ps3 as well and couldn't find anyone on the internet doing so as well. So good to know it was actually a good idea lol

@hardwarerepair200 Ай бұрын

Great video! You deserve way more subs!

@arekusu. Ай бұрын

I'll be honest, if anyone can get Fallout New Vegas running smoothly on a PS3, I'll die a happy man

@mimimimeow Ай бұрын

So far the 600/750 OC hasn't let me down, MGS5 GZ and TPP actually performs better than X360 version. GT6 has major improvements. I think a lot of that comes from memory OC, the PS3 actually does a lot of swapping for the Cell CPU.

@cliff974 Ай бұрын

A friend of mine had the game Pain on his PS3 and we loved playing it. Happy to see it all these years later in this video.

@LuanVATeles Ай бұрын

Really nice video :)

@RedFlameFox Ай бұрын

Too bad I'm out of the loop since I have two Superslim consoles, this looks very cool, thanks for this video.

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

Sadly super slims can’t be OCed. It needs Cfw.

@negi9076 Ай бұрын

Maybe someone would do it on their 40nm frankenstein PS3 BC? The cooling and power requirement would surely be less of a problem, maybe one with a great quality RSX can hit 1GHz in core speed.

@GrandemagicoWall Ай бұрын

I would be very afraid to risk melting my Frankenstein after all those money and work spent to prevent it from melting in the first place.

@razmann4k Ай бұрын

@@GrandemagicoWall Yeah, better to just use any old Slim 40nm PS3 with the fan turned up to 100%/liquid cooling if necessary than to risk a Frankenstein.

@nesan44 Ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7d3lbhhmNDUdIE.html I saw this youtuber managed to overclock his ps3 slim to 1ghz for his rsx

@henshin587 Ай бұрын

Have been using 700/900 OC for a week now, the xmb froze a couple of times but apart from that the games work perfectly fine. People use crysis as a benchmark for stability, but i would never play crysis on the ps3. From the more demanding games iv played are gow3 and ascension, motorstorm 2 and 3, kz2 and 3 and everything worked fine. Btw, my slim is 2501 and both cell and rsx are delided. I also tried the 800/900, but the artifacts were even on the xmb, so a went back to 700/900.

@lillexus5589 Ай бұрын

@@henshin587Running GTA 4 would probably be a good benchmark aswell, ran like shit on the newest PS3 years ago.

@MrSamPhoenix Ай бұрын

I love this video! More please 😊

@bbblop4545 Ай бұрын

I wonder how far you could take a PS3 using water cooling. It would be a neat project, taking apart a PS3, putting it a little ITX case, maybe even finding a way to keep the blu-ray drive and using some water blocks and a 120 or 240mm radiator.

@telsan4291 Ай бұрын

I can imagine once we are able to fully jailbreak the Super Slim with the 28nm then we can essentially make our own PS3 Pro, I have one in my drawer ready for that day 😎

@ISAK.M Ай бұрын

This is past my time at PSX-Place its kinda crazy they are still at it 4 years later

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

Lol same here. It’s just addicting.

@spiral7399 Ай бұрын

Very interesting video bro. Unfortunately I have a 90nm CHECH A00, so there's no chance I'm gonna be able to test this as well. But its cool that slim owners get some benefits too. I wonder if a CELL overclock is also possible. Maybe we'll finally get that PS3 Pro someday.

@VictorHugoAlvarez-eternelymiss 12 күн бұрын

Yes Bro a Cell a Overclock is Totally Possible!! cause One the Master of PSX just did it, its on youtube just search for Cell Processor OVerclock Devkit, keep scrolling and you will find it, also he told me in comments long ago, if you want to do THis on an Retail PS3 besides Devkit its only possible on first Gen PS3, i think he meant the 4 usbs Ones i Think Pretty much, and again also the Devkits.

@VictorHugoAlvarez-eternelymiss Ай бұрын

Great Video Dude

@levant5378 Ай бұрын

I've been running the overclocked firmware sincer release a couple of years ago, and the best thing about it is that it gives that extra 10-15% fps boost that PS3 games mostly seem to be missing. Such as GT5 running at around 55fps now hitting 59.99fps. It's as if the devs all had dev kit targets that never got adjusted down correctly for the retail kits. And this overclock bridges the gap and makes the games feel like they should be running how the devs intended. Some games however are still aweful, such as Lair, and the Splinter cell trilogy. I don't think any overclock could fix those games fps'.

