This is the PlayStation 5 and we are going to break it scream So now that we’re going to see what’s inside the box, but we’re also going to tear this thing. Apart, Look at the size of this box, Okay, wow.
What a nice unboxing experience! So, if you’ve, actually seen we’ve done an entire video on the DualSense already And we may or may not have broken that one as well.
Oh, is that a bad luck that all the PlayStation videos we do it? Just ends in destroying things Ken: It works, though box rattling.
This makes the fat PS3 look reasonable.
Are you kidding me? I hope you got room’cause it’s big.
I almost called it a big chungus, but I didn’t’cause.
I’ve used my chungus quite enough today.
So for the obligatory size comparison, we have the Xbox series, S Austin laughs, Which is funny, And then we also have the series X.
So the PlayStation 5 is big, But why is it so big? Well, there’s only one way to find out watching the official PlayStation tear down video.
The second best way to find out is to continue watching this video. As I wreck a PS5 ding, Oh yeah, that’s, why you need the stand? Huh Woo look at that Look I’m, not gon na, be the guy who tells you that size, doesn’t matter’cause.
It definitely matters if you’re a PlayStation 5 One of the things that’s interesting about the PS5 is that it’s supposed to be easy to open up the side.
Panel machine clinks, Austin laughing Okay, so the PlayStation 5 is very easy to remove the side panel.
I definitely just scratched it.
Oh my god.
Do you see the size of that scratch? I just put on Look at that.
Well, this is going well, isn’t it.
As you can see.
The side panel of the PS5 is very easily user removable, So easy Tool, less Brainless as well.
Obviously, Oh look at that. That is how to do it gently Grasping So immediately it’s clear that they’re going for a different cooling approach compared to the series X.
So you can see that we have what I believe is a 120 mil fan, but you actually have clearance on both sides, So you can see it’s open on this side as well as this side.
So if you compare this to something like the Xbox series X, which uses honestly just a much more complicated way of cooling off the console, So you have dual motherboards, you have a mid plate.
You have vapor chambers, It’s very complicated, Whereas with the PS5 it seems like Sony’s opted to go for a cheaper and simpler approach And the downside there is just simply the console is bigger.
Now you might wonder why has Sony made it so easy to remove the side panels of the PS5? Well, the big reason for that is that not only can you clear out dust from these little traps, but importantly, you can also upgrade the SSD.
So, behind this little panel we should see that there is an M2 slot So right here we have a slot for a PCI 4 point, O SSD.
Now, as of recordings, this video – you can’t, do anything here yet So the idea will be a long term once it gets a firmer update at some point that you will be able to easily upgrade the storage of your PS5 without needing to buy some Kind of proprietary memory card, like you do on the Xbox The main downside to upgrading your PS5, as I accidentally screw my hand, is that you need a very fast SSD, So you need to be not only PCI 4 point O, but in theory at least you Need it to by Sony compatible, So we actually can’t test it since it doesn’t work right now, But stayed tuned to make sure to subscribe to the channel, because we will be taking a closer look at what kind of SSD options and how You can upgrade the storage on your PS5, All right, let’s plug it in and see.
Can you actually run it without the sides on machine beeping? Oh, I see Oh yeah that fan’s spinning You can absolutely do this, Should you Probably not, But as far as the PlayStation’s concerned, it doesn’t care or doesn’t even know.
I guess if you have the sides on What’s interesting is so I can definitely feel it is definitely pushes all that air which it sucks in through this way, through the fan and out the back.
There’s like a good little breeze back here. So what it seems like for the cooling solution is that all of the cooling is happening on the top half of the console, Which kinda makes sense because on the bottom half you mostly have the disc drive and I assume the power supply.
Oh yeah, That works.
Okay, So if your PS5 is overheating, you can take the side panels off, You might get dust in there and it’s probably not recommended, but technically that works.
You know, kids are gon na.
Do that Matt? How much are you actually gon na tear this apart? Yes, is the answer.
Matt There’s, probably a very elaborate way to do this.
I’m just gon na start, unscrewing things All right.
There we go.
One T is void There.
We go So a little note if you decide to tear your own PSI apart. They have a lot of screws and they’re all different.
Like all of’em.
I’m 12 screws.
In now.
Let’s remove the fan tool: whirring Riveting content watching Austin Evans label each individual screw, so he’s not an idiot and knows how to put it back together.
So I think those are all the screws So Well that comes out easily.
Now the fan – oh wow – that just comes Whoa – that’s cool Out Wow.
