In a recent teardown of Sony PS5 Pro, Sony spotlighted innovation it had introduced in the system’s cooling. The liquid metal cooling system for the PS5 is repurposed to provide “more stable” cooling now. This came to avoid an unverified rumor that the liquid metal of the original PS5 would leak and cause system damage. After misquoting the jailbreak website Wololo.net, numerous sites even wrote against keeping the PS5 upright: mp; a YouTuber and a repair shop owner.
Only later did Wololo clarify that there was a ‘very crucial misunderstanding’ in the first part of its story; in the end, it does not seem very much like this is a rampant problem. According to Sony, the design of the PS5 Pro has been modified: “This is Shinya Tsuchida, Mechanical Design Lead for PS5 Pro.”
“We spent a lot of time in consideration of insulation during the early days of designing the original PS5 aka Sony PS5 Beta Program. There is a new structure in terms of the addition of some well-defined grooves to where the liquid metal is applied to make the cooling effect more stable, although the basic structure is the same as in the PS5 Pro. While we were conducting research for the original PS5, we expected that semiconductors would continue to advance and become much more dense, so we believed liquid metal technology would become quite critical. Turns out we were right, and it was core when designing the PS5 Pro.”
One of such features, according to the company, is a larger cooling fan with a modified design of its fan blades, having smaller blades in between them. The blog also claims that the PS5 Pro has a motherboard that hides even more electrical layers underneath to speed up memory access, which makes it very hard to detect the traces on it.
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