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The above suggestions are good (essentially), but for me they were by far not enough. I have a preordered original 60gb Fat and it was running like a lawnmower for months. I tried everything, but it just didn't help me.
That was until I tore it apart and hand-cleaned every last dusty part of it. This is not for the faint of heart -- you would do well to ...
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Your PS3 controller batteries are old, as you've mentioned. Meaning they hold less charge. This is the number 1 contributing factor. However there is another factor: the amount you use them has no effect on their ability to hold charge, but does affect their current state of charge.
There are three things that make a battery lose its charge:
a) Use: ...
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The ideal solution for you would be, of course to have a fully functioning 60GB PS3 last forever. This would give you both things you want: your saves and your backwards compatibility.
Reballing your PS3( re-soldering the chip joints )
This service: http://ps3repairman.com/ps3-repair-services/ps3-reballing-service
Offers to reball for 90$USD + 35$ ...
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Because not all code is parallel (i.e. able to take advantage of multiple cores) and because PCSX2 is very much a work in progress. I had the same model CPU and about the same sort of performance. Keep in mind that the PS2 has some very exotic hardware, so emulation is necessarily complex.
Looking at your hardware, though, an upgrade to your RAM would ...
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Unfortunately there are high chances that this is a sign of an YLOD coming.
If it beeps when you quit certain games and not too often it might be the software but considering it beeps when you turn it on, I think it's a sign of YLOD.
For your second question, well you can't just swap it. You have to transfer your content on the new console since when you ...
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Buy a can of compressed air(in a lot of places you have to be 18, so possibly have your parents/whoever) and unplug the PS3. Spray the compressed air through all the vents and such. wait about 5 minutes to be safe( let all the liquid stuff dry that can come out as well as possible condensation) and then see if that helps.
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Wireless mice have several disadvantages for gaming, latency being one of them. They also have a nasty habit of dying just as you're about to get the game-winning kill. It may or may not be the biggest/only bottleneck to your gaming performance, but it's certainly true that more gaming mice exist that are wired than wireless.
As far as testing it goes, ...
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There are some good dust discussions above, also be aware of pet hair. If you don't have pets, ignore this, but if you do have pets try getting the ps3 off the ground and into a cubby, compartment, enclosed space, etc... to get it away from the destructive substance that is pet hair. I just heard a story on NPR about how bad pet hair is for the efficiency of ...
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USB flash drives are fast enough to store data, and yes, there are limitations.
Using a compatible flash drive over 1 GB, you can reserve a maximum of 16 GB for profiles, game saves, and downloadable content. To use USB storage, you'll need to configure it first. Plug it in and go to System Settings, Memory, then select your device to start setting it up.
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I've never heard of this problem, nor can I find information regarding this specific issue. However, after reading through the PS3 hardware specifications, I'd be almost certain that you have a bad RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' GPU.
The RSX chip was co-developed developed by Sony and NVidia and is proprietary to the PS3. The only way that you can get your ...
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Tracking technology
Laser mice are generally the best, though their extreme precision occasionally causes problems with awkward surfaces. But I play on a rough wooden table with my laser mouse and I rarely notice when I'm moving over the wood instead of my mousepad. Optical doesn't work well with reflective or black surfaces. I'm not really sure what the ...
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Tom's Hardware every now and then publishes "Best Graphics Cards For The Money". The last page of each one is the Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart.
"... or better" would translate to "same tier or any tier above" in the chart.
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A company called Device Side Data produces a device called the FC5025 which can adapt a 5 1/4" drive to a USB port. You will still need to power the drive so this approach will require either an external power source or a tower or desktop computer. There are also other limitations to this device, such as the inability to write to the disks or to read most ...
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Graphics cards have a number of important statistics. Like CPUs, GPUs can be measured by clock speed, number of cores, and bus bandwidth. Additionally, the amount of dedicated graphics memory will have a performance impact when running software that loads a lot of textures or other graphical data into memory. One statistic that can be calculated from these ...
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To start off: YES, formatting a USB Drive for use with an Xbox will erase all files that are currently on the USB drive.
