You could try
this, it works with PS3 too, after all.
I wonder if that's a genuine Sony fan there...Not to mention that you could open it up, to make the fan even more effective. Should give you that l33t-look as a bonus.
Oh, you meant seriously?
Well, first thing we'd have to figure out is how much truth there are in those rumors. Quick Googling gives somewhat mixed results. Very few mentions about overheating - no first hand experiences - some claims by mod chip makers that incompetent chip installers are messing up the cooling somehow, and of course the power adapter recall. Which truly did overheat, but Sony
did recall them.
As for PS2 and Xbox... well, my Xbox doesn't get warm to touch. I have never managed to make it crash due to heat, but the CPU itself does run pretty warm, assuming that the thermal diode reports correct temperatures, of course. I've seen it idle around 50 degrees Celsius, which is a lot considering that the chip is not particularly power hungry. Of course, whether the box can issue halt-command is another matter, if it doesn't... well, no wonder it idles hot. Wouldn't have any difference when it's running under full load.
My PS2 actually gets warm. But that's because there's a HDD inside. One that is a) old b) really loud
(I have the loudest PS2 in the world, no doubt) and c) gets pretty hot. Without the disk I've never noticed it warming to a noticeable degree.
Dunno, but I think that in general about 95% overheating cases happen to people who don't either read the manual, care about what it says, or realize that these things do put out some amount of heat. With the 360/PS3-generation the problem is of course aggravated, since now the consoles put out some serious heat, so I'd take the manual pretty seriously this time.
EDIT: I wouldn't normally bother with this, since the tone can be interpreted as PS3 bashing. I don't really hate PS3, but I do think that Ken Kutaragi is about the most arrogant man alive... and I hate fanboys... it's just that this is way too juicy not to post. Sorry PS3 fans. According to several web sources
(NeoGAF forums, Beyound3D forums) people who have a PS3 have noticed an interesting feature. Get this: it can
not scale.
So, should you own an older HDTV that can't accept 720p, you are pretty much screwed. If the game doesn't natively render 1080, PS3 will default to...
480p as a backup
(which apparently has to be supported by all games, since otherwise you couldn't play them with SDTV).
In other words, if you own an older HDTV and pre-ordered PS3... welcome to the
next last-gen.
Sure, all
new HDTVs accept 720p, but still... how can a such a colossal screw up even happen? Xbox certainly has a scaler in it, 360 has a scaler, I think that PS2 has a scaler as well. PS3 does not.
I have to admit that I'll probably be smiling for the rest of the week. Why? Because of all the little "Xbox 360 is not TrueHD!!!!1111"-fanboys. How do you like them apples now? Yes, I'm an evil person, live with it.