Rumour: Sony Paying More for Top Quality Cooling System in PS5

PS5 has leaked

Interesting.

I wonder if noise management is playing more of a factor in the eventual final design too.

It makes me wonder how conspicuous the Series X might be; with it's top firing vents likely to limit where it can be placed, it could become a bit too noisy. 🤔

@BearsEatBeets Booting up God of Boy 2 for the first time

My niece visiting me while I'm playing Monster Hunter World.

I never play my PS4 with it in the cabinet. I pull it out and put it on the floor. I never hear the fan that way. It's not ideal, but it works.

Omg these gifs yall are posting are freakin hilarious lololol

Watching the intro to HZD 2

Yep after the Pro they really need to look into the cooling system, that is one area where the Xbox One X excels

Well, you could say Sony have listened to their fans 😏

I have to say, I’m a big fan of cooling systems.

This is welcome news, as much as I enjoy my PS4 Pro sounding like a airline taking flight when playing Monster Hunter.

@Arugula glad you enjoyed it!
I'm quite bad at making actually funny jokes 😆

Cyberpunk with ray tracing

I'll stop now. Oh yeah it's really good Sony is taking this matter seriously.

Anything from keeping that sucker from whistling like my old original PS4.

We'll be adding coolant to our playstations before ya know it folks

Considering the rumoured speeds the GPU and CPU are running at, cooling will be very important and its better to have a great cooling system than YLOD or RROD...

I think the fan noise is a good thing.
Whenever I slip in a crafty gaming session my missus thinks I'm doing the vacuuming, so it keeps me in the good books.

Seriously this is a good thing. The racket my Pro makes these days makes headphones a must for my gaming.

@BearsEatBeets you were waiting the perfect news to post those pics don't you??? 🤣🤣🤣

I guess I'm one of the few whos Ps4 Pro runs silent, never cleaned the fans once either.

Rumor: Customers paying more for necessary PS5 cooling system improvements

I read "spending more" as that funky flying V shaped design with its series of never ending vents, which certainly would help keep it cool but also has to be a lot more expensive to design and manufacture than a box, even one that looks like a sandwich.

So maybe it's really gonna look like this?

My Pro does get a bit loud, but to be honest I only ever notice it during very quiet parts in some games. It doesn't just get louder and louder the longer it's in use.

I have my audio through my hi-fi, but I don't have it particularly loud, and I don't usually hear the fan at all. Probably the worst and most consistent offender I've noticed is FIFA during the contract negotiations; the fan always spins up to maximum during those, but it slows right back down when that part is done, and barely makes a sound when I'm actually playing a match.

Mine's on the middle shelf of a glass TV stand, with excellent ventilation all around.

My ps4 is silent but my ps4 pro is noisy when playing some games, it's not that loud since the game noise is more loud than the fan noise but it's little annoying. I hope ps5 is silent like the original ps4.

Better cooling is always better.

Like my older brother always says:

The two big things that kill internals are heat and dust.

@Shepard93n7 I had literally just posted the first pic on one of the forum posts when the article came up. After that I got a bit carried away.

@carlos82 yes, exactly. I think the X has a liquid based cooling and it's really or totally quiet 🤷‍♂️, don't know for sure but PS5 should go the same way.

The problem is you have to disassemble the PS4 to clean the heat sink. You can easily clean the fan only. A low cost improvement would be air intake dust filters and access to clean both fan and heat sink. many people never even clean the fan. A larger exit port would help with the wind noise. Xbox has the right idea with that big one on top.

I mostly own digital games, but i have noticed that my ps pro seems louder when i play a game that requires a disc. The fan really seems to kick in while reading the disc.

1. My OG ps4 is not 'noisy'. Only when starting a game on disc for a few sec.
2.you forgot to quote what hes saying the article:
'unusually expensive at A FEW DOLLARDS per unit. Typically, companies would spend LESS THAN A DOLLARD, '
Okay? Astonishing 🙃
Sounds like a satire haha

Edit
It sounds like a good effort from Sony, and that was expected but the author Takashi Mochisuki using the buzz words 'expensive' 'lavish' seem typical of his usual disinformation, exaggeration.

"No more fan noise?"

we can only hope at this point, since the head honcho hardware designer clearly didnt give a crap about it when he did the ps4.

but with that said, i find it strange that no one is talking about the on board sdd that have a life expectation of 5 years with 50gb dowload each day (and games are creeping over 100gb download as we speak). after those 5 years you better start praying so your ps5 dont die. because a few years ago everyone was worried about the life expecations of sdd hard drives. but these sdd hard drives you could change with a new, on the ps5 if your on board sdd dies you are f**ked.

@rjejr What sandwiches are you eating that look like a V shaped hunk of plastic? 🤣

@TheBuzz Even if you did buy a new game every day you would still put far less pressure on the SSD than for an application like a dash cam which overwrites its whole memory every few hours. SSDs are more reliable and longer lasting than hard drive unless you overwrite the whole thing several thousand times. You’d have to delete and then and install about 4 TB of games every day to get to a five year life expectancy.

@Ryall Not to mention, even when an SSD dies, all the data is preserved and readable. It just can't be written to. So much better than a HDD in every way.

@JohnnyShoulder "What sandwiches"

When I wrote "a lot more expensive to design and manufacture than a box, even one that looks like a sandwich."

I was referring to the PS4 Pro sandwich.

My Pro used to get quite loud, weirdly on cut scenes more than anything else. Ever since I upgraded the 1Tb HDD to a 1Tb Crucial SSD, everything is quiet.
The only time I hear even a peep out of it is when it's rendering in 4K using the super sampling to get down to 1080p and so it's doing twice the work.

I'll take quiet & good cooling over super fast loading anytime! Playing on PC desk, sometimes my PS4 is so loud that I have to wear headphone to listen to the game

@ellsworth004 PS4 doesn't read from disc when playing a game. It's only used as an 'access key' for the data installed on the hard drive... it spins up when you insert it, then stops shortly after the game starts. While playing, all data is read from HDD, whether you buy digital or physical.