PlayStation 3 - Silicon Level Teardown - 10 Year Anniversary - Page 1
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author: flextard
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2016, 01:38:00 am
content: Hey guys,I am starting a 'little' project.Since yesterday (17/11/2016) was the 10th launch anniversary of the PlayStation 3, I'm compelled to finally do something with my YLOD unit.I want to extract all dies and post pictures and updates here as I go along.It will depend on the level of frustration, but I might also do a couple videos for youtube; on a"zombie"channel I started a while ago.My plan is to decap all chips by the end of November and image by Christmas. Maybe have a microscope livestream around xmas / new year.More info to come...Wish me luck and let me know if anything.Cheers.PS: Some motherboard pics below.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5EkGVz1ZBSwbkNlaEcyd3V1RVEhttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5EkGVz1ZBSwM0xpMm1tT3llbEUhttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5EkGVz1ZBSwemFqalF6cHJmbjQhttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5EkGVz1ZBSwQ3NPekFGY1RUcVkhttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5EkGVz1ZBSwTnRJLVNnN19LUW8https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5EkGVz1ZBSwcnFVMFU2emJlbVU

author: flextard
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2016, 01:44:06 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on November 18, 2016, 01:40:11 amThis thing got so hot that the fan shroud melted.(I'm not the first owner. It came to me in 'iffy' condition already)

author: flextard
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2016, 01:57:39 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on November 18, 2016, 01:50:17 amWow, thanks for the info.I then assume that those are the bastards shorting the cpu and gpu rails.

author: flextard
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2016, 02:02:52 am
content: I'm now tempted to strip those things out first and jump them to see if the thing boots.

author: flextard
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2016, 02:09:35 am
content: Haha, that's what I call a bodge.

author: flextard
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2016, 02:30:37 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on November 18, 2016, 02:13:08 amI see. I had come across this flip-chip bump issue a few months ago through Louis Rossmann's youtube channel. The reflowing hype never struck me well either.I heat gunned this ps3 once and it worked for a day, then I gave up. It was a freebie.I recently became suspicious about shorted capacitors, but didn't realise that the OE128 was a cap (thought it was a magnetic filter). It feels like the short is lower impedance at the actual pads of the OE128's, so maybe... I'll take them out first and report on that.

author: flextard
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2016, 02:37:00 am
content: Here is an old ATI flip-chip GPU.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5EkGVz1ZBSwOGx5WFpzLTdSdzAI extracted it early in the year but haven't sanded it down yet./Edit: link replaced

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2016, 05:03:47 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on November 18, 2016, 01:50:17 amIn the case of the Toshibas, putting a part rated for only 1000h at 105C right underneath the CPU is just planned obolescence.