I bought a PS4. Now what?

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Wasn’t sure where else to post this, but this is almost a generic PS4 thread (almost... not really)

Anyway, after not using my PS4 for anything other than Netflix for the past 8 months I got Black Ops 4 for Christmas and finally started to play it a few days ago and it makes my PS4 run LOUD, which makes me think the fan is running too hard. I’ve read online that I should open it up to dust it out. I’ve got an older PS4, I’ll have had it four years come June, so I’ve had to ordered a T8 torxbit screwdriver in order to open the fucking thing.

Anyway, my question is will this actually help? If not, is there something else I can do to make it quieter?

 

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Wasn’t sure where else to post this, but this is almost a generic PS4 thread (almost... not really)

Anyway, after not using my PS4 for anything other than Netflix for the past 8 months I got Black Ops 4 for Christmas and finally started to play it a few days ago and it makes my PS4 run LOUD, which makes me think the fan is running too hard. I’ve read online that I should open it up to dust it out. I’ve got an older PS4, I’ll have had it four years come June, so I’ve had to ordered a T8 torxbit screwdriver in order to open the fucking thing.

Anyway, my question is will this actually help? If not, is there something else I can do to make it quieter?

If it’s dusted up bad, I can see it. I don’t know the specifics of ps4 internals but this does hold true for pc’s and Xbox in some cases.

When you open it up how are you planning to dust it out? Cans of air etc? If you have a shop vac, you can buy the little small places cleaning attachments that work really well, just make sure it’s powered down to avoid any static or flip the hose to blow instead of suck.

I’m working on a pc restoration/emulator build that has a lot of cleaning of dust and crap in it. When I’m done and vid is done( no telling on timeline hunting some parts now) l post the vid in the pc build thread.

Should be some good cleaning advice but also this is a good reference too.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

If it’s dusted up bad, I can see it. I don’t know the specifics of ps4 internals but this does hold true for pc’s and Xbox in some cases.

When you open it up how are you planning to dust it out? Cans of air etc? If you have a shop vac, you can buy the little small places cleaning attachments that work really well, just make sure it’s powered down to avoid any static or flip the hose to blow instead of suck.

I’m working on a pc restoration/emulator build that has a lot of cleaning of dust and crap in it. When I’m done and vid is done( no telling on timeline hunting some parts now) l post the vid in the pc build thread.

Should be some good cleaning advice but also this is a good reference too.

I bought a can of compressed air (a “duster”, whatever you want to call it) to spray around inside. In the past that’s what I would use to clean the inside of my PC (back when I knew my way around a PC, about 12 to 20 years ago).

 

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I bought a can of compressed air (a “duster”, whatever you want to call it) to spray around inside. In the past that’s what I would use to clean the inside of my PC (back when I knew my way around a PC, about 12 to 20 years ago).

Yeah those are fine if you don’t need to use the air often, 2-3 cans should do the trick.

If you were cleaning shit all the time they cost too much

 

[rikwebb]

Wasn’t sure where else to post this, but this is almost a generic PS4 thread (almost... not really)

Anyway, after not using my PS4 for anything other than Netflix for the past 8 months I got Black Ops 4 for Christmas and finally started to play it a few days ago and it makes my PS4 run LOUD, which makes me think the fan is running too hard. I’ve read online that I should open it up to dust it out. I’ve got an older PS4, I’ll have had it four years come June, so I’ve had to ordered a T8 torxbit screwdriver in order to open the fucking thing.

Anyway, my question is will this actually help? If not, is there something else I can do to make it quieter?

I think its a T10 torx bit not a T8 needed, thats what i've used when opening mine. A can of air duster works really well with it