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In a recent PlayStation Blog post, PS5 Pro Mechanical Design Lead Shinya Tsuchida and PS5 Pro Electrical Design Lead Shinya Hiromitsu did a teardown of the enhanced console. They explained the ...

Sony has published a new teardown of the PlayStation 5 Pro, highlighting improvements that it made to the cooling apparatus of the machine. They include tweaks to the PS5’s liquid metal cooling design ...

(a) Working principle and (b) overall diagram of synergetic cooling LMFCC. I: charging current; U: voltage. (c) Three-dimensional schematic and (d) two-dimensional driving mechanism diagram of compact ...

TL;DR: Sony's use of liquid metal cooling in the PlayStation 5 causes liquid metal to drip inside vertically placed consoles, creating dry spots on the APU that lead to unexpected shutdowns during ...

Reports of PS5’s liquid metal cooling potentially harming systems when placed vertically first surfaced in 2023, but were largely dismissed until a teardown of the PS5 Pro revealed that the issue was ...

Not for the faint of heart: Although using liquid metal on processors instead of thermal paste can significantly lower temperatures, one mistake during its application can lead to catastrophic damage.

All electronics generate heat, and that heat must be removed to ensure those electronics don’t overheat. Moving air has been the predominant approach for decades, with liquid cooling limited to ...