PS5 is barely 2 cm thick? It is possible thanks to water cooling

Thick and bulky, the PlayStation 5 could become slim and discreet…provided it’s heavily modified to adapt the water-cooling circuit. An ambitious mod, Tried and Succeeded by DIY Perks YouTube Channel.

If I could buy one, it would be PlayStation 5 Now she’s probably cluttering up your TV cabinet…or flaunting her masculine, masculine figure right next door. I decided not to wait Sony Launching a slimmer version (more slender, but not immediately fitting), YouTuber DIY Perks embarked on a project of extreme slimming the console to make it fit into a case no more than 2cm thick.

The result was great…but so was the degree of adjustment required. To achieve this, the YouTuber manually installed and modified a water-cooling system taken from the PC world.

A modification that you will find difficult to reproduce at home …

After the console was completely disassembled to hold only the motherboard, the person in question had to unscrew the power connector to mount multiple copper plates on the PS5 circuits. The latter, combined with a pressurized hydro-lock on the SoC and manually re-registered, allowed the installation of a functional and even highly efficient hydro-cooling device. on me Forbidden horizon westThus, the custom PS5 manages to stay cool with only 45 degrees of gameplay, versus 75 degrees with the original dissipation system on the same title.

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The other side of the coin, because there is necessarily one side when you want to limit yourself to a 2-cm-thick box: the water-cooling coolant (allows to cool the water passing through the water block) and the power supply block must be placed in a long secondary box, designed to be placed in the back of the TV stand … and thus “invisible”.

It’s certainly amazing that this PlayStation 5 mod remains especially challenging. In addition to the huge budget required to assemble the required components and equipment and a great deal of technical know-how required for the process. An operation that can also lead to major failures of the console if it is not carried out according to the rules of art … or if something unexpected happens, as at the end of the video.

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