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- lorensingley, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25@ shrewduser - Yeah. No doubt in my mind the system will have fans in there. The PS3 is really turning out to be a very high quality machine, less like a gaming console and more like a computer than any in the past. In my view, the 500-600 dollar price tag is actually reasonable for the cutting edge technology and capabilities of this machine, like the blu-ray player, cell processor, HDMI 1.3 connector, free online play, and the ability to run linux... From a pure gamer's standpoint, who would not watch blu-ray movies or install linux on the machine, maybe the price is unreasonable, I agree, but only because you are only going to be using a fraction of what the machine can offer. But you have to realize that any other blu-ray player STANDALONE is 50% more expensive or more.
- recon16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15we will hold you to that haha!
- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16my graphics card uses heatpipes to cool itself... 55 degrees celcius idle, 70 under load...
long story short unless you also have a fan in there too, they can't possibly defy the laws of physics and somehow keep your stuff cool....
they move heat around much in the same way that a water cooling solution would, the heat still has to dissapate somehow, i'm clarifying this because the digg poster seems to be under the impression that they're magical... - GT35R, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13What the hell are you talking about. The Wii is not nearly as powerful as the PS3 or the Xbox360, overcourse itll run cooler.
- Darren07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Of course it'll have some sort of fans as well, but heatpipes can transfer the heat to a different area of the console, creating a better airflow overall.
- KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10*Starts googling "goat balls for sale."*
- stappawho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Based on "rumors" I'll be bangin Jessica Simpson tonight.
I love rumors. - ACalcutt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I also hold you to that
- recon16, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10well if it is anything like the shuttle pcs that i build at work it goes to the back, to some sort of heat sink thing that distributes it into the air...
- truspector, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13If PS3 manages to launch on their new scheduled release date with 1 million+ consoles I will be willing to suck on some goat balls.
- recon16, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Yup, but I have always been a XBOX person, but I can vouch for sony, I have installed some of these in Shuttle PCs, and they work great!
- npsken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The official spec sheet says noise equivalent to that of the pstwo (the mini one). Something makes me doubt that one, but hey... it might be true.
- SimonX314, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Do they have working hardware in displayed show cases they have been showing us? Because I have only seen concept art and heard rumors that the cell yields where low and the cases were to small to adequately dissapate the heat that the PS3 produced.
- BentSea, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9That does not mean there wont be tons of fans. It just means they'll be a little more efficient.
- bobeotm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11This would also mean that the PS3 is pretty quiet, since there wont be tons of fans whirring. It might have been essential given the amount of heat they would have to deal with, this may have been their only option.
- KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12"From a pure gamer's standpoint, who would not watch blu-ray movies or install linux on the machine, maybe the price is unreasonable,"
The market of these hybrid consumers you speak of, those who have lots of disposable income, play games AND are audio/videophiles HAS to be pretty slim pickings.
If you are a gamer, you are going to buy a gaming box, and probably dont care about watching movies in 1080p, especially since youll have to get a new tv for all that. If youre a home-theater guy, then the PS3 just aint going to cut it for your high-def DVD player needs. Youre going to buy that $1000 Blu-Ray player, with all the features has that Sony cut from the PS3 blu-ray player to save cost.
Look at the PSP and UMPCs, needlessly hybrid stuff like that just doesnt work, and the consumer base for it is very small. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10yes it will be quiet, very quiet, now calm down.
- GT35R, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The only person who says that is that ***** "phantom insider" from Kotaku.com who susposedly IMed them telling them this kinda of bs.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Are they really going to be able to launch this Fall with a product that won't melt an entertainment center?
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13Doesn't the 360 have some sort of vapor phase change heatsink?
and the Wii? well Nintendo was smart enough to make it run nice and cool from the start. - eevyl, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8The most funny part IMHO is when Kutaragi says that "The power supply could almost be sold separately."
Well, Kutaragi San, I dare you to sell the power suply separately from the 600$ thing. I bet the look in the face of the people taking the PS3 out of the box to realize they cannot power it unless they return to the gaming shop and buy a 100$ power supply (just guessing) would be the priceless moment of the year. - neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10problem being, where are the heatpipes going to take the heat to? hopefully not the body of the PS3, cause then you could cook breakfast on it.
- thestevo, on 10/12/2007, -16/+18Ahh, the Emperor's clothes continue to get more elaborate and expensive...
- compnski, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Most laptops have heatpipes as well, it doesn' seem such a big deal
- Bioshocker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6TBH, I don't really give a ***** *how* it cools itself.
I just want to know whether it will be quiet or annoyingly noisy. - jool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Seriously, is heat pipe cooling that special anymore? It's used in almost all new hardware that is small and needs to move the heat somewhere where they can put a fan.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'll send you a sparkler on the release date. You, however, are responsible for lighting it.
- chaosgasket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I believe that they mean that it is so well designed that they could sell it for other commercial purposes, not that they are going to make people purchase it seperately.
- wtfomg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You've always been an Xbox person? No one can "always" have been an Xbox person. They can love the Xbox, but you had to have played and enjoyed some other system before that was out.
- Tribute85, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5If this whole goat ball thing catches on, expect to see a sony press release announcing a goat ball despensing add-on pack
- staticneuron, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5The only reason why people like me got mad at UMD's was at first there were more movies thatn games for the PSP and second of all they were outragiously expensive. If they were alot cheaper I would have most likely enjoyed the PSP and UMD's
- Awakened1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you look the ps3 has multiple heat pipes leading into a heatsink that is probaly going to be surrounded by fans so its not the same the xbox360 looks like it has 1 or 2....
- chadwn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4From what I have read the 360 uses a similiar cooling system.
http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1145/The-Xbox-360-Dissected/p7/ - NinjaFish, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The 360 does indeed have a heat pipe cooler on its CPU. Photos available here: http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2610&p=7
This is seriously nothing special, and nothing to get excited about. Next, Sony will tell us that the PS3 runs on high-tech "electricity" and outputs to a space-age "television". - Darren07, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2How come this ain't on the front page? Digg v3?
- BewilderedRonin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Holy *****! Sony's using heatpipes! Wow, that changes everything! No wonder the PS3 is so expensive with such cutting edge technology that's been around for years! /sarcasm.
- Amadeus2490, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Re: Truspector
Ya heard it here first! lol
Oo, and assuming the PS3 sells 100 million units, with as huge of a lead as they had with the PS2, i'll shove a lit sparkler in my peehole. - sonick, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Heh, kinda funny since some of the very first release versions of the Dreamcast are fitted with heatpipes rather than the conventional fans that was implemented later soon after the Dreamcasts' Launch.
- schwegler, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3And Sony made fun of the original Xbox why?
- the3dolla, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2"If PS3 manages to launch on their new scheduled release date with 1 million+ consoles I will be willing to suck on some goat balls." I agree with his sentiment, although I will not be doing that if Sony does come through.
Based on "rumors" I don't think Sony will be launching in November. - truspector, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5@antaeus
Yeah, maybe until you turn it on. - ChuckIT, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1i'll hold your balls to that
- KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7Wow, it's not often you see someone who's "always" been a fan of something that's five years old.
- thecatisdead, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5but that's the idea (see http://www.ps3grill.com)
- Darren07, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Some say that it was a 2.8GHz version at E3, with 2GB RAM
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