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PlayStation 3, the gem of the 2006
_{Post #7 - Written by jobz in 2025/05/07}

<sub>This is a slightly revised edit of the post, so i'm uploading it like it's recent.

The main star of the blog post. The big, fat, spiderman font PlayStation 3</sub>

The PlayStation 3, the thing that is legendary for its time... as a timebomb depending on the model and an experimental architure that is difficult to make games for resulting in so many laggy abominations that would run pretty much fine on a PowerPC alternative called the XBOX. Pretty nice, right?

That's what I think of it, a neat, somewhat challenging console to work with in terms of development, both in Linux environments and native GameOS. Other developers including Gabe Newell, the man of Steam, the god of sales himself complained about the console requiering a re-optimization of titles as well as having to make it as efficient as possible

The console uses a custom PowerPC architecture CPU under the name of CELL/B.E, running @ a staggering 3.2 GHz. for the time of 2006, but this means code must be optimized to CELL's own coding, the console as uses a custom GPU called the RSX, which is known for its infamous failure rate

Not the NEC/TOKIN, the RSX. That's been confirmed as one of the common, but not the main cause of YLOD, the PS3, as well as the early 360's, are plagued by the solder-curse, where companies like TSMC used cheap lead-free solder for chips which caused the epidemic on GPU's and all the way to the Mac. This basically means you can only just delay the death of the processor or GPU unless you franken-mod it with 65nm or the 40nm RSX as those tend to use much better solder for the main chip and for the board, but most launch models are much less prone to dying compared to the Xbox 360

I own a PHAT PlayStation 3 model, unfortunately I played a bad gamble in terms of what kind of model it is and I've gotten the worst model of the bunch, the CECHH, known for it's bad cooling when compared to it's previous cousin the CECHG. The model uses much smaller cooling fans and radiators, which is the main cause. This console is on an older Firmware, so I would love to CFW it, but I don't want to get rid of its value as it has it's original box

Since it's on it's original firmware, I can install OtherOS, which is basically Linux. However, my harddrive is unable to be formatted correctly by the console and just wipes everything, it has the Slim model harddrive, so there's unfortunately not much I can do

Thanks to Sony not enforcing the region locking as much as during the time of the PSP(which also earned the benefit of pretty much being a region-free game console), most games are playable on any region (UNLESS ITS PERSONA GAMES), you can play European titles on American consoles and American games on the Japanese console, that's crazy, not many consoles did that and I love the console for that.

I love the original PS3 and it's bulky design, the slims are great, but I don't see the charm in them as I do with the humongous fat shits, I do hope I can buy a model that's reliable and is PS2 reverse compatible, because that was the main selling point of the console, reverse compatibiltiy with PS1 and PS2 games.

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