The PS4 Pro cost $400, And all it's got is better graphics.
(Crunching Noise)
It doesn't even have the damn 4k Blu-Ray player
Bi**ch if I wanted to spend $400 every three years for better graphics and non-cinematic frame rate
(Crunching Noise)
I would got PC. F**K This s**t
Well, you know what I say
Amen brother we heard all the outraged console gamers out there and
Got on the phone with Dbrand to devise a plan so if you don't want to buy a PS4 pro
Why not just watercool your PS4 end make it look dope af while you're at it.
So let's get down to it then welcome to Playstation 4 water cooling
So this journey began over six months ago when my son and I sat down and tore down the PS4
Looking for the best way to tackle this problem
then I got busy with other projects and handed it off to jake who promptly did what any sane person would do and
taped a thermal probe using a non conductive thermal paste to the back of the mainboard and
reassembled it he chose this position because placing the thermal probe on the
[apu] directly would have affected the contacts between the heatsink and the apu itself and the purpose of this
Disassembly reassembly rig [murrell] in total it was completely torn out and put back together twice and will need to do it one more time
To get our thermal probe out at some point
Sorry, Jake was to get baseline temperatures
So we could determine how well our diy water cooling solution worked
So I don't expect too many people to replicate this project
and if they do
I'd imagine
[they'd] have some idea how to go to
Ifixit.com and find a PS4 teardown to follow along with but since we've got all the footage of taking it apart
[I'll] leave it to my editors to give you guys the highlights until we reach the good stuff [ah]
Here we [go]
with the motherboard removed we get our first good look at the thermal compound on the
Amd apu that functions as both the cPU and gPU
core for the Playstation [4] so we replaced this with a
Pea-sized amount of [IC] diamond for both our before and our after tests let's fast-forward again for a little bit here
Really?
That tiny Heatsink does all of the cooling for the Playstation [4]
So that then is what we'll be replacing with an ek
Supremacy gPU block by the way shout out to ek for providing our liquid cooling gear
By drilling through the rivets here with a couple of different [sized] bits
Next we needed to cut away the motherboard Tray with some aviation shears
We actually ended up needing straight right and left angle for this
But I guess you could just use a dremel then we routed zip ties through the block through the motherboard and through the tray
Proceeding to cut a hole into the I to the Playstation 4 for our tubing to read through
Please note that
We don't generally recommend attaching fittings to tubing then screwing the whole thing into a block it is very easy to
Accidentally cause it to come loose and leak when the tubing moves, but we didn't have many options here
And it was the best way forward
With the tubes installed it was time to reassemble the PS4, but we needed to make [sure] our block was securely mounted first
[hmmm] that single [zab] strap didn't really seem to cut it but with four or five pieces of squishy
[double-sided] tape we were able to compress the stacks
Slide them in and let [them] expand giving us a surprisingly good mounting solution that not only held the block in place
But also supplies adequate pressure between the block and the apu so far so good
Fast forward again - are they really going to do that?
yes, my friends during reassembly we swapped out the stock 500 gig hard drive for a
3.8 4 Terabyte [Samsung] PM 863 ssd making this the highest
internal capacity and possibly
the most expensive Playstation 4 ever at about
$3,000 all told
now by this point some of you have probably realized that we didn't manage to mount a radiator pump or
reservoir inside the Ps4 s Chassis it's
Possible that this could be done, but given how cramped the PS4 already is with its smaller size
similar Power to the Xbox One and
Internal power supply it wouldn't be easy. No problem though proto case to the rescue
So the first step was [to] do up an initial design in sketchup
which we sent to proto case to mechanically design and to
Manufacture those guys are great at what [they] do the footage you're looking at now [is] from their
Amazing metal shop that they use for rapid prototyping and even some larger scale manufacturing
There was a small design oversight on our part that forced us [to] run the radiator in pull rather than push
But that it worked great
we load it up in ekx Res 140 with a pre-attached D5 pump using a custom mount from our 3D printer a
Cool stream Sc. 120 millimeter slim radiator a bunch of ek fittings some primo chill black tubing and a sky
Slim 120 millimeter fan then at this point
We sent the mostly finished system to D
Brand for one of their sexy vinyl skin jobs
Those guys mostly do phones game consoles and accessories and computers, but [they're] always up for a [challenge]
And I think they did an amazing job [of] the external water cooling box let them know over on Twitter if you agree
We'll have that linked below and be sure [to] check out their configurator which we'll have linked in the video description
[next] time you need to personalize and protect a device whether it's an [iPhone] or a monstrosity such as this one anyway
surprisingly with it all put together no leaks which leads us to
moment of truth time [will] the Playstation 4 boot and
Success it still turns on but did [we] improve our temperatures?
The answer again is yes [unfortunately]
[for] those of you who legitimately thought water cooling might help you avoid a PS4 [pro] upgrade this won't do
Anything for performance at all but a 16 degree improvement in temps while staying near silent is
Still a pretty fantastic achievement
At least we think so
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