@capfromTT 25 күн бұрын

Currently running a 650/875 OC on my 2001 slim, this thing is nuts

@Eyetrauma Ай бұрын

Quality info, glad people are breathing new life into this console. Sadly I have to live with my beloved but ultimately doomed BC Fat 😢 Maybe I’ll keep an eye out for a thrift store Slim now…

@mrb692 Ай бұрын

Keep it clean and cool and you’ll be fine.

@swerrr8893 Ай бұрын

I have owned a PS3 fat CECHL since 2012. I just changed the thermal interfaces every three years and console still works great.

@SKITZIZAKINGDON Ай бұрын

Nice one bro, i`m waiting a few more months to do this. hope a nice wiki will evolve from this. and nice Thermal tip.

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

We are gathering tons of data so eventually we find a good method to have it as safe as possible.

@LostJediJC 18 күн бұрын

very cool, looking forward to seeing what's possible with overclocked ps3s

@Tanzu15 18 күн бұрын

For now that’s all we can do. And what we will be able to do in a long time or just straight up ever. So enjoy it while we have it. It has big boosts in performance.

@LostJediJC 18 күн бұрын

@@Tanzu15 uh yea.. i understand that. Thx. Shoutout to everyone working to get any performance improvements on the ps3!!

@pot3to444 Ай бұрын

The pads might not need to be replaced, but the thermal paste under the lid definitely needs to be at some point.

@PieStudios Ай бұрын

You earned a sub, this video is Super informative. Have you tried out Sonic Unleashed?

@vita007 Ай бұрын

I hope CFW releases on those newer consoles

@jonathanwilliams5329 Ай бұрын

I've had evilnat 4.90 600/750 OC on my FAT 80GB DIA-002 (Cell-65nm/RSX-65nm) for some 2ish months now. it been great, rock solid stability and little to no temp increase. note thought my ps3 only has 3,000 hours of power on time (buddy's slim with HEN had over 12k hrs), fresh thermal paste, and the fan curve turned up which may help with how stable it's been. I did a play through of Nier, and Killzone 2 and 3 with no issue or artifacts and 18-20% better fps performance. drops to 25fps now hold 30fps and drops into the teens now hold above 20fps. Will be doing goldHEN on my PS4 Pro next.

@levant5378 Ай бұрын

Shame that the likes of Killzone 2 get hit with slowdowns so often. Great game otherwise.

@El.Duder-ino Ай бұрын

Nice! Homebrew for the PS3 is still strong and healthly💪👍 No surprise there it’s a last unique HW architecture PS console Sony has released till this date.

@DJH4521 Ай бұрын

I LOVE PAIN!!! And the ps3 is one of my favorite consoles I’m def gonna try this if I get one ❤

@Butterscotch_96 Ай бұрын

If I overclocked my PS3 Fat it would evaporate.

@user-mz6vg2en2k Ай бұрын

ahahahah, 100%))))))

@ChainPenguin Ай бұрын

Awesome video, I would love to see more improvements that the gaming community is doing with "retro" consoles. Hate to call the PS3 retro, I'm not that old.😢

@for7hyp3 Ай бұрын

It would be interesting to see how much performance could be gained from overlocking the cell processes if it can be overclocked at all. Given how the SPE’s are responsible for a lot of the heavy lifting, especially in games with lots of physics.

@ryans413 Ай бұрын

The games are only running bad because developers hadn’t figured out the Cell yet. So the RXS was bogged down doing all the work in the early games. Developers like Naughty Dog fingered out graphics could be rendered by the Cell itself freeing up the capabilities to have games run much smoother.

