Yeah, they could be testing a V-like design with the devkit and see if it works for retailSeems like a lot of hassle and effort for just a devkit. They could've just make a simple box like the PS3 devkit.
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New PS5 devkit patents surface, show 6-fan cooling solution
- Thread starter Deeke
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I doubt it's particularly quiet, but aspects of the design intended to reduce required airflow pressure are the isolated short travel distances required for air flow in this design, and the use of axial rather than centrifugal fans.
A final design might share some ideas here - i.e. two, short, isolated airflows - but at a smaller scale. If the heatsink/psu were smaller in final, you could have a similar approach with one fan each perhaps. The reason there are three fans here is to provide uniform airflow across the entire length of the heatsink, with a shorter sink or PSU assembly, you could achieve the same with fewer fans.
OR ... the final cooling won't have anything in common with this at all ;)
From a design perspective, the patent notes that two isolated flows like this wouldn't necessarily have to be arranged in a V like this. You could have one diagonal assembly above the circuit board and one below, for example.
I think you are trying to say they put effort into designing and patenting that cooling solution for a reason
But the Dualsense looks so good. I love the design language of it.
Looks like Sony struggles once again to come up with a cooling solution. We already heard rumors about that. I'll stay far away from the console if it will be as loud as PS4 again.
It's not like the retail version won't be hot requiring complex a cooling system, right?
Hopefully the final console doesn't end up resembling that at all because
A) It looks ridiculous.
And
B) "6 fans" sounds...loud.
Call me crazy but I'd prefer a rectangle. And if they must do some odd shape, I eventually warmed up to their triple-decker parallelogram design.
A) It looks ridiculous.
And
B) "6 fans" sounds...loud.
Call me crazy but I'd prefer a rectangle. And if they must do some odd shape, I eventually warmed up to their triple-decker parallelogram design.
Six fans, hum? Or should I say... Six turbines.
Seriously, though, I think this patent might be related with the reveal that was supposed to take place today before it was delayed. I'm curious, someone leak that design pls
More fans at less rpm is better than less fans at higher rpm.
or they're looking at ways to improve cooling efficiency and therfore have more cooling in a smaller space, or more cooling for less fan speed/noise?
It's the combination of fansize, revolutions per minute, bearings used, fandesign and airflow through the console that determine the noise level. The amount of fans alone tells you almost nothing.
But they specifically adressed the noise in Road to PS5. It must have been a focus somehow to reduce it
Well if it is a complex cooling system then it would make it cool, right?
It probably has that many for redundancy, so that it can continue working even if one or two of them fail.
Yea wait - Why is Sony spending money designing devkits?
The whole point is only developers should have them, who do you need to please with the design?
The whole point is only developers should have them, who do you need to please with the design?
I think this can maybe give us some ideas as to the direction they're looking to in regards to cooling the PS5 (such as splitting the cooling, with separate cooling for PSU and APU). But aethetics aren't a consideration for a dev kit, so I don't think the system will necessarily look anything like what we see here, even if the internals are similar.
For what it's worth, this is the work of the designer of the PS4 (standard, Slim, and Pro): https://www.tetsusumiiworks.com/
If he's doing PS5 as well, I can't see the final unit looking anything like the devkit.
A bit of his philosophy: https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2013/10/10/meet-tetsu-sumii-the-man-behind-the-look-of-ps4/
And going by google he also designed PSVR, which shares the same color scheme of the DualSense. I think the final thing will look elegant, in white/black with a blue led.
Of course I could be way off.
If he's doing PS5 as well, I can't see the final unit looking anything like the devkit.
A bit of his philosophy: https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2013/10/10/meet-tetsu-sumii-the-man-behind-the-look-of-ps4/
And going by google he also designed PSVR, which shares the same color scheme of the DualSense. I think the final thing will look elegant, in white/black with a blue led.
Of course I could be way off.
i agree with you, however for the console it self I think they will go more for practicality then looks this time around; due to the complaints.
Man, I sure hope Sony has its cooling solution under control. I am afraid that it is still going to sound awful like that past two console cycles.
Yes, yes. It's happening.
Ah, nothing like a good old Solid State Drive drive.
I loathe the V-shaped design and hope the retail version looks nothing like it.
It seems to be that avoiding fan noise was one of their biggest priorities.
Let's hope so. We'll really know when we have thoroughly used it.