Playing on average 5 hours a day, how long can my ps3 last ?

[m8h3r]

Fatty WILL go, when it starts making a noise like a hoover its on borrowed time!

Mine made a fan noise about 2 months ago :S

 

[MacBaby]

It's just how it is with electronics. One unit can be turned on for 3 years straight and still live, and another one can die after 6 months, rarely used. It's basically the same for all electronic consumer goods. Just cross your fingers on that you picked one of the "good" ones.

I have a 120 GB Slim, and it's dead silent as always. Or actually it's a 320 GB, I don't remember

 

[Zoom!Zoom!]

The answer is 42.

 

[Greisen]

I bought the PS3 to months are release so its the fat one. I've been playing playstation ever since the release and its still doing fine. Sometimes it ****s up and i have to restart it but thats all. At the moment i play like 2-5 hours a day. Just keep you playstation well ventilated and so.

Btw you can easely remove the dust without having to dissample the ps3. Just turn it off and the backside in the on/off button. Then switch it on at the backside again and while your doing that press the eject button. The PS3 will go crazy with the coolers for the next 5 seconds but its removing pretty much all dust from the inside

Im doing this on average one time a months.

 

[RocketJohn]

I bought the PS3 to months are release so its the fat one. I've been playing playstation ever since the release and its still doing fine. Sometimes it ****s up and i have to restart it but thats all. At the moment i play like 2-5 hours a day. Just keep you playstation well ventilated and so.

Btw you can easely remove the dust without having to dissample the ps3. Just turn it off and the backside in the on/off button. Then switch it on at the backside again and while your doing that press the eject button. The PS3 will go crazy with the coolers for the next 5 seconds but its removing pretty much all dust from the inside

Im doing this on average one time a months.

I have a fatty with a 120gb ssd and just leave it on...

Stuff was made to be consumed not preserved... Use it!

 

[savage388]

My 120 gb slim runs 6 hours a day or more, heck sometimes when it gets cold I just heat my room with it itll be fine.

 

[peter_vod69]

What you should do is sell "dates of death". Pick a six month window in which it could die, then sell a day for ten dollars, with a grand prize of say, $500 for the one with the winning "date". When you've sold all the dates, you'll have plenty of money left over to replace it, and still be able to pay the prizemoney if it dies.

 

[masterplan]

Logically, from the point of heat it's not important whether the PS3 is running consecutively one hour or one week. If there was a trouble with cooling causing overheating, it would occur pretty fast as all the chips reach their maximum temperature (allowed by cooling system) within seconds when under load.

 

[boshuter]

Playing on average 5 hours a day, how long can my ps3 last ?

It will last exactly 2 years, 3 months, and 22 days.

 

[elston87]

If you do have a fatty PS3, be sure that you replace the power supply after a year if you do keep it on for at least 10+ hours a day (B-spec comes to mind), as a power supply can develop bad caps after a while of use.

Other than that, the new slim PS3s are probably the most indestructable consoles I ever worked with. I kept mine on for a whole week running the B-spec Endurance events and Remote Racing. I also have done Folding@Home for a consecutive time period, without ever turning the console off, and it completed its work.

The PS3 lives up to its name as a media center. If someone told me that they use PS3s at movie theatres, I'd believe them.

 

[Dgan]

I don't rember where I read this but it said that leving it on is safer than turing it on and off because whan you dont turn it off the temp. inside stays about the same, but turung it on and off makes the inside temp. change causing the soider inside to expand and contract. After a long time of this it breaks the soider and gives you ylod. So long as you keep dust and dirt out it will be fine.

 

[Greisen]

Look on you PS3 like your wife...

She is made for cleaning, cooking and sex. But if she only does this she will get tired of you and probertly leave you. So to make her stay with you, you have to take care of her.

Its pretty much the same for the PS3. Its made for playing all day long but if you play too much without taking care of it there's a chance it will break down. Therefore you can almost play as much as you want if just you give it some good space for ventilation and sometimes you also has to clear the cage from dust

Haters gonna hate - but its all true

 

[slower than bob]

My main PS3 has been running the X2010 since march with a few breaks to rip tickets and such... 875,000 miles and counting.