- This is the PlayStation 5
and we are going to break it.
(scream)
So now that we're going to see what's inside the box,
but we're also going to tear this thing apart.
Look at the size of this box.
Okay wow what a nice unboxing experience.
So if you've actually seen,
we've done an entire video on the DualSense already.
And we may or may not have broken that one as well.
Oh is that a bad luck
that all the PlayStation videos we do
it just ends in destroying things?
- [Ken] It works though!
(box rattling)
- This makes the fat PS3 look reasonable,
are you kidding me?
I hope you got room, 'cause it's big.
I almost called it a big chungus
but I didn't 'cause I've used my chungus quite enough today.
So for the obligatory size comparison,
we have the Xbox series S.
(Austin laughs)
Which is funny.
And then we also have the series X.
So the PlayStation 5 is big.
But why is it so big?
Well there's only one way to find out,
watching the official PlayStation tear down video.
The second best way to find out
is to continue watching this video as I wreck a PS5.
(ding)
Oh yeah that's why you need the stand huh?
Woo look at that!
Look, I'm not gonna be the guy who tells you
that size doesn't matter 'cause it definitely matters
if you're a PlayStation 5.
One of the things that's interesting about the PS5
is that it's supposed to be easy to open up the side panel.
(machine clinks)
(Austin laughing)
Okay so the PlayStation 5
is very easy to remove the side panel.
I definitely just scratched it.
Oh my god,
do you see the size of that scratch I just put on?
Look at that.
Well this is going well isn't it?
As you can see,
the side panel of the PS5 is very easily user removable.
So easy.
Tool-less.
Brainless as well, obviously.
Oh look at that.
That is how to do it gently.
Grasping.
So immediately it's clear
that they're going for a different cooling approach
compared to the series X.
So you can see that we have what I believe is a 120 mil fan
but you actually have clearance on both sides.
So you can see it's open on this side,
as well as this side.
So if you compare this to something like the Xbox series X
which uses honestly
just a much more complicated way of cooling off the console.
So you have dual motherboards,
you have a mid plate, you have vapor chambers.
It's very complicated.
Whereas with the PS5 it seems like Sony's opted
to go for a cheaper and simpler approach.
And the downside there is just simply the console is bigger.
Now you might wonder why has Sony made it so easy
to remove the side panels of the PS5?
Well the big reason for that
is that not only can you clear out dust
from these little traps,
but importantly you can also upgrade the SSD.
So behind this little panel
we should see that there is an M2 slot.
So right here we have a slot for a PCI 4 point O SSD.
Now as of recordings this video
you can't do anything here yet.
So the idea will be a long-term
once it gets a firmer update at some point,
that you will be able to easily upgrade
the storage of your PS5 without needing to buy
some kind of proprietary memory card
like you do on the Xbox.
The main downside to upgrading your PS5
as I accidentally screw my hand,
is that you need a very fast SSD.
So you need to be not only PCI 4 point O,
but in theory at least you need it to by Sony compatible.
So we actually can't test it
since it doesn't work right now.
But stayed tuned to make sure to subscribe to the channel
because we will be taking a closer look
at what kind of SSD options
and how you can upgrade the storage on your PS5.
All right let's plug it in and see,
can you actually run it without the sides on?
(machine beeping)
Oh I see.
Oh yeah that fan's spinning.
You can absolutely do this.
Should you?
Probably not.
But as far as the PlayStation's concerned,
it doesn't care or doesn't even know I guess
if you have the sides on.
What's interesting is, so I can definitely feel,
it is definitely pushes all that air
which it sucks in through this way through the fan
and out the back.
There's like a good little breeze back here.
So what it seems like for the cooling solution
is that all of the cooling
is happening on the top half of the console.
Which kinda makes sense because on the bottom half
you mostly have the disc drive
and I assume the power supply?
Oh yeah.
That works.
Okay.
So if your PS5 is overheating
you can take the side panels off.
You might get dust in there
and it's probably not recommended,
but technically that works.
You know kids are gonna do that.
- [Matt] How much are you actually gonna tear this apart?
- Yes is the answer Matt.
There's probably a very elaborate way to do this.
I'm just gonna start unscrewing things.
All right, there we go.
One T is void.
There we go.
So a little note, if you decide to tear your own PSI apart,
they have a lot of screws and they're all different.
Like, all of 'em.
I'm 12 screws in, now let's remove the fan.
(tool whirring)
Riveting content, watching Austin Evans
label each individual screw so he's not an idiot,
and knows how to put it back together.
So I think those are all the screws.
So.
Well that comes out easily.
Now the fan,
oh wow that just comes-- - Whoa that's cool.
- Out.
