Released PS5 Disassembled Video Huge Fans, Heat Sinks, Liquid Metal Heat Conductors, Vacuum Dust Collectors – Engadget Japanese Version

Sony has released the official video teardown of the PlayStation 5.

At the same time as the user-friendly maintenance procedure, you can see the whole picture, such as a huge cooling fan, a heat sink and a thermal conductor (thermal interface material) using liquid metal material.

There is talk that the PlayStation 5 is one or two times larger than the current PS4, and it is clear that the reason is the large-scale cooling system.

Due to the large cooling mechanism, we often see the association that “it must be large-scale cooling, that is, the heat generation must be large and noisy”, but in thermal design at least, it is always fair.

If you calculate with a processor with the same energy efficiency, it consumes as much energy as the performance and it always turns into heat, and it is the same for all the devices that you need to let it escape to the outside in some way.

Liquid metal is used for TIM (Thermal Interface Material) which efficiently transfers heat from the processor to the huge heat sink.

The larger the diameter of the cooling fan, the more air can be sent even at low speeds, reducing the noise heard and cooling well. (Of course, there are many factors such as the type of fan, the shape of the wings, the design of the airflow and the acoustic design of the motor and the whole case, as well as the diameter.)

The PS5 cooling fan is double-sided inlet type with a diameter of 120mm and a thickness of 45mm. It takes in air from the front and escapes through the exhaust port in the back.

The slot for expanding the storage capacity is near the fan without the white cover. With an M.2 interface connected to PCIe 4.0 NVMe, you can use a commercially available M.2 SSD that Sony has verified to meet standards for speed and form.

Also interesting is the fact that there are two dust collectors that make it easy for the user to clean the accumulated dust.

Even if the cooling mechanism and fan are excellent, gaming machines that tend to sit close to the ground will absorb and accumulate dust over the years, which can lead to inefficiency and noise. Since the range that can be disassembled by the user is limited, it is good news that the design is carefully designed to avoid dust.

Sayana.

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