Using Your PS5 Vertically May Result in Hardware Failure
The liquid metal used to help cool the custom AMD Zen 2 CPU is leaking in some PS5 console.
You Might Want To Lay Your PS5 Horizontally, Liquid Metal Leakage Leading To Failures When Errect
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So apparently the PS5 already needs to be damaged in some way for anything to leak, it's not going to leak by just standing it vertically.
Another terrible headline smh.
Another terrible headline smh.
The fact it is happening points to a production issue. The headline seems fine since the issue only occurs if vertically. It being previously damaged or not is largely irrelevant because you have no way to know if yours has been. Essentially, laying it horizontal is the safest way forward.
Been laying mine horizontally since launch. Just made more sense to me then.
Liquid metal leakage when erect?! Sounds inappropriate.
Really bad that Sony didn't test this, it's basically a biohazard waiting to happen. Doesn't help that all their commercials show it standing up.
This makes Sony look really, really bad.
Yea the reports I'm seeing are all over the place, people are largely bashing it because the original report said that this only occurs if "something bad" happens to the PS5, and people automatically assumed it meant dropping it or attempting to fix it and breaking it. Wtf does something bad even mean? Something that's happened externally? Internally from normal playing?
It would be good to get clarity, I would imagine this would be a much larger issue if it was just a case of placing it vertically, I doubt we've seen the last of this.
Maybe they did? And these are just manufacturing defects? There haven't been any such cases since launch until now and even then it seems like it's isolated to a very select few consoles? That youtuber and one other case as reported in the article out of 30+ million consoles. Many have said they have used vertical since launch and had no issues. Sounds like it is when there is a crack in the seal between the APU and cooler that this would happen.
"In Sony’s case, this issue is happening to people whose console is jostled or bumped hard enough to break the seal between the CPU heat sink and the top of the chip".
So if you dropped your Ps5 or maybe bump it around too much there's greater chance of the seal breaking.
Odds are it will be down to an issue in the manufacturing process. These tend to be limited to a batch or two but can be far more widespread.
I have that guy blocked. Weird that it still shows here for me.
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Additional context:
"The problem is still real AFAIK, but there is *no evidence* that it happens on consoles that have been sitting in their box. That part was a complete misunderstanding on our end."
So still a potential issue for consoles that have been in use, just not a permeating issue for those that have not yet been purchased.
"The problem is still real AFAIK, but there is *no evidence* that it happens on consoles that have been sitting in their box. That part was a complete misunderstanding on our end."
So still a potential issue for consoles that have been in use, just not a permeating issue for those that have not yet been purchased.
Going by his tweet, Likely because the Twitter moron can't read.
He still gives out and shares good sources IMO. Tough crowd 
Still not really a widespread issue since people only find out after it's been opened at a repair shop but who knows after a few more years. This repair shop owner thinks Sony did go above and beyond for the barrier for what it's worth from the same article.
"Spawn Wave of SpawnWaveMedia for one, a YouTuber who ran a console repair shop for years prior to his YouTube career. He doesn’t believe this should really be that much of a problem, due to the extensive barrier Sony placed around the liquid metal, and his understanding of how the cooling liquid works in the first place.
He also pointed out that the reports of this happening are still very few, and not evidence that there’s a rampant issue.
“Sony did go above and beyond here with this barrier.”
Spawn Wave does however point out how the liquid metal might look towards the end of the PS5’s life cycle, without being replaced for multiple years."
Still not really a widespread issue since people only find out after it's been opened at a repair shop but who knows after a few more years. This repair shop owner thinks Sony did go above and beyond for the barrier for what it's worth from the same article.
"Spawn Wave of SpawnWaveMedia for one, a YouTuber who ran a console repair shop for years prior to his YouTube career. He doesn’t believe this should really be that much of a problem, due to the extensive barrier Sony placed around the liquid metal, and his understanding of how the cooling liquid works in the first place.
He also pointed out that the reports of this happening are still very few, and not evidence that there’s a rampant issue.
“Sony did go above and beyond here with this barrier.”
Spawn Wave does however point out how the liquid metal might look towards the end of the PS5’s life cycle, without being replaced for multiple years."
I am done with those yahoo's on social media. I blocked him, Red Dragon, Colt Eastwood, etc. Just a bunch of f***ing losers IMO.He still gives out and shares good sources IMO. Tough crowd