Have you replaced the Hard Drive in your Pro? That sounds like a HDD issue. It usually means the drive is experiencing errors; you might want to think about replacing it ASAP.
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Fuck it, I’m going to try to fix my PS4Pro’s noise problem. Tips and words of encouragement needed (Update: results are in)
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Have you replaced the Hard Drive in your Pro? That sounds like a HDD issue. It usually means the drive is experiencing errors; you might want to think about replacing it ASAP.
Oh, shit. Thanks for the heads up. I previously put a 2tb seagate in it. I'll do a backup today
No problem, and remember: stay away from Seagate. I don't care who says what or what charts they trot out or what anecdotal evidence they try to use, do NOT buy a Seagate drive. Just go WD Blue or Black.
I also agree to never buy a Seagate. That's a few years of working AppleCare talking.
only cleaned the heatsink since you can reach it pretty easily without disassembling too much and it's already way quieter. i don't think i'll ever go to the point of changing the thermal paste tho
No. I've had mine since launch and it is still pretty quiet. You can hear the fan when the system is really being worked, but usually that is when my living room is pretty warm. If you have a lot of dust and animals, I think you will have problems eventually.
That unfortunately is a very short term solution. Within a few weeks (or even days) it will sound like a jet engine again. The dust is only 10% of the problem. The rest is thermal paste/thermal pads.
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I bought the CUH 7200 in January without Red Dead. You can see the model number on the box itself before you even buy it. I'm sure most Pros at stores are 7200s now. Getting a free game was a plus during the holidays, but you didn't have to get one then to guarantee a quieter system.
Note: I think the model number in the US is like CUH-7250 or something like that if I remember right.
thanks, yeah i cant see the model number cuz im buying it on Amazon and if it's possible localy if the right is price.
Do the backup but don't worry too much. I put a 2TB Samsung in my PS4 and it beeps regularly. Still going strong 3 years later.
Lol at that last comparison video between your "brown special edition" PS4 Pro and the regular black model.
Wow good work Pinty, and now we just need to work on your strange sense of humour and odd thread gif insertions.
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Launch unit here, changed paste with arctic silver 5 and cleaned it when rdr2 launched, it was super silent for a few months and then went back to being a jet engine.
Bought grizzly paste and pads and opened it myself yesterday. Relatively easy as long as you stay organized, i bought a little box with separations for the different screws.
Its back to being dead silent hopefully it stays that way until ps5 rolls by
Bought grizzly paste and pads and opened it myself yesterday. Relatively easy as long as you stay organized, i bought a little box with separations for the different screws.
Its back to being dead silent hopefully it stays that way until ps5 rolls by
If you are gonna open it you might as well buy grizzly 1mm thermal pads
Doubling up on this, but it's not a bad idea to go SSD, now. 1TB drives are relatively cheap, if it's within a budget, since the given HDD isn't much cheaper. The QOL changes alone are worth it.
Yes but it's not something I have laying around like the thermal paste. Not gonna buy it if I don't need it.
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those also tend to overheat and sony placed pads way smaller than the chips
I'm in the same boat as you. Might as well not bother with ordering and waiting on shipping thermal pads if the main problem is the thermal paste.
It's most likely a combination of both. The factory thermal pads are way too small. It's just a little extra effort if you're gonna open up your console anyway. Might as well go the extra mile. I'm glad I don't have to open it up again because I took care of everything right away. Look at it:
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It's most likely a combination of both. The factory thermal pads are way too small. It's just a little extra effort if you're gonna open up your console anyway. Might as well go the extra mile. I'm glad I don't have to open it up again because I took care of everything right away. Look at it:
Thanks. I guess I'll have to order some just to be safe. Is it 1mm thick? And approximately how much is needed
Yep, 1mm, the thermal grizzly ones are pretty good. 1 strip should be enough
Could possibly(?) find it cheaper elsewhere, but I grabbed this Themal Grizzly thermal pad and was able to do all what was needed in the PS4 Pro. I cut some pieces bigger then they needed to be earlier on, so a few of the memory chips aren't 100% covered (although still vastly more covered than the stock pads). If you aren't sure of yourself, it looks like to two pack is only a few bucks more (but looks like it only has one in stock), and that'd be way overkill, but you'd have more if you mess up.
his is the one i used, ignore the fan part, defeats the purpose imo.
Its pretty detailed on the teardown and rebuilding.
Also make sure you stay organized and keep the different screw types appart
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Numerous video's and walkthroughs have been posted in this thread. Check the first page.
I needed the two pack for my pro to do the memory chips and the small semiconductors. One strip wouldn't have been enough.
If I only did the memory chips, one strip would have been enough.
I'm guessing you'll probably be fine with a single layer.
EDIT: nevermind I'm stupid.
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You need to use the exact thickness because if the pads are too thin and doesn't make contact with the metal plate, they would not be transfering the heat out of the chip. It's like not having thermal pads at all.
Also, if they are too thick, they won't trasfer the heat properly and maybe apply to much force on the chips.
For the pro you need 1mm thickness
So I changed the thermal paste. I used some I had left from my Cryorig M9i cooler but left the original thermal pads on.
