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Can you kill a PS3? The answer might surprise you.

Category: PlayStation 3, Posted: 08/12/2007 at 02:17PM EDT by Billy Wang, Contributor

deathtops3 This sounds like extreme boot camp for the PlayStation 3; the folks at PS3 Vault put a PS3 through a variety of extreme and hardcore tests to see if it can still perform adequately. In the end, the results were pretty surprising.

All three tests were performed with similar conditions; continuous 108 hours of use split between games and movies, the games of choice were Resistance: Fall of Man, MotorStorm and Enchanted Arms, 10 different Blu-Ray movies, and there were the same number of players during each test and the same controllers were used through each test.

The three tests represented three radically different environments, the first was your typical family room (temperature was at a comfortable 73 degrees F), the second was in back of a Freezer Van (temperatures started at 50 degrees F and progressed down to 0 degrees F) and the third was a Heat Sauna (temperatures started at 100 degrees F and increased up to 120 degrees F).

So what were the results? The PS3 passed all three tests with flying colors; there weren't any crashes or any lock-ups. Even in extreme cold or hot environments, the PS3 was fully playable and maintained its use for all 108 hours in each test. I wouldn't even bet the Xbox 360 could last that long.

Posted by Dr.Aaron on 08/12/2007 at 02:34PM

The 360 would get the 3 lights if you just mentioned that it would go in the sauna lol...

Posted by Vincent on 08/12/2007 at 03:01PM

Yes, 360's are very bad consoles :@

Posted by Archem on 08/12/2007 at 03:01PM

Lol @ Dr. Aaron! So true!

Posted by hoboman725 on 08/12/2007 at 03:50PM

"in back of a Freezer Van (temperatures started at 50 degrees F and progressed down to 0 degrees F)"
Now THERE'S an idea for effective cooling...

Posted by Lopez on 08/12/2007 at 04:51PM

Even though it is quite impressive, we have to ask: What kind of idiot plays his/her ps3 for 108 hours straight. Moreover, what kind of idiot plays his/her ps3 in the back of a freezer van or a sauna for 108 hours straight.

Posted by Brendon on 08/12/2007 at 06:49PM

@ Lopez
No comment.

Posted by Kester on 08/13/2007 at 10:31AM

The same idiots that leave their PC's on 24/7 (looks at most people here).
I left my PS2 on, ingame, for 7 months once. Came back to it and carried on playing Gran Turismo 4, where I left off (which iirc was half way through a race). Now that's what I call a stable system.

Posted by Dr.Aaron on 08/13/2007 at 02:12PM

lol kester!

Posted by delphian on 08/14/2007 at 11:13PM

@ Kester: the drive motors, the power switch, and other components of a PC are more quickly worn out by continually shutting down and restarting your computer. It also puts too much stress on the read/write heads inside the hard drive. If you use your computer every day, it's actually not the wisest decision to shut it down every day. To sacrifice this for the reduction of the absolutely inconsequential consumption of electricity by a computer in idle mode would be unwise. So much for that idiot comment.