ken do you have anything to say for
yourself about this abomination about
this travesty that's in front of me
right now I didn't think so hey guys
this is Austin this disaster that sits
in front of me are some of the most
popular ps4 accessories now sure unlike
a game PC which you can fully customize
a ps4 is pretty much what you get is
well what you get however what I'm
curious about is whether any of the
stuff is remotely worth it so to start
with we have the Nyko intercooler so
they claim that this is going to direct
hot air away from the console which in
theory is going to be a thing that
actually could be really helpful
especially with the old fat kiss 4 it
could get really loud under load so
other things that drew me to the
intercooler is that this actually is
fairly well integrated into the ps4
design so as you'll see a second here it
basically just clips right on and that's
pretty much it so what we can have here
is it looks like one large fan and a
couple of smaller fans and the cool part
is it actually has its own power
pass-through so you need to turn this
thing on or off or any extra cables it
should just go on the back this just
clips into place I think that actually
integrates pretty well I've got to say
so it's even the sort of same two-tone
finish on the back you still have access
to all of your ports and you can still
plug in the power cable right here now
I'm curious how well it'll actually work
but it's worth a shot so if you're
rockin the ps4 slammer pro then Dobby
has you covered so this is the p4 series
multifunctional cooling stand we'll see
exactly how a multi-functional it really
is so the idea here is that not only can
you actually get a standard you can also
mount your controllers as well as some
games all in the one stand so here a
little bit bigger this product can
decrease the temperature for the ps4
effectively improving its performance
and decreasing the power loss the power
loss so while these cooling products
claim to lower the temperature of the
ps4 that really shouldn't give you more
performance the real advantage of the
thing I'm going to be looking for is if
temperatures come down in theory family
should come down and potentially
longevity of your ps4 should be improved
a little bit but we'll see so this is
made for everything from the fad ps4 to
the slim to the pro so if you have a
slim it drops in here but if we have the
oh we should be able to get it in
something like this actually fits pretty
well so there's nothing really holding
it in besides friction on the bottom we
do have those wait what
it's really only pulling a little bit of
air from here I mean they look like
reasonable sized fans but how is that
gonna drive any significant air flow
into the ps4 next up we have something a
little bit more simple this is a ps4 USB
hub so as the name suggests it's pretty
straightforward
it turns the two USB ports on the front
the ps4 into five so this is
specifically made for the fad ps4 so in
the back we have a pair of USB ports and
on the front we have one USB 3 which is
a pass-through and four standard USB two
it should be pretty much as simple just
lining it up and that's it again I
appreciate how well this actually fits
with the original design so even with
this and the intercooler it doesn't
really look like a Frankenstein I mean
at least not yet
now it's time for the big guns this is
the donk Oh game bar now that name
doesn't really tell you much but what
this is going to allow you to do is
install a full desktop hard drive into
your ps4 infinity storage super speed
dissipation and stability man I am
excited for this one oh boy here we go
oh that looks that looks like a lot so
this is going to require just a little
bit of surgery on our ps4
however it's not going to be bad so the
ps4 as well as the ps4 slamming ps4 pro
all have removable hard drives so this
is going to allow us to do is instead of
using a small two and a half inch drive
like from a laptop to actually use a
full desktop drive this is feeling like
a dumber and dumber idea each second so
essentially this should kind of go and
replace this top piece so this glossy
piece right here just pops right off and
inside normally you would just replace
the hard drive here however it's gonna
be a little bit more involved with this
guy so to start we're gonna take out the
puny 500 gigabyte hard drive in favor of
something just a little bit beefier so
to really go all out we're upgrading
this with a four terabyte hard drive
however this actually supports up to six
terabytes if you really need all the
storage you can on top of that they
actually just announced a new ps4
firmware update that will allow you to
actually put games on external USB
drives so if you
I get crazy with it you could put a ton
of storage in your ps4 so I just need to
set the SATA cable in like that and I
can close the whole thing up so all this
is is really just a pass-through so once
we're ready we just slide it in to the
standard ps4 slot and screw it in
alright here goes nothing
so we want to run all of our power and
data this little slot here okay actually
that works no we just need to drop the
hard drive in like this and that's a
very stable but besides that we just
have to attach the cable and in theory
we pretty much have a four terabyte ps4
oh it totally fits ha ha ha ha we've
created a monster
dude if this is about to work I'm gonna
be so happy this is I gotta say this
might be the proudest moment of my
entire life this is a masterpiece of
elegant Japanese engineering or that's
all Ken's fault so one quick firmware
update later we have the ultimate
Frankenstein ps4 up and running and as
you can hear it's kind of loud we also
have the Energizer extra life for the
controller so this is a dot that comes
with an external battery that clips on
the bottom of the controller so it
doesn't really get in the way when
you're actually playing a game first
thing I want to check to see if our
storage is here so there we go 3.5 1
terabytes of free space now with so many
ps4 shipping with a 500 gigabyte hard
drive it can really get cramped quickly
so this is uncharted 4 and it looks
swell exactly like uncharted 4 so what
I'm curious about are the temperatures I
can pretty confidently say that this is
louder than a normal ps4 but I'm curious
whether that loudness actually does
anything so the ps4 with the intercooler
and the cooling stand top that around 49
degrees with the exhaust however when
you take all that stuff off and run
eight eight tops out at about 50 that
shouldn't be a huge surprise so the
intercooler is just adding additional
fans for the exhaust is still restricted
by how much intake air can actually get
into the ps4 now the cooling stand in
theory would actually help things by
giving it some fresh air however the
actual
takes themselves are tiny and really not
able to make a big difference so is any
of this worth it kind of so first of all
the Energizer extra life doc is actually
not bad
the doc itself is clean but most
importantly the battery doesn't get in
the way it legitimately does give you
extra time on the ps4 which brings us to
the game bar so on one hand it actually
works really well once you get past the
setup it's completely seamless and if
you really do need 4 or 6 terabytes of
storage with your ps4 then it's kind of
a no-brainer however if you don't need
that much storage it's a lot easier to
just install a one or two terabyte hard
drive and on top of that the update to
allow you to put games on a USB Drive is
coming soon I do really like the USB hub
so with the ps4 only having two USB
ports especially if you have something
like PlayStation VR set up those ports
disappear quickly which brings us to the
intercooler and the cooling stand don't
buy these the intercooler while it
actually does integrate pretty well and
doesn't really hurt anything I'm not
convinced actually makes any difference
whatsoever
now the stands does give you a few
options like being able to dock your
controllers as well as in theory giving
you a little bit more cooling but again
I don't really believe it's actually
making any significant difference as
always always you guys need to any of
this stuff will be in the description if
you want to go check it out and I'm
curious what do you think about this
monstrosity let me know in the comments
below and I will catch you in the next
one