Wow I can just feel the breeze.
I mean I feel like this fan
weighs like half an Xbox series S.
So the fan basically is pushing that air
right through those heat pipes.
So far so good.
Let me pull this little cable loose.
The shroud has given up and we have, more shroud.
(Austin laughs)
Here we go.
Okay.
So the optical drive should just come loose now.
That.
That's actually a very oddly large drive.
So of course this is what you use
to watch Blu-Ray's 4K Blu-Ray's
as well as their proprietary hundred gig format
or whatever they use for PS5 discs.
Do you see this?
Look how tiny this little bit of the heat sync is.
Look it just pops out on this side.
So next I'm going to remove these
what I assume are antennae for wifi,
probably like Bluetooth.
I guess we can start undoing the,
oh my god. - That's a lot of screws.
- All right, if these are all different sizes
I'm gonna be labeling screws all night long.
Let's.
Get started shall we? (upbeat music)
These are famous last words.
I will say so far, this has been fairly easy to get into.
At no point have I felt like I was about to break something.
Okay well I'm just
gonna take it apart. - That's literally dangling.
- So you mean I'm almost done?
I hear nothing but positive things right now Matt.
This is what a PS5's supposed to look like I think.
So after removing a couple of dozen screws,
we finally have the heat shield off or the shield.
Shield off.
Wait.
That's not part of the heat sync at all.
They have a separate heat pipe on the back.
So this also serves as a heat sync for the back of the PS5.
So taking a look around here,
this looks to be the SSD
or at least that's what I assume is the SSD.
It's fairly close to the M2 slot.
And then if we slide things over a little bit
you can get a little bit of a better look
at the GDR6 memory, specifically 16 gigs of it on the PS5.
Now something else interesting.
I believe if you can see this little guy right here,
I believe that is the wifi chip.
And something unique about the PS5
is that this actually has wifi 6 unlike the PlayStation 4.
And of course the Xbox series X and series S,
all of which have the older wifi 5.
Just a nice little feature.
Now I think the board should just come out.
Oh!
I've got a lot more screws to undo don't I?
- Yeah you do. - Yes you do.
- That is a bizarre looking heat sync.
So you actually have these like cross heat pipes.
Do you even PlayStation bro?
So what's left inside the chassis
is almost entirely the power supply.
Which is.
370 watts, so that's actually a pretty beefy power supply.
I can't imagine the PS5 actually needs that.
But you can see the overall volume of the PS5.
The power supply takes up a pretty huge chunk of that.
It's fine, it's fine, it's not going anywhere.
Fine.
We can pretty quickly undo the last couple of screws.
The only problem is, it likely is going to be terminal.
So on the underside of this heat sync
there is thermal compounds
specifically known as liquid metal.
Liquid metal is something
which has never really been used before
in certainly a game console, and really in most electronics.
And basically we can't really put it back on.
So if I take this off right now,
we're probably never going to have this PS5
up to the same cooling.
I might try some normal thermal compound to see,
but this is the point of no return.
(tool whirring)
As soon as I flip this over
liquid metal might go everywhere.
That is still firmly attached.
So the back half of the board is free.
Whatever they're doing to keep that liquid metal attached
is absolutely what's holding the board in right now.
(mumbling in distance)
Okay, got it.
Yep.
Okay.
That my friends, oh no don't leak, don't leak.
There we go, all right.
So that is the inside of PS5.
So the main star of the show here
is absolutely that liquid metal.
So if you see if I lean it in,
it actually runs, do you see that?
Look at that, that is liquid metal.
So essentially that is what is interfacing
between the SOC of the PS5 and this heat sync
which is of course on the other side.
I'm not gonna flip this over
'cause it will absolutely go everywhere.
So interestingly what they're doing,
so one of the main disadvantages of using liquid metal,
and one of the main reasons why it's not typically used,
is because it is literally liquid metal.
So if it goes everywhere it would short things out,
cause tons of problems.
So you can see when I opened it up
the liquid metal actually went all off to one side.
That foam barrier kept it from actually reaching the board.
Because if this liquid metal touches any of this
you are in major trouble.
I just so happen to have an Xbox series X SOC, don't ask.
And if I put that side-by-side
you can see the difference in the PS5 SOC
versus the Xbox series X.
This just simply is bigger, which makes sense
because essentially how they're getting the performance
out of the PS5 is they are throwing liquid metal at it,
they're throwing this huge heat sync at it,
just to try to keep it cool
because they're running at such high clock speeds.
That my friends is what is inside a PlayStation 5.
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Where probably fewer PlayStation's will be harmed.
And if you'll excuse me,
I am now going to go spend all night
putting this back together.
I labeled these right?