ps3 Overheat Pixelated Graphic.....Scar or no Scar?

[NiceCold]

i was playing my ps3 on saturday night from 9pm to 1am then 30min break shutting it down...... then play again then it was morning! play till 2 pm.

thats like 17 hours! with just one 30min break. i play many game including starhawk but mostly modnation creating tracks.... freaking time consuming without knowing the time.

the morning start out pretty warm here too making the room warm-hot early in the morning like starting 7:20 its freaking warm. no ac.

so yeah 17 hours of playing! with 30min break.


so now i start to see artifact on the graphic while playing motorstorm like the character is pixelated with blue/red color. then it just disapeared by itself after a few min. after that i was pretty scared then decided to turn the ps3 off to cool it down.

i wont be turning my ps3 on for another 48 hours just to be in the safe side

my question:
once a ps3 is experiencing graphic artifact for the first time due to overheating, will it contunue to experience it? will it cause a scar? you know when human fell down and got scratch by something and it has a chance to be a scar having mark stain permanently? will ps3 be like that?

 

[Soundmanred]

Yes.

 

[Anteaus]

Get some compressed air and a vacumn and clean all the dust out of your unit. If it's heat related, letting it sit won't improve things since the reason it is overheating will still be there.

 

[Saint Nick]

You could always put your PS3 in the refrigerator.

 

[mmntech]

Watercool it! Actually, that would be a neat project, especially hooked up to a passive rad system. Too bad they don't make waterblocks for them anymore.

 

[digiram]

Bake it http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1659975

 

[viivo]

Get some compressed air and a vacumn and clean all the dust out of your unit.

Never use a vaccuum cleaner on electronics unless you want to kill them with static electricity. While I'm being Safety Sam, don't use compressed air while the device is turned on. A lot of moisture accompanies the air.

 

[NiceCold]

Never use a vaccuum cleaner on electronics unless you want to kill them with static electricity. While I'm being Safety Sam, don't use compressed air while the device is turned on. A lot of moisture accompanies the air.

thats what i thought about vaccuum cleaner is bad for electronics. i see like 89% of people mention about vaccuum clean the ps3/360 and 9% say it is bad for it.

i wont use vaccuum on it. i never use vaccuum on any electronics not just gaming consoles. i jus have this instinct knowledge. afraid that the electric from the vaccuum will conflict other electronic objects.

my ps3 seems fine now. i guess it is not a scar. no artifacts. i guess it is normal for artifact only when it is hot.




wait i guess i was lying that i never use vaccuum on ps3 to clean the vent. i think i use it on my fat ps3 a tiny tiny bit like 4 sec vaaccum although i know within that it is bad but i risk..... since my ps3 got whole mess of dust on the back vent.... so after i clean it with handheld vaccuum..... the same day my fat ps3 got yellow light error. i am suspect that the vaccuum is to blame but i am not 100% sure.