@LyuboA Ай бұрын

that's great when i went to buy my PS3s i specially wanted the last CFW capable models they end up all been 25xx got 3 of these left

@EinSwitzer Ай бұрын

you can do thermal pads to the heatspeaders and pads for southbridge and northbridge and PPU chips yes make a thermal pad that touches the metal box the ps3 uses thermal paste for chips itself and based on gpu size then oc will be higher

@user-qm2jc7rg3s Ай бұрын

I am running the 700MHz one on my 80GB PS3 Fat and everything is perfect so far but the console has been refurbished recently, MX4 thermal paste by Arctic, new pads as well

@NeverGiveUpYo 2 күн бұрын

Cool stuff bro.

@BIGBOICOMBO Ай бұрын

COD BO3 was the game that really struggled to run on PS3 right at the title screen , framerates dips straight to 9 in some cases , it would be interesting to see how it runs with OC

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

The menu is just bugged. What matters is in game. And the in game FPS goes up by a lot.

@pixelsrnautded9286 Ай бұрын

I played through Persona 5 with this overclock. And it had way less screen tearing due to framerate sticking closer to 30 fps.

@ElonTusk. Ай бұрын

could u do a video teaching us how to use mfw builder.. i used it once and bricked my ps3

@oscarloria Ай бұрын

Awesome! Can you test on more games please? Thank you!

@FlashZip0904 Ай бұрын

Hi, I have used rsx Boost 600 750 for more than two months on my 2500 and I can confirm that the heating problems are due to your rsx 65nm In most games, both CPU and GPU are kept below 65°C with fan at around 40%.

@jjhack3r Ай бұрын

I want a way to get the CPU up to 3.5ghz

@mizukun9037 Ай бұрын

my ps3 FAT one (2usb) got the red button of death and im too hesistant to apply thermal paste by taking them off knowing that the repair shops will charge a LOT

@zachariah74 Ай бұрын

Please, what theme were you using on your XMB?

@leandronb Ай бұрын

Is thermal pads better than mx-6? The pads are more expensive and not available to buy in my country, only importing. Do you think worth buying these anyway? What size should be good?

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

No mx6 is way way way better.

@KHPKero Ай бұрын

i have a cech 2000a similar to yours and mine already reaches 70c with fan speed going to 80 without oc i do need to mention that mine was recently fixed by a local shop after the cpu went bad (according to the shop) and it wouldn't ever boot up as if the power was cut so I don't know if i should go with this or not but there are definitely some demanding games i wanna test this with

@QuisquamHam Ай бұрын

Would this firmware have any effect on RPCS3?

@cinzacaful Ай бұрын

How is the GTA 4 run? The bikers DLC had serious problems on my slim PS3, drops under 20 fps

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

It helps a lot.

@sorrybecausei Ай бұрын

My dream ps3 is Frankensteining a super slim rsx into a phat model and overclocking it, hopefully that’s one day possible

@vdochev Ай бұрын

Mine is just a reliable PS3 with passive cooling that holds 55C at max.

@Heu.. Ай бұрын

I have the 25xx that u talked about.. Should i give it a try

@SonicBoone56 Ай бұрын

Was hoping you'd test Gran Turismo 6 as well. Very noticeable framerate drops for certain cars and tracks, especially with night and rain. Even worse in 1080p.

@zentozanto2118 Ай бұрын

can u test raw Sykrim without patches to see how oc would impact to the framerate?

@mr.banana5186 17 күн бұрын

How do i know what if i have a 90nm or a 65nm and is there a tutorial for the OC ?

@santorfo Ай бұрын

Good video, I have to fix my CECH-2004 once day, the tokins are dead

@MadScientistGamer Ай бұрын

crazy question but, would this work for a ps3 emulator?

@sovo1212 Ай бұрын

I'd love to see a RAM upgrade mod, that allows for better textures in games, I'm pretty sure the PS3 could excel in this.

@nunosa528 Ай бұрын

that would be great in games where you can edit the cfg files like for example v1.00 of Crysis 3 (physical version only) or Alien Isolation that also has the files exposed and can be modded.

@Keo Ай бұрын

I would have done this test with fan set to a fixed value, I'll try it

@Thermometer10 Ай бұрын

What if you install better cooling?

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

Wouldn’t matter. Voltage doesn’t go up at all.

@PokyBallinBabo Ай бұрын

Discalimer vs Excalibur, which is better?

