PS3 Slim - The Official Thread

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Are You Going To Buy a PS3 Slim?


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Well thanks for the advice TB. Your right about the 160GB, I have no idea where i got 180GB from haha. I was not aware you could just buy a larger add on hard drive or anything like that either. I was not trying to say Uncharted was a bad game, just I don't know much about the PS3 titles out right now, so at this point it was not of interest me.
 
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Well thanks for the advice TB. Your right about the 160GB, I have no idea where i got 180GB from haha. I was not aware you could just buy a larger add on hard drive or anything like that either. I was not trying to say Uncharted was a bad game, just I don't know much about the PS3 titles out right now, so at this point it was not of interest me.
You can put any laptop-sized SATA hard drive into the PS3, and you can do it in about ten minutes (not counting the back up and restore time). I switched my 60Gb out for a 320GB drive.

And Uncharted is arguably one of the best games this gen. It is definitely a huge favorite on the PS3.
 
Hi guys, just wanted to ask what would be the better option




1 - Bye PS3 slim for $499 with 120GB hard drive with power save

2 - Keep current 2 year old PS3 & bye a hard drive upgrade like a 400GB hard drive for $170
 
I don't get why the hell everyone complains about the YLOD. Game Informer made a survey, according to which 54.2 PERCENT of Xbox 360s Red Ring or E79 or have some other hardware failure. Luckily for Sony, ONLY 10.3% of PS3s have the YLOD. I wouldn't be complaining!

That is anything but a complain. I'm just saying that we don't know if they'll be more reliable -- Do you?
 
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Hi guys, just wanted to ask what would be the better option

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Provided you haven't had any problems with your PS3, I say go for the HD upgrade as even if your PS3 does die, provided it isn't a HD failure, you can move the new drive to a Slim when needed.
 
That is anything but a complain. I'm just saying that we don't know if they'll be more reliable -- Do you?

I believe that the new PS3 Slim will be way more reliable because the power chip is smaller, faster, uses less power, and is under less stress. Besides, Sony and IBM have had time to figure out any bugs from the original PS3. They are only minimizing things, not completely remaking it.
 
I believe that the new PS3 Slim will be way more reliable because the power chip is smaller, faster, uses less power, and is under less stress. Besides, Sony and IBM have had time to figure out any bugs from the original PS3. They are only minimizing things, not completely remaking it.

How can it be faster? And what about backwards compatibility, I mean new games after PS3 Slim release and possibility to play them on old PS3? Forget about it... :sly:
 
Hi guys, just wanted to ask what would be the better option




1 - Bye PS3 slim for $499 with 120GB hard drive with power save

2 - Keep current 2 year old PS3 & bye a hard drive upgrade like a 400GB hard drive for $170

Unless you run your PS3 24 hours a day 7 days a week all year (say if you use folding@home on your PS3), I'd just keep your old one. Even if you are running it 24/7, and say the PS3 slim saves you 60 watts of power, thats about 525kWh per year. Multiply that by how much you pay for electricity (you should be able to find this on your electricity bills). If you were paying 30 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), that'd be about $150 you save in power consumption each year.

Of course, if its only running a couple of hours a day, you wont save much money from the lower power usage.

EDIT: Note that that's assuming its saving 60 watts, I dont actually know how much it saves.

I thought the slim was going to be 299?

He's quoting the $499 AUD we pay here, thats about $410 USD at the moment)
 
How can it be faster?

This is taken directly from ps3fanboy. http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/20/ps3-slim-sports-cooler-cheaper-faster-45nm-cell-processor/

In addition to IBM's claim of "performance improvements" IDG News Service reports that the Slim "adds hardware enhancements that make it speedier" though, curiously, Sony never mentioned any performance improvements coming with the Slim. Since gaming consoles are engineered to a specification – so developers aren't programming for a moving target – we're thoroughly skeptical of of any user-facing performance improvements. Lucky for us, we've got a Slim at our disposal, so we'll throw some fire at it and see how it responds.


I don't believe it will be faster where it will make everything run quicker, but in a sense it will run everything smoother, without a noticeable improvement in "speed." ex. the XMB will load better while in game and vice versa, etc.
 
Possibly by my Birth day in December or early next year, I will want to buy the SSD rather then HDD because of SPEED reasons. You guys think prices will drop by december on SSD? and what is a best buy for 120GB or more SSD as of right now? With my experiance on my current HDD, I got Faster HDD, but it's only faster by few second, I am constantly installing games, movies, pictures, etc etc.. any suggestions on very good SSD?
 
Possibly by my Birth day in December or early next year, I will want to buy the SSD rather then HDD because of SPEED reasons. You guys think prices will drop by december on SSD? and what is a best buy for 120GB or more SSD as of right now? With my experiance on my current HDD, I got Faster HDD, but it's only faster by few second, I am constantly installing games, movies, pictures, etc etc.. any suggestions on very good SSD?

As far as I know the PS3 isn't designed to take advantage of solid state drives. You'd be just wasting money and sacrificing disk space.
 
