PlayStation 5 Teardown: up-close and personal , console uses liquid metal TIM

Either they have a new, great liquid metal, or they just want to sell new consoles a few years later, a refresh / shrink so that people spend twice the money on the console

Is it just me or does that PCB look... rather empty? When I look at my GPU's PCB, it's packed, but this... looks kind of spaced far in between to lower manufacturing costs.

 

Hes very small lol

 

Its spreads heat generation out, look at the size of the heatsink complex, its why Nvidia needed a funky cooler because of how packed their board was.

 

Of course you are right, it helps with heat dissipation. It's just that it shouldn't be necessary... so much space should easily cool that console, after all it's got only a SOC, with little to nothing else to cool. But I guess that's ultimately the reason behind the huge console, the "far and in between" PCB, and the liquid metal.

 

5:11 - top right corner of PCB. that thing has heatpipe cooling as can be seen in cooling plate removal.
(Anyone has guess what that is for? WiFi?)

 

Seems like it, he even removes the antenna from it at 4:17.

 

Not bad Sony not bad , I wonder if that liquid metal is made by Sony themselves or it is the conductonaut . If its Sony's own good quality and it does not dry out after 1 year they should start selling it .

 

Looks like the SSD controller is in the same area.

EDIT: SSD is on the opposite side that may be a chipset.

 

Or one tiny Japanese engineer... which is probably more likely.

 

Do you think there is a possibility they chose a petite employee to make the console look bigger than it is? Because...39cm is not that big, for a console...

 

Huh? PS5 is huge for a console...

 

I was just clarifying that I was referring to a console...and nothing else

I just measured my equipment, and yes, it is larger than the PS4 Pr0 I got, but; it is smaller than my UHD Blu-ray Player...

 

Lose in terms of what?

 

You most definitely not "need to reapply liquid metal" regularly at all. I have my 8700K delided with Conductonaut and it's been almost a year now since I last applied it, and there is no thermal degradation whatsoever. Same voltage/same ambient=same CPU/core temps months later.
It's a smart choice for the console.

 

High priced custom NVMe drive? Enough said?

 

They'll definitely have custom panels which is kinda cool. Surprised we haven't seen one for Cyberpunk and Black Ops yet.

 

Yeah that was part of the mainboard, so it's not interchangeable, unless i'm looking at the wrong part. Also that heatsink and fan are insane. This should cool it very well. Looks like a very solid build. My son keeps hassling me to get him one for Christmas.

 

I've seen a pic of the Spiderman one and that looks real cool.

 

If only it was real.

 

Oh bugger, I really thought it was.