ps3 water cooling

[daltonstuff]

okay all I have a project I've been stewing on for a while now and I figured I'd start posting about it here.

 

I have a launch day ps3 that me and my dad put many hours together with and I want to keep it around as long as possible.

 

I've already got 90% of the materials and work done, all I have left is tubing and wait for a combo CPU and GPU block to come in the mail. this motherboard is a test board and is dead so don't freak out.

first off the case if a half xb Evo

 

I was originally going to use some random case I got off Facebook marketplace but it ended up being just too small for the motherboard

 

 

here is the lower level layout with disk drive, power supply, and pump

 

 

I'm using a 280 and 120 rad to cool everything

so far easy right, welp it only got harder from here

 

fan control and disc drive mounting and modification

 

1. to be continued

[MS-DOS Guy]

That's looking pretty sweet, I think I may do the same thing with an original xbox.

Good stuff!

 

Also, what case is that? It's looking pretty smexy.

[daltonstuff]

 

adding touch controls and board

 

 

extending hard drive to front of case

 

and right now I'm waiting on a custom ribbon cable for the Blu-ray drive to be shipped so I will update when I get farther along.

but so far so good

[daltonstuff]

also this is the method I used for powering the board with the sfx power supply

 

https://quade.co/2017/ps3-pc-power-supply/

[daltonstuff]

hot swap drive cage ftw

[MoonlightSylv]

Do they just make waterblocks for PS3s?

[daltonstuff]

11 minutes ago, Sylvie05 said:

Do they just make waterblocks for PS3s?

koolance made one many years ago, it's extremely hard to find. in the many years I've been wanting to attempt this I've only ever seen one for sale on ebay.

 

I just had a custom one made based on dimensions for the die of the chips and measurements for the mounting

[Ct500]

On 5/29/2019 at 12:49 AM, daltonstuff said:

koolance made one many years ago, it's extremely hard to find. in the many years I've been wanting to attempt this I've only ever seen one for sale on ebay.

 

I just had a custom one made based on dimensions for the die of the chips and measurements for the mounting

is there any way I can purchase or have the dimensions of the the chips and the die? I also want to try this. But have had no success.