Any use for my PS3 Phat 40GB?

I have a few Phats that i refurbed myself last year, i went as far as succesfully fixing a few YLOD consoles including remarrying blue ray drives with cfw and delidding which was not an easy task. Its such a good feeling when you bring a console back from the dead.
I personally think the PHAT console is a thing of beauty.
 
How hard are they to get apart and service, thinking thermal paste more than anything to maybe stop it sounding quite so much like an A-10 tank buster on takeoff!
 
How hard are they to get apart and service, thinking thermal paste more than anything to maybe stop it sounding quite so much like an A-10 tank buster on takeoff!

Plenty of youtube tutorials showing how to disassemble them clean/repaste. Not a hard job. I stripped and modded mine for extra cooling and added a fan speed controller while it was apart.

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Unfortunately thermal paste will only do so much on the early Phat models. A de-lid is the best way to go but I found it difficult tbh. There a few good guides on YT by NSC modz
My CPU was getting up to 75° at idle and new thermal paste did next to nothing and it was so loud!
Both my PS3 are cechl03 so I followed Joe chips teardown on YT.
 
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I have a pair of PS3’s now, ones a backwards compatible fat with CFW and the other is a late PS3 slim which I use just for PS3 games as it’s quieter and less risk of killing my fat (hah)
 
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Unfortunately thermal paste will only do so much on the early Phat models. A de-lid is the best way to go but I found it difficult tbh. There a few good guides on YT by NSC modz
My CPU was getting up to 75° at idle and new thermal paste did next to nothing and it was so loud!
Both my PS3 are cechl03 so I followed Joe chips teardown on YT.

Not that you'd do this to a beloved phat, but my ultra slim also got taller feet and some holes to radiate heat away from the bottom plate.

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CECHA/CECHB/CECHC/CECHE are the only BC models. The first two have full hardware BC, while the latter two had partial software BC. Also, CECHE was only the MGS4 model.
 
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