Topic: Dust.

I have been watching a few videos on how to clean the dust from the fan and vents some go a lot further and dismantle most of it to get to the vents, could i ask if dust is a major problem causing overheating or is it just an old wives tale?

How often do you clean the internals and how deep do you go?

What do you use?

@Max_Headroom so I hadn’t really thought about it until all the reports of Final Fantasy XVI bricking PS5’s… so when I was about to start the game I watched a few vids the night before on how to clean the PS5, thinking that I’d get it all ship-shape before splaying FFXVI the following day.

After watching the vids though, I in no way fancied taking my PS5 apart to the extent of just a rudimentary clean (fan removal etc.) so I just chanced playing FFXVI without cleaning the console and touch wood all is well.

This seems a good guide he doesn't remove the fan and says do not use the cans of air just a vac with a nozzle and a paint brush.

All I do is remove the covers and get rid of the dust without taking the fan out. It is super easy. The trickiest part I found was putting the covers back on, but even was hardly a ball ache.

Thanks, how often do you do this?

@Max_Headroom About once a year. Both times I've done it there has been minimal dust to clear.

Thank, that is good news.

To be honest I just use a can of compressed air to clean my systems and they work fine. No need really to tear apart the system. I guess if you want you could get something to put over your console like a dust cover when it's not in use as well.

Thanks.

@colonelkilgore How long do you have your PS5?

@sd7232 I was lucky enough to have got my pre-order made in time, so got mine on launch day… so 3 years. How about you?

I was not able to score one until April last year.

My unit still works fine, but I always worry about dust build up inside.

Don’t have skill to take apart to clean myself, so may take in for a cleaning service….or maybe even trade in and ‘upgrade’ to slim model which may net cost around same as a cleaning.

Have you taken the covers off in that time to check for dust build up?

I probably wont remove the fan if the guy in the video doesn't think its necessary it'll do for me

@Max_Headroom I only removed cover last year to add SSD. Will get to it now that got me thinking about at least going that far. Thanks.

(Off-topic….Are you aware of the “Max Headroom broadcast incident” that happened in 1987? Worth checking out the video for a little chuckle.)

@Max_Headroom nah… I’m a bit heavy handed and after watching a few videos on even a rudimentary clean, I thought I would be better off (or my PS5 would be better off) with me not messing about with it.

I never cleaned my PS4 (nor my PS3 for that matter) and their both still kicking, so I’ll carry on with that philosophy until **** hits the fan as it were 😅

@colonelkilgore I hope that is not the case!

I do think people worry too much about stuff like this. You see some of these photos of a PS5 covered in dust, but that is a worse case scenario and not every console is going to get like that. There is certainly no harm in taking off the covers and having a check, as that is super easy to do.

But dismantling it and taking the fan out, or replacing the console just because just something could be wrong, is madness in my eyes.