Friday, Nov 9th 2007 by James Allan Brady


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So if you owned or know someone who owns an older model PS3 and then got your grubby little hands on a PS3 40GB model, you might have noticed its about 6 decibels quieter, puts out less heat, and uses about 100 watts less power. Well, that’s not a fluke, it’s a hardware upgrade.

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The 40GB PS3’s do in fact have 65nm process cell processors, but the graphics hardware is still running on a 90nm process, so the switchover isn’t complete. Sadly you also lose all backwards compatibility which kind of sucks.

For those of you that can’t fathom the reasoning behind backwards compatibility being a major issue, it is as follows, early adopters, the fans of the Sony gaming line, got stuck with a choice of 5 or 6 hundred dollar bills for their systems, maybe more if they bought it off of the grey market. So, it would follow, that if they were that big of a fan, they had previous PlayStation systems and thus older games, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t like taxing my electrical system until the break blows or a fire catches, so the fewer systems I have to keep hooked up the better.

Thanks Sony: 40GB PlayStation 3 Uses 65nm Cell Afterall [via DailyTech]

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  1.  UltraOrange   View all comments by UltraOrange  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma Quote

    Um what is up with the apple logo on the PS3?? RIght above the controller e-mail me what it’s there for

  2.  James Allan Brady   View all comments by James Allan Brady  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma Quote

    well, personally i cant see it, maybe i need to re-configure my monitor, but i do remember that back before the PS3 was released there was a big hoax about the leaked PS3 advertisements having an apple logo in them

    i dont think anyone ever got a reason why, people just kind of moved on


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