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PS5 Fan will be optimized over time via Online Updates
- Thread starter jbug617
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In all interviews and blog posts in the past they always mentioned they putting a big focus towards cooling and noise of PS5 and later they keep showing the improvements and changes in this aspect damn gj Sony
It's tough. When a solution is presented to a problem, the anxious among us can't help but focus on the problem part. I'm guilty of this myself sometimes, but I know it doesn't need to be posted most of the time.
edit: lol see below vvvvvvv
It already will cool things just fine when the console is at its hottest. The main use case here is for the fan to slow down/not run as fast when the console doesn't need it at full power, reducing noise and wear & tear on the fan.
It's nothing but a good thing!
sucks if i never connect to the internet. Does PS5 game CDs come with system updates. 3rd world country with painful internet here. i want to use it local/offline.
This is a bit too concern-y.
Fan profiles are nothing new in the PC space; they're not one size fits all, never have been and never will be. The fact Sony can tailor this as time goes on is awesome.
Im yelling laughing. It's incredible how people flip these things around lmao.
You can update the consoles via USB.
You'll have to load them into your memory cart from special kiosks or wait for PS magazine that includes them on the disc.
Well I'm overly concern-y because my Pro got so loud after 3 months that I pretty much avoided buying anything on it because the sound was overwhelming. I just want a quiet console.
Cant it just do that when the sensor says the temp has dropped? less demand etc?
It's obviously nothing but a good thing, I just can't quite get my head around it lol.
This is really cool to hear. The fan should be fine already, but it's exciting that it can get even better per game with an update.
PS5 Slim will probably be a significantly smaller machine if they can shrink the APU at 5nm. The entire huge fan will go away and be replaced by a much smaller unit.
It's respectable what they did though. Liquid metal included.
It's respectable what they did though. Liquid metal included.
You misunderstood. It literally means they can adjust when fans kick up and help eliminate false positives of instances to kick the fan up at a per game basis.
Yea it can, but they are also adding in a bit of machine learning/use cases from the world over to help with it further.
Its actually pretty cool (no pun intended)
What Sony said was "we can adjust the software that controls the fans via updates", what journalists then wrote was "Sony is going to have up update it's fans cos it doesn't know what it's going". Don't worry about it, the only time I could see it being used is if some game comes out with a bug that makes the fan go 100% speed when it doesn't need to.
I was downloading RAM on Macintosh computers in the 90's!
I hope you are right. The fan curves I create (on my PC) depend on temperatures of the CPU and system. CPU hot -> fan spins faster, louder.
What difference does it make if game A or B pushes the CPU? Do they want to add more headroom for higher temperatures in game B because they now it will drop sooner than in game A?
thanks, that makes more sense then!
I still hope that this giant piece of a console will be dead silent for most games. Anything else would be a huge disappointment to be honest.
I definitely chuckled at this a lot longer than I should have, lol.
On topic: great news! They really took the fan issues from this gen and are trying everything to correct them, that's all you can ask for at this point.
They designed it in a way that it should completely ignore the temperature of the room and be unaffected by a hot room. It's in Cerny's first PS5 design talk.
The system has three temp sensors, so they can account for it just fine.
Contradicts what they said about deterministic power usage. Hopefully this doesn't mean fans get louder over time as everyone's systems collect dust.
What's so hard to understand? It's designed to stay as cool and quiet as possible. But if a couple years from now that have made it more efficient to cool the machine, how is that bad?
I'm guessing that it would smooth the fan curve.
For example. There is a demanding realtime cutscene incoming that would raise fan noise by 7 decibels, but if you raise the fan speed now, at a cost of 3 extra decibels for 10 seconds, the APU will be a few degrees cooler by the time the cutscene hits, and the fan noise would only rise by 5 decibels by the time it finishes instead. <-- I'm making all these numbers and units up. Please be gentle.
So, instead of this:
30db 30db 30db 30db 33db 35 db 37db 37db 37db 37db 35db 35db 32db 30db 30db 30db
You'd get something more like this this
30db 33db 33db 33db 33db 34db 35db 35db 35db 35db 34db 34db 32db 30db 30db 30db
In this example, darker green is quieter, but any green is virtually inaudible whereas any orange or red is a bit noisier. Fan curves could reduce the overall noise.
For all we know, the SX also does this. It's nothing particularly fancy IMO.
For example. There is a demanding realtime cutscene incoming that would raise fan noise by 7 decibels, but if you raise the fan speed now, at a cost of 3 extra decibels for 10 seconds, the APU will be a few degrees cooler by the time the cutscene hits, and the fan noise would only rise by 5 decibels by the time it finishes instead. <-- I'm making all these numbers and units up. Please be gentle.
So, instead of this:
30db 30db 30db 30db 33db 35 db 37db 37db 37db 37db 35db 35db 32db 30db 30db 30db
You'd get something more like this this
30db 33db 33db 33db 33db 34db 35db 35db 35db 35db 34db 34db 32db 30db 30db 30db
In this example, darker green is quieter, but any green is virtually inaudible whereas any orange or red is a bit noisier. Fan curves could reduce the overall noise.
For all we know, the SX also does this. It's nothing particularly fancy IMO.
User Banned (3 Days): Concern Trolling & Hostility over a Series of Posts
Seems reasonable to be concerned about the jet engine loud console maker already planning future optimization for their new unreleased console fan. It stems from the original concern of the console becoming louder over time due to how the system changed over time.