@carbonara2144 Ай бұрын

Interesting experiment. I still have the ps3 slim I have played so many great games. I have a soft spot for it and have been occasionally buying games I didn't play back then. I would not risk it for this. Old chips do wear out slowly but surely when overclocked. Too bad you cannot do that superslim. I would get one and OC the heck out of it.

@Cristian121212100 Ай бұрын

I would not use those thermal pads on anything, that’s probably why your fan was getting loud try actual thermal paste and your temps and fan noise should improve

@ArmchairRamb0 Ай бұрын

Katamari Forever! Ha, that was a fun surprise, but then Pain!? You've broken into my Super Slim.

@abrahamlincoln3181 Ай бұрын

I still use my PS3 to watch Netflix and KZfaq on a dumb TV. Actually received a system software update a few weeks ago.

@UrOpinionsSucc Ай бұрын

Updating the Blu-Ray keys.

@AFpaleoCon Ай бұрын

Please tell me you took the protective film off those pads… it looked like it was still on.

@sync-on-luma Ай бұрын

I did. I can't believe I got two comments about this same thing back-to-back.

@n0ctiz456 Ай бұрын

Would love to see Drakengard 3 with this

@MikeLaRock88 Ай бұрын

If you are someone who doesn't maintain thermal paste and clean your system, this is NOT for you 😂 Edit: Nevermind. He covered it in the vid

@ratlingzombie8705 Ай бұрын

I could think of 1 possible other way to repair a bricked console. I am overclocking a lot myself and have some experience. Basically a unstable overclock could become stable if you manage to reduce the chips temperature. You could then reflash the old software and put the console back together. This obviously would require to modify the thermal solution of the console but I think that shouldn't be too hard for an average person. I don't know how the thermal solution of the PS3 is set up and if it would run with for example the cover removed but removing of the cover alone could drastically improve temperature. If that isn't enough you could try to take a stronger fan (connected to some power source like a desktop PC) put it at 100% and press it against the PS3 finstack. The PS3 seems to have very bad idle temperature of 60° improving it shouldn't be hard. Another method could be to press a normal desktop CPU cooler on the GPU. Since it only needs to last for around 5min that should be manageable. I hope i can help someone who bricked their PS3

@vanderlinde4you Ай бұрын

Bad idle temperature is likely caused due to inefficient use of the GPU in the first place. It's in a always turned on state ; that is what is likely is causing the higher temperature. Second; it's the fan speed thats dialed in to low speeds to keep the noise down. Third; while cooling does improve efficiency of the chip and good cooling might require a lower overall voltage or higher clock for that matter, it's only within a really tiny window. It's old silicon technology - efficiency is not as good as chips of today. I OC myself too; ive done some WR - even worked with cascade cooling (-40 degree) and did OC's from 600Mhz GPU up to 1380Mhz and such. But the whole PS3 is limited in regards of what it really can do. You won't find highly binned chips in that since consoles have to be as cheap as possible.

@ratlingzombie8705 Ай бұрын

@@vanderlinde4you oh your are right I also noticed that the PS3 is choosing to reduce noise over temperature. That is why suggested using a unregulated fan. Regarding efficiency/stability gains: that is of course dependent on how much you can decrease temperature. I recently replaced my CPU cooler. It dropped Temperature under full load from 82°C to ~64°C that resulted in higher stability ( I was able to increase the OC from 4,3Ghz to a previously non bootable 4,4Ghz without changing any voltage settings) and a power usage decrease from ~195W to about 165W so ~15% efficiency gain. Quite significant for 18°C difference. In case of the PS3 you could make a barely unstable overclock (maybe 50mhz too much) stable by decreasing Temperature by 10-15°C. Especially the Video Memory which is often only passively cooled could benefit from that. But you're right that it probably wouldn't make enough difference to justify work for normal use. I only suggested to diy for a short time to reflash stable firmware

@vanderlinde4you Ай бұрын

@@ratlingzombie8705 For better contact your going to have to remove the heatspreader, and use some sort of liquid metal with a full copper block, and proper airflow. Otherwise "watercool" the whole thing. But it's gains are minimal, as the VRM for example is just rated for X amount of watts - you can't exceed that which makes the whole OC pointless. I'm sure that if someone dives into it and is willing to burn a few PS3 consoles here and there, the sweet science might be figured out. And yeah chips do require less voltage and will consume less once the heat is turned down.

