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They are usually white, gray or black in color. It's important to note that several ICs on the motherboard have pads which allow them to sink their heat to the frame.
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At this point it's only held in place by a few final screws, and some "hinge tabs" at one end, requiring you to tilt the frame up and pull it out. Next, remove the metal frame from around the motherboard. We'll replace this with Arctic Silver thermal compound, as we did in the Xbox 360 Laptop. White thermal grease can be found on the CPU / GPU, much like on the PS2. The PS3 motherboard with the radiator off. Let's pull the PS3 apart further, shall we? The discs are still too expensive if you ask me. This photo is a bit old, well before HD-DVD bought the farm, and I'd labeled a Blu-ray drive as an albatross, but now it appears Sony probably gambled and won with that idea. This is the baby that allows you to watch "Die Hard 4" at the bargain price of $35. (More on this later) As for the LED's, they can also be rewired as they are fairly simple. We can leave this circuit board where it is, and simply attach wires to the capacitance button tabs to put the touch sensors elsewhere. Well, technically the eject and power buttons work with capacitance, kind of like those metal lamps you can touch to turn on. (More on this when we get to the Blu-ray drive.) (It's fairly useless anyway, if you ask us.) On older machines, things like this can be kept or simply moved by rewiring their connections, but on the PS3 everything is connected by 0.5mm pitch flat ribbon cables, and thus is practically impossible to rewire by hand. Since we're already going to take up space keeping the WiFi board the card reader pretty much has to go. This part of the PS3 must remain, not only for the WiFi, but for the controllers to work. This connects to the main motherboard via a flat ribbon cable and also has a small antenna attached via a cord, much like the Wii.
What does a ps3 console id look like Bluetooth#
Below that, we see the WiFi / Bluetooth module.
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However unlike the 360 / Wii this does not power the USB when the unit is off.
What does a ps3 console id look like Pc#
These provide a 5 volt "rail" power (always on) that allows the PS3 to sense the front buttons and power itself on, much like a PC or the Xbox 360. In the front of the PSU are a few small wire connections. This is done via a large copper 2 pronged plug that we'll see a bit later. It accepts the AC wall power input and converts it to 12 volts DC for the PS3's main power supply.