It was fairly easy. The improvement is huge. Spider-Man cutscenes made it incredibly loud before and now the fan does ramp up a bit but it's not to the level of waking up the neighbours. So much more quiet!
I strongly suggest everyone with a jet engine PS4 Pro to do this. Specially now during summer.
It was fairly easy. The improvement is huge. Spider-Man cutscenes made it incredibly loud before and now the fan does ramp up a bit but it's not to the level of waking up the neighbours. So much more quiet!
I strongly suggest everyone with a jet engine PS4 Pro to do this. Specially now during summer.
I am now a believer! I swapped out the thermal pads, repasted the APU and replaced my Delta fan with a Nidec and the difference is night and day. The fan would go absolutely nuts during menus and game play, just like in the "before" section of OP's vid, now it's completely silent and the fan hardly ramps up when I'm in games like Days Gone. When I would be playing Sekiro in Ashina Castle, the fan would be going crazy as well but now it's absolutely silent. I have a launch PS4 Pro and I can't stress how drastic the improvement is. I actually had to quit playing a few games on PS4 because the fan made it extremely unpleasant to play. Combined with the heat and the fact that I couldn't use my sound system, it was just a tremendous buzzkill. I used Arctic thermal paste and pads. If anyone is interested, I can dig up the link on Amazon for the Nidec fan. It's about $10 more expensive on Amazon but they have 1 day shipping as opposed to eBay which takes three weeks.
Interested. Not sure what fan I have yet but I couldn't find a Nidec source yet if nothing else worked out.
Found a way to get the iFixit tools for less than a King's ransom, so I'm going to try a repaste and repad in the next month as well.
Link to the fan. This actually comes with the screwdrivers you need to get the PS4 Pro open. Also, if you want to check which fan you have you can just open up the PS4 Pro without unscrewing anything and check for yourself.
Nidec is on the left and Delta is on the right.
Interesting kit! Pretty much need to go almost as far as disassembly to figure out what fan I have (ladder, extract pro, clear a table, de-dust, remove lid) but considering the kit you linked also comes with MX-2? Very appealing if I need it. Will look into this ASAP.
Ended up going iFixit regardless because I know they provide quality tools (and just generally a lot of the supporting tools I wanted, like a magnetic tray, spudgers, various tweezers) and because I finally found an Amazon link that would ship here (iFixit's own store charges $50 USD for shipping, by comparison). But still need to source paste and pads, so this is an interesting option.
Made the "mistake" of buying a used pro and after hearing how loud it gets I can see why it was offloaded.
Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, I like messing with hardware about as much as I like playing games so. New fan on the way, if that plus mandatory re-paste to go along with it is not enough I'll probably start chopping the damn case up.
Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, I like messing with hardware about as much as I like playing games so. New fan on the way, if that plus mandatory re-paste to go along with it is not enough I'll probably start chopping the damn case up.
Update: Just reinstalled No Man's Sky as it also made my PS4 Pro's fan kick into overdrive and it's almost completely silent right now during moments that would have made it impossible to hear anything going on due to fan noise. Also, my old roommate had a corgi that shed a lot and I found lots of hair in my heatsink so remember to clean everything before you reassemble it.
I think there is a way to check by just taking the top off and counting the blades of the fans, I'm not sure. I'd have to dig up the source on that one. I'm curious, is yours as loud as the OP's PS4 is in the video he linked?
I think there is a way to check by just taking the top off and counting the blades of the fans, I'm not sure. I'd have to dig up the source on that one. I'm curious, is yours as loud as the OP's PS4 is in the video he linked?
Good stuff.
It's good to enjoy playing games again without being so annoyed by the sound.
That deal sounds good. Had no other option in Germany, unless I bought a used fan and they were kind of expensive. So the ebay one was kind of my only choice. Came alot faster than expected from China though, so it wasn't that bad.
I don't have the high pitch, coil wine sort of problem, but it's a super-loud blower (so, I think the fan is working properly, it's just running at "high") which is loud enough that I have to turn up TV volume significantly. I live in a country where it's 30c year-round, so we already run ceiling fans (if not more), and this is very loud compared to those. Hitman, Days Gone, Horizon all run full volume. Even Bloodstained runs loud (not as loud though) in menus. It's enough that if I want to properly enjoy the audio I'd just plug in headphones.
There's no guarantee. I thought I had a Delta fan with the level of noise the fan produced. Once I started to open the console, I was quite suprised that I actually had a Nidec fan.
Switched it regardless.
That's how you can spot the difference without taking the fan out.
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So you just went Nidec>Nidec? Interesting. I'll keep that in mind.
Dust is 100% not a problem here. Already tried cleaning it out once to no effect.
I ordered the fan without checking it, plus there was an ebay coupon for 10€ off any order. So I paid like 19$ for it.
Thought due the fan being that loud and annoying it must be a Delta. Since I already paid for it, it would have been a waste not to use the new Nidec fan.
Results are speaking for themselves and I still got thermal paste and pads left over, in case the console gets loud again.
Yeah, at $19 it would be a steal. The amazon option is going to be $50 USD + Shipping, so I'm not sure about taking that extra step yet.