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These PlayStation 5 cooling fans & cooling base accessories literally do nothing, and even worse, they make the performance worse. We apply our strict thermal & noise tests to accessories.
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Console cooling fans are common aftermarket accessories for all generations of console, but this particular generation is interesting for another reason: The third-party “cooling fan” manufacturers jumped the gun, especially with low supply of the consoles, and we’re not sure that they even tested their own devices. It’s amazing that the cooling fans fit at all, but the ones we chose — one of which has over *300* reviews on Amazon, mostly positive — actually make things worse. The only thing going for these cooling fans is that we think the design is simply incompetent and likely isn’t malicious — but you could absolutely make an argument that selling a product without validating it has underlying ill intent.
Watch our Xbox Series X thermals video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqv4meZcVEk
Watch our PlayStation 5 thermals video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmggkW6usmQ
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – PS5 Cooling Base & Fans Review
02:20 – What You Get & Marketing
05:58 – Tear-Down (Physically & Morally)
08:49 – How They (Don’t) Work
10:15 – Fan RPN Measurements
12:25 – Expert Third-Party Aesthetics Analysis
13:29 – PS5 SOC Thermals with Fan Mod
14:40 – PS5 Memory Thermals with Fan Mod
15:09 – Noise Testing with Screeching Banshee Fan Mod
16:31 – No.
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Writing, Testing: Steve Burke
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman
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Like we said in the video, flipping the fans is pointless because (A) this thing screams and you shouldn't use it anyway, (B) the plastic impedes more airflow than the fans add, (C) attempting to accelerate the exhaust in this manner is only going to make things worse.
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Watch our Xbox Series X thermals video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqv4meZcVEk
Watch our PlayStation 5 thermals video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmggkW6usmQ
Watch our PlayStation & Xbox Schlieren Photography video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FZ3cQFFZmQ
Look it’s just telling exhausted air to get back in there and do its job. There’s some life left in it.
Is he indirectly saying that Austin was a fool to buy these crap
That little one reminds me of the early days of the original xbox 360
hahahaha
So basically some Chinese people think we need a ps4 pro emulator accessory for the "P5".
I expect the majority of positive reviews at least are fake. Who knows what unwanted items were shipped to those people in order to trick Amazon into allowing those reviews? Given how cheap these things must be to produce, they could send those people the actual product and get their money's worth!
I had a similar "cooling fan" for my (OG/Phat) 360 and it didn't help at all. I do think it made things worse.
I quite enjoy the hammer-like care with which you handle the PS5. 🙂
Thx guys I loved it
1:20 why؟
Flip the fans just for the fun of it
I do believe you when you say reversing the fans in the unit#2 is insufficient to make it perform… but i would like to see it tested regardless just how bad it is exactly 😀
And while it's still wrong, i wonder if next step, removing some plastic, would make any difference.
Honolable Chinese makels did again.
"Cooling mods are definitely going to be a 'Hot Topic' " Good one! Why would you make such a cooling mod, for a device that already has a big blower? At the very least, the supplemental fans should be at least as big as the included blower.
On the bright side, the fans aren't screwed down. That means that you could potentially reverse the polarity of the air flow, if you wanted to. I'm sure it wouldn't affect things enough to be worth the price, but it might be interesting to see, if it affects the results in a way that's helpful in the slightest.
My friend got one for his 360 when the red ring fear was at it's strongest. It sounded like a coffee grinder and the power port melted. His 360 also red ringed so… that worked out… I was never interested in them, but after that, I knew never to touch them.
I've had tons of aftermarket cooling fans for various consoles, all cheap chinese units. Roughly half of them blew the wrong way and I had to go in and flip them lol as well as cut out some plastic because the fans weren't good enough and were just creating restriction. I still buy them to play with them because I like the idea.
Ok is there a better one to buy?
That's an impressive amount of wasted plastic, space, and even air.
I purchased the PS5 stand model. Set it up and turned on the fan and it was so loud that I turned it off and never turned it back on. But on the plus side it makes the PS5 a little sturdier standing up and the controller dock works ok plus mine has a spot to hang your headphones.
Description: It heats up the device.
Review Summary: It heats up the device
Case Closed…. why are we even wasting time here Steve?
There's a lost party of adventurous PC gaming hardware enthusiasts wandering aimlessly inside the hot endless void of Thermaltake's dark bag of exhaust-holding. For years now they've been desperately searching for a way out of the burning pocket dimension after being teleported there by the evil wizards in Thermaltake's tower of nefarious marketing. They seek nothing else but freedom from the constant influx of 90⁰ C air. Air that carries pestilent clouds of cat hair, dead human skin cells, pastry and Dorito crumbs, which regularly combine to form giant roaming dust clouds not unlike a sandstorm of the great dunes of Calradia.
What if you flip the fans?
Could you stop beating up the PS5 physically? 😂 Rude af to people who don't own one, if you don't want it give it away.
such a waste of money and plastic..
Steve's face and voice at times demonstrates he's had enough of this shit.
out_of_stock(NVIDA, AMD)
It can't be just me that's curious what happens when you turn the fans over so they are sucking air out the back?
America uses freedom units….get it right
The suspense was really killing me: should I buy it or not?
It's an Evil masterplan to destroy as many PS5's as possible took keep stock low, so they are able to sell more scalped PS5's… I can almost hear the scalpers laugh in their evil lair…
What happens if you put the game the right way?
I facepalmed a record number of times before even the sponsor message in this video.
Thank you Steve, I appreciate your work and dedication.I don't trust any laptop cooling either. This is why I mod myself, EVERY DEGREE MATTERS!!!! #Overclockers
Love this comedy piece! LMAO.
Take these products and add RBG and a ROG sticker and we can charge double
Baten
excellent chinese engineering
Reading the Amazon reviews of the one that clips on the back has utterly devastated my faith in being able to look at online customer reviews for anything now.
The ps5 is actually quite well cooled and only gets loud if you stick it somewhere with no real airflow. Ps2 (fat) and ps4 (all) coolers at least made sense.
You know a ps5 panel replacement or DIY mod with a nice strong PC fan over the blower intake would be both easy and effective.
Take it a step further and seal of the original intakes and and a dust filter to the purposed fan would be even better.
Watching this video gave me an idea for my PS5, now it stays cool no matter how long I play.
Is it 2007 again? It looks like Nyko Intercooler for Xbox360!
What happens to the thermals if you reverse the fans on the rear cooler? Does it help, or is it still worse than stock?
Someone actually went to the effort to design this, tool it up and manufacture it, they even came up with a clever mounting mechanism. I don't understand how they can go to all that effort and still be terrible..
I dont even care if it wouldn’t change anything im pretty sure me and alot of others would have loved to see too see the fans flipped. It wouldn’t have taken much effort. Not hating just saying. With the ammount it was mentioned it felt like it was being set up but then it just never happened. Missed content opportunity
To HEAT the P5