So I have been a big fan of Sony gaming consoles for years now. I have been loyal to them almost entirely, minus I think a 9 month spell with the original Xbox, since the original PlayStation. So, me being a loyal Sony customer, it broke my heart when I learned that the PS4 was not going to be backwards compatible at all. I thought, "Why Sony? I spent almost 8 years and hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on the PS3, why can't you just give me that?" Regardless, being the Sony fan I am, I had to get the PS4. So, I sold off all my PS3 stuff, including the system, to pick up a brand-spanking new White PS4 Destiny bundle. Now, I haven't played Destiny in ages, but the white system itself looked cool enough, so I had to pick it up.
So that's me about 6 months ago, last November. I also picked up Dragon Age: Inquisition and a bunch of other games. But, there was a whole in my heart I couldn't fill... the gaps left from the last 3 Sony consoles. Then, I had a brilliant idea.
I had just put a new terabyte hard drive in my PS4, since games nowadays take up far to much space. Doing that, I took out the 500GB drive. I then remembered that the original 20GB PS3 was fully backwards compatible with all PS2 and PS1 games. I saw through Game Stop that I could pick one up for $100. I decided to go with it. I went to Game Stop and picked up the console, and threw the 500GB drive in it. Now, I lost my first PS3, which was made in the same line as the one I just picked up to the Yellow Light of Death. The YLOD is caused by the processors overheating, expanding, and breaking their connection to the motherboard. This isn't helped by the fact that Sony uses really cheap thermal paste, which is the heat transfer medium that takes the heat from the thermal plates on the processor and puts it in the heat sink, which is then expelled by the fan. In my research, I saw that the best ways to try and prevent the YLOD from occurring is to replace the thermal paste and buy a 19-blade fan as opposed to the 15-blade fan that most PS3's have in them. So I bought the paste (not the fan), and found a tutorial that showed me how to take it all apart.
I was pretty scared while doing it, but thankfully everything seems to be going OK. When I took it apart, I saw that my model already has the 19 blade fan, so good thing I didn't buy that! I also purchased an external fan attachment, so hopefully nothing will cause this sucker to overheat. I'm hoping to enjoy this backwards compatible, enhanced beauty for at least 3 years, but we'll see what happens! For now, back to some Bethesda wonderfulness with Fallout 3, Skyrim, and Oblivion!
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