@JKSmith-qs2ii Ай бұрын

I have always heard that thermal pads are inferior to thermal paste because they do not fill the air gaps as they are a solid slab. Could you elaborate on what you mean when you talk about them being better a litte?

@sync-on-luma Ай бұрын

In general you're correct, however the thermal pads I'm using are phase-change thermal pads, or more accurately, phase-change thermal compound that comes as a thin sheet. The material is a (very squishy) solid at room temperature, but once it heats up to around 40 degrees Celsius it melts into a liquid and it's thermal conductivity jumps up massively.

@JKSmith-qs2ii Ай бұрын

@@sync-on-luma I am seriously considering using these pads in the future just to compare for myself as well. Honeywell has no presence in my country so I might have to import some PTM7950 pads. Thank you for the response.

@sync-on-luma Ай бұрын

I've had great luck with it over the past year or so installing in laptops and a couple other game consoles. The temperature improvement is only a degree to two at best in my experience, but the fact that it basically never goes bad it was makes it great for certain types of devices. Just be careful when ordering it. I've heard there are counterfeit versions out there that behave mostly the same but have worse thermal properties.

@7hgogx448 Ай бұрын

i dont know but this video is good

@TABandiTA Ай бұрын

Interesting, i will try this out on my slim.

@rodrigoterrasanta5966 Ай бұрын

2:20 is it me or same voltaje and higher clocks = higher power consumption and not the same power as the video says. Hence the higher temperatures

@suspendedhatch Ай бұрын

What would be amazing is if community romhackers could optimized the games to make use of multiple GPU cores.

@kyky121911 3 күн бұрын

If you still got the evilnat firmware could you make a link for it i dont trust other ones and wanna give this a shot

@crummyone Ай бұрын

instructions unclear... My PS3 now cooks toasted bread

@vdochev Ай бұрын

LOL, they all do, mate! 🤣

@2fernandoc1 Ай бұрын

If you want to test more games in the future, can you try out Sonic Unleashed and see how much better it performs?

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

It performs better. But that game is cursed.

@dolbyprologicii 22 күн бұрын

how did you do the osd? how to display fps and stuff??

@sync-on-luma 20 күн бұрын

it's a feature of WebManMOD. Press L3+R3 on the XMB to enable it.

@F599 Ай бұрын

Question why would you go to such hassle when you have RPCS3?

@Tanzu15 Ай бұрын

It’s an emulator and it’s not fully stable or perfect. Plus you need a strong ass cpu. That emulator is not what anyone wants.

@P4ndaGamesBrNoCeuTemPao Ай бұрын

Sonic Unleashed could use more FPS and this could actually help running it better 👀 wonder if someone tried it out after overclocking

@mynameisgeorge7095 28 күн бұрын

I found video that test Sonic unleashed but even overclocking cannot help those game 700-750 oc only got 18 fps max 21😂

@kirollosromany8422 Ай бұрын

bro correct me if im wrong but u didnt peel the tpm7950 wich means that it still has plastic on it

@sync-on-luma Ай бұрын

You're supposed to leave the plastic in the side you're not applying until it's time to put put the heat sink on.

@SuperNova_2097-nq4ns Ай бұрын

So does thermal pads make a difference over paste? In terms of cooling. I ask because recently replaced my paste 🥴

@Timsturbs Ай бұрын

as i know thermal pads make sense only you have multiple items sitting on the same heatsink, otherwise polishing both surfaces to flat mirror to the point even a smallest drop of paste will all be squeezed out is the best option.

@sync-on-luma Ай бұрын

The pads I'm using aren't normal thermal pads. They're a phase-change material that melts into a liquid when they reach over 40 degrees.

@SuperNova_2097-nq4ns Ай бұрын

@@sync-on-luma Gotcha

@sanitaires Ай бұрын

25** поздние - только nen (после 1D), как 30**. Про тепрмопрокладки на VRM можно не забывать. Смысла большого нет менять сверху теплораспределителя, термопасту на лучшие.