I can just feel the breeze I mean I feel like this fan weighs like half an Xbox series S, So the fan basically is pushing that air right through those heat pipes.
So far so good, Let me pull this little cable loose.
The shroud has given up and we have more shroud Austin laughs. Here we go Okay, So the optical drive should just come loose now That That’s actually a very oddly large drive.
So, of course, this is what you use to watch Blu Ray’s, 4K, Blu Ray’s as well as their proprietary hundred gig format or whatever they use for PS5 discs.
Do you see this Look? How tiny this little bit of the heat sync is.
Look it just pops out on this side, So next I’m going to remove these.
What I assume are antennae for wifi, probably like Bluetooth.
I guess we can start undoing the oh, my god That’s a lot of screws All right.
If these are all different sizes, I’m gon na be labeling screws all night long, Let’s Get started.
Shall we upbeat music? These are famous last words.
I will say so far.
This has been fairly easy to get into. At no point have I felt like I was about to break something: Okay.
Well, I’m just gon na take it apart That’s literally dangling, So you mean I’m almost done.
I hear nothing but positive things right now, Matt! This is what a PS5’s supposed to look like, I think So, after removing a couple of dozen screws, we finally have the heat shield off or the shield Shield off Wait That’s not part of the heat sync at all.
They have a separate heat pipe on the back, So this also serves as a heat sync for the back of the PS5.
So taking a look around here, this looks to be the SSD, or at least that’s.
What I assume is the SSD.
It’s fairly close to the M2 slot And then, if we slide things over a little bit, you can get a little bit of a better look at the GDR6 memory, specifically 16 gigs of it on the PS5.
Now something else interesting.
I believe, if you can see this little guy right here, I believe that is the wifi chip And something unique about the PS5 is that this actually has wifi 6.
Unlike the PlayStation 4 And, of course, the Xbox series X and series S, all of which have the older wifi 5, Just a nice little feature Now. I think the board should just come out.
Oh, I’ve got a lot more screws to undo don’t.
I Yeah you do Yes, you do.
That is a bizarre looking heat sync, So you actually have these like cross heat pipes.
Do you even PlayStation bro? So what’s left inside the chassis is almost entirely the power supply, Which is 370 watts, so that’s actually a pretty beefy power supply.
I can’t.
Imagine the PS5 actually needs that, But you can see the overall volume of the PS5.
The power supply takes up a pretty huge chunk of that It’s.
Fine, it’s.
Fine, it’s not going anywhere Fine. We can pretty quickly undo the last couple of screws.
The only problem is, it likely is going to be terminal.
So on the underside of this heat sync, there is thermal compounds specifically known as liquid metal.
Liquid metal is something which has never really been used before.
In certainly a game console and really in most electronics, And basically we can’t really put it back on.
So, if I take this off right now, we’re probably never going to have this PS5 up to the same cooling.
I might try some normal thermal compound to see, but this is the point of no return tool whirring As soon as I flip, this over liquid metal might go everywhere.
That is still firmly attached, So the back half of the board is free, Whatever they’re.
Doing to keep that liquid metal attached is absolutely what’s holding the board in right now, mumbling in distance.
Okay got it Yep, Okay, That my friends, oh no don’t leak. Don’t leak.
There we go all right, So that is the inside of PS5, So the main star of the show here is absolutely that liquid metal.
So if you see, if I lean it in it actually runs, do you see that Look at that? That is liquid metal? So, essentially that is what is interfacing between the SOC of the PS5 and this heat sync, which is of course, on the other side.
I’m not gon na flip this over’cause.
It will absolutely go everywhere, So, interestingly, what they’re doing.
So one of the main disadvantages of using liquid metal and one of the main reasons why it’s not typically used is because it is literally liquid metal.
So if it goes everywhere, it would short things out cause tons of problems.
So you can see when I opened it up, the liquid metal actually went all off to one side That foam barrier kept it from actually reaching the board, Because if this liquid metal touches any of this, you are in major trouble.
I just so happen to have an Xbox series X, SOC don’t ask, And if I put that side by side, you can see the difference in the PS5 SOC versus the Xbox series X.
This just simply is bigger, which makes sense, because, essentially, how they’re getting the performance out of the PS5 is they are throwing liquid metal at it. They’re, throwing this huge heat sync at it, just to try to keep it cool because they’re running at such high clock speeds That my friends is what is inside a PlayStation 5, Make sure to subscribe to the channel for more PlayStation content.
Where probably fewer PlayStation’s will be harmed And if you’ll excuse me, I am now going to go, spend all night putting this back together.
I labeled these right.
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