Possibly by my Birth day in December or early next year, I will want to buy the SSD rather then HDD because of SPEED reasons. You guys think prices will drop by december on SSD? and what is a best buy for 120GB or more SSD as of right now? With my experiance on my current HDD, I got Faster HDD, but it's only faster by few second, I am constantly installing games, movies, pictures, etc etc.. any suggestions on very good SSD?
What would you consider good enough value to justify the speed increase?

Looking at Newegg I see that 120GB drives are ranging from $300-$500. Seriously, is it worth doubling the cost of your PS3 for what is likely to only be a noticeable improvement in data transfer speeds?

Unless there is some mega breakthrough in SSDs or an industry standard switch to them I do not see their price difference being worth the added performance.
 
Possibly by my Birth day in December or early next year, I will want to buy the SSD rather then HDD because of SPEED reasons. You guys think prices will drop by december on SSD? and what is a best buy for 120GB or more SSD as of right now? With my experiance on my current HDD, I got Faster HDD, but it's only faster by few second, I am constantly installing games, movies, pictures, etc etc.. any suggestions on very good SSD?

Stick to HDD

#1 SSD's aren't utilised on the ps3 and from memory performance was equal if not worse in most cases compared to hdd's.

#2 You said yourself you will need to constantly install games pictures etc. SSD's have a limited number of writes and their performance will drop as a consequence over time. So in 2-3 years your hdd will still be going strong while your ssd will deteriorate. Anybody who installs a SSD into a computer, first thing they do is disable a bunch of things that would normally write to the hdd to help prolong the life of the drive.


Assuming you still wanted an SSD your cheapest ones are the new intels that I believe are half the price of most others and provide fairly good performance.
 
I love the theoretical benefits of SSDs, in fact, that's part of the reason why I bought my netbook over a cheap laptop in the first place. But, given the "reliability" of my unit thus far, in addition to the stories I've read, the costs just aren't justified. Yet.

If you can grab a massive HDD for a good price for the PS3, I'd say go for it. Especially if you're willing to spend that much.
 
As far as I know the PS3 isn't designed to take advantage of solid state drives. You'd be just wasting money and sacrificing disk space.

Then my friend you are wrong, quick search will prove you wrong..

SSD is way way way more faster for installing games from drive memory..
SSD is not that faster only when installing from game disc... but transferring pics, music, files, downloading and installing will prove its worth.




Heck I got 7,200 RPM and it's faster over the stock 5,400 that came with my 60 gig PS3.
 
Um, the video you showed said that it was only beneficial for those who play a lot of downloadable games. The MGS4 install was only a 2 second difference.

Personally, the speed difference is not worth practically doubling the cost of my PS3.
 
Youp, that is what I need.. on half a year once Prices drop to at least 100-140 dollars for 120-160 gigs.
 
Every time I read these threads, I expect my launch 60GB (purchased on ebay cheap, some sketchy kid from New Jersey listed it without so much as a photo in March 08) to die the next time I turn it on. It sits in a pretty dusty old apartment, and I really wonder how it survives-maybe some of you are being far too nice to yours!

I'll be sticking with the old girl until it dies, or gives some indication that it is about to. I likely ruined it (jinx!) just by posting about it here. I'd miss the extra USB ports, and I have great luck with PS2 games, GT4, Intellivision Lives!, and All Star Baseball 2005 work without a hitch, so I'm one of those who does enjoy the BC and would hate to give it up.

The price cut will absolutely take some of the sting out when I do have to replace it though, $300 is so much more palatable than $400+, even with fewer features.
 
You could probably scrape a used 60 for $300 (Mine craiglisted at $300, and that was before Sony slashed prices. Even Gamestop sells them for $330. Who knows what you could get one for now if you looked). And Sony would undoubtedly fix it for less than that if it died by one of the "normal" problems.
 
I don't miss extra USB, I bet NYKO will have adapter for Slim
PS2 compatible? You can buy PS2 for 100 bucks and it displays better way more clean over PS3 when you play a PS2 game. What else.. its a SONY PS2 SLIM, they are so cool!

Relax man, you said wrong one too many times. :lol:

haha sorry! but i was relaxed, i wrote in relaxed manner..

oi..
now i wrote relaxed twice in one row! :indiff::nervous::crazy::ouch:
 
Um, the video you showed said that it was only beneficial for those who play a lot of downloadable games. The MGS4 install was only a 2 second difference.

Personally, the speed difference is not worth practically doubling the cost of my PS3.

The bottleneck is the optical drive, not the hard drive. The proof is in the video. They should have showed the bootup time for those installed games. That would have been far more useful.

The other major advantage, which I'm surprised no one picked up on, is that SSD's run significantly cooler than HDD's. This adds to the reliability and longevity of the PS3 unit (not to mention the fact that SSD's are more reliable by themselves to begin with).

Basically, cost excepted, SSD's are far superior to HDD's in this console.
 
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