YLOD PS3

blueshift · 28 Feb 2013 at 18:15

A friend of mine wants to buy my Ps3 off me even though it has the YLOD, its the old fatboy one,how much do you think its worth?

MadMatty · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:05

Worth nothing if its dead. Be a mate and give it to him

Armageus · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:12

MadMatty said:
Worth nothing if its dead. Be a mate and give it to him

To be fair even dead one's are worth money on auction sites - probably due to their being plenty of dodgy people who buy them, give them the hot air gun treatment and some new thermal paste and sell them back on.

I sold my original 60Gb after it YLOD'ed - I gave it the heatgun treatment (as I had to take it apart to get a friend's borrowed game out anyway), and auctioned it on, making £80 having disclosed it had suffered a YLOD.

AshD93 · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:22

They're worth money as they play PS2 games.

If you don't mind losing a bit of cash, open it up yourself and learn something.

Trying reflowing it yourself and try to get it working.

Armageus · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:29

AshD93 said:
They're worth money as they play PS2 games.

Only if it was an original 20GB or 60GB Model - the 40GB and 160GB models used the same case and aren't backwards compatible - and only some of the 80GB models are.

AshD93 said:
If you don't mind losing a bit of cash, open it up yourself and learn something.

Trying reflowing it yourself and try to get it working.

To be fair not too hard a job as plenty of guides on the web - I had to learn pretty sharpish as I borrowed a friend's Killzone 3 when it first came out and it YLODed my PS3 (Fun fact: The Original 60GB also doesn't have any way to physically eject any discs)