Anyone still running original 360s or PS3s?

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I dug out my second hand US PS3 20GB yesterday to watch some Region A blu rays, it is a November 2006 build with the Emotion Engine so like a 60GB is at risk of the YLOD. However I cleaned it a while ago and still letting me watch my import films. :thumbsup:

My original 360 is long dead with RROD back in 2008 - lasted months, repaired and sold since.

Who is still running these early at risk YLOD (BC models in particular) and RROD models?
 
I have a launch model, US-NTSC 60GB PS3 with the EE/GS combo. I've removed the heat sink and heat spreader from both RSX and Cell to apply some quality thermal compound and it has been going strong every day. Playing Battlefield 3 mostly. My launch 360 died within 8 weeks, and I never got a new one.
 
i still have my original ps3 the one that can play ps2 games.

the only two things ive ever done to it is add a much bigger drive to it and hack it a bit to to play copys.
 
I still have my xbox 360, works as well today as it did when i bought it new in 2007. Total number of repairs equal to zero.

I heard that using ps3 to play blu rays was eventually a sure fire way of killing the ps3.

In any case these days i prefer my xbox with coinops5 :)
 
Running a launch model 60Gb PS3. It has had the YLOD issue about 5 times
and was lasting about 2-3 months between failures. Last time it went I changed the paste I was using and gave it an extra long re-flow and it has
been good for about 12 months now. :whistle:

As for my Xbox 360, I changed it for a Star Wars slim version about 18 months ago and that has been fine so far :shhh:

Russ
 
Original launch day PS3 went bust (YLOD) just last week, but has been running strong until then. Got my first 360 3 years ago and that already has drive problems :roll:
 
I have an early (No HDMI, white DVD bezel) XBOX 360 that a friend of mine raked out of a skip. Works fine :thumbsup:
 
My Xbox360 Xenon is running flawless... Only DVD tray sometimes stuck... not often. The mods done are:
1) Whisper Fans replacing original ones with 12v mod.
2) Removed X-Clamp
3) Artic Silver 5
4) Swaped original heatsink for a Elite Xbox heatsink
5) JTAG mooded

CPU temps arround 67ºC
GPU temps arround 45ºC
mems arround 38ºC
Internal case arround 34ºC :thumbsup:
 
No longer have my PS3 (40GB Phat) but someone in my family does and its still going. :thumbsup:
 
My 60gb ps3 lasted 3 years, then i had to reflow it, which lasted 4 weeks. Then i got a refurbished one which looked like new, which i traded for an a4000 :D

And that one has been running for 20+ years :lol:
 
Miru said:
My 60gb ps3 lasted 3 years, then i had to reflow it, which lasted 4 weeks. Then i got a refurbished one which looked like new, which i traded for an a4000 :D

And that one has been running for 20+ years :lol:
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With all the stuff you read you assume no original 360s or PS3s are left - good to see reports of happy users!

Judging by comments more 360s lost their lives.
 
its a bit of a lottery as to when they break down.

they can be fixed though,although a reball isent the cheapest option its defffinitly the more reliable.
 
Our 360 is still running, but saying that we don't really use it anymore.

Not even as a DVD player since we were bitten by the Blur-ay (<< Spelling correction) bug this Christmas just passed.

...just passed 6 months ago :lol:

...Ah c'mon. Well, it still felt like Christmas in April with all the mischievous snow.

...I wonder (enough to mention, but not enough to google) what a Blur-ay is
 
I've got a launch day PS3 60Gb which I acquired from my brother which is still going strong. It's had little use over the years, just the odd few hours a week here and there when he owned it so I hope it'll last a fair bit longer yet.

I keep meaning to take it apart, give it a good dusting out and maybe reapply the thermal compound whilst I'm at it, but I rarely use it myself.
 
Mine's a CECHLxx I think, 80GB fat model.
Originally bought late 2008, saw little use AFAIK. Then I bought it, sees fairly little use now at my home - mostly run as bluray player and media server. "Feels" super solid, but you never know.

My friend who has a same era 80GB YLODed a couple years ago, though he was pounding GTA IV and Gran Turismo like a demon. :lol:
He tried reflowing it, lasted another 9months.

What makes these units break down in the first place?
 
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