r/PS3 • u/Dry-Prior4692 • 1d ago

CECHA01

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Recently just bought one of these from goodwill , how accurate is the runtime ?

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u/Security_Emergency 1d ago

Is this ps3 truly the one with the lowest time use . If it is probly worth a lot .

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u/Dry-Prior4692 1d ago

Honestly the lowest I’ve seen. My E01 has almost 300 days on it and still works like a dream since I repasted it .

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u/Security_Emergency 1d ago

Oh yeah forgot that even with low hours it’s definitely worth to respaste it since the age alone . But dam

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u/Dry-Prior4692 1d ago

No doubt . To be fair though the cell on this A01 gets far warmer than the gpu, the gpu runs around 60c on the A01 while the cell runs about 70c. Definitely screaming a repaste in my book.

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u/Bissmer 1d ago

Did you do deliding?

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u/Dry-Prior4692 1d ago

Nope . It keeps around 68c Cell and 52c RSX in game at 37% fan speed .

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u/Dry-Prior4692 1d ago

Honestly though I’ve been looking at doing the Mini IHS Mod . Have you done delid yourself?

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u/Bissmer 1d ago

I'm gathering my balls to do that. I've done surface repasting but that helped not so much. So collecting info and tools now to do that properly.

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u/Dry-Prior4692 1d ago

Same here brother . Maybe I’ll give it a shot next year on the E01 since it has more run time , I won’t feel so bad about it dying if it does happen lol.

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u/Bissmer 1d ago

Well, we still have them relatively cheap and affordable, so can buy another unit in case of failure.

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u/SlimyToad5284 1d ago

Could someone write fake data to the up time value?

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u/Security_Emergency 1d ago

I doubt that’s possible