In order for the Xbox to format a USB drive for use, the USB drive must go through some checks on performance and available space (minimum of 1GB required). Once that's done you can set how much space you want reserved on the drive to be ...
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I believe if you crack open the box you void any warranty or agreement with Sony, so I would advise against it if at all possible.
Having said that I have taken a PS3 apart and fiddled around with the inner workings a few times for various side projects and while its not particularly easy you can replace the blu-ray drive in a PS3 by yourself. Assuming you ...
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This can be done, although there is the possibility of doing further damage to your console.
Soldering irons are generally not used for repairs such as these, the joints are too small to use standard soldering techniques.
There are two basic techniques for repairing problems with PS3 solder, reflowing and reballing.
Reflowing is a process where the ...
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You can't, there are simply too many variables to consider: RAM, motherboard, GPU, the game and its settings, other processes, OS, etc. A good i3 or an i5 will be sufficient to run most AAA titles adequately. If, on the other hand, you want to run CPU-intensive games like Dwarf Fortress or emulate recent consoles like the PS2, you will want to get the best ...
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There are some modern TVs that will emulate certain features of tube TVs, and there are other ways of upconverting. Playing your older games on a (compatible) PS3, can naturally upconvert them to a higher resolution, the (compatible) PS3 has various settings to make playing the older games work in various ways.
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There is not a way to damage a disc by playing the same part of the game over and over again. The power output of the laser is not sufficient to damage commercially printed discs in any reasonable time frame. The motor that moves the laser will likely fail before the disc or any of the other components will.
It's also not true that playing a particular ...
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A higher capacity (mAh) will not ruin your PSP 2000. Extended batteries are ones that have been made with more capacity (mAh), or amps, in order to power its device for a longer period of time. If your PSP (1st gen) has been powered by a lower capacity (mAh) battery, switching to an extended battery with a higher capacity (mAh) will not harm your PSP 2000. ...
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At the center of my heart I am an avid retro-gamer. About 6 months ago I decided that I wanted to work on a game that had a real "8-bit" feel to it and I wanted it to look more than being just a blocky-looking game. It had to feel like you were playing on an old, gaming system and playing on an CRT television.
In short, what you want to see are the ...
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you should choose High Performance NVIDIA processor, this is suitable with graphics device of your laptop VGA card. About integrated graphics, this software installed automatically by OS ( WIndows ) and not match driver for VGA graphics device. Don't forget to check on Device manager to ensure that graphics device driver installed correctly.
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It really depends what game you are playing. In some games playing on a lower specced machine will give you an advantage because you have to play on lower graphics. I know in ARMA 2 if you set your graphics low enough you can see and shot right through some obstacles at long range. In Starcraft 2 pros prefer to play on lower graphics because it lets them see ...
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In theory, you should have no problems. Any 2.5" drive should fit in that bay. It's good you have the system on the 12 GB flash, it'll make booting after installation of the HDD (drive) easier. Now, the Slim drive will fit: the Slim (S) and SuperSlim (SS) both use 2.5" SATA (I think they're all Hitachi SATAs). They even use the same SATA cables (I believe a ...
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You can use an online utility like HWCompare to determine how your graphics card compares to another graphics card.
Simply select your graphics card from the first drop and and the graphics card (or a graphics card from the series of graphics cards) mentioned in the minimum specifications for the game you want to play and this will load a page full of ...
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This is a tricky one. Apple (by and large) keeps their stuff pretty much under wraps, and doesn't expose most of this functionality.
It should be possible to set a maximum p-state or clock frequency on the CPU, which would effectively throttle the performance of the game, but all of the support for this is 3rd party, and largely Apple has locked out access ...
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Part 1: The lasers will be more accurate then the infrared. Also they are extremely useful for anyone doing work with Art of Photos
Part 2: The higher the DPI that you have, the more precise the movements with the mouse, but also increased mouse sensitivity. Most manufactures have built in buttons on their mouses that allow you to change the DPI on the fly, ...
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It is a hardware problem is software updates don't fix it.
Make sure you have the latest system update and AC version.
Cleaning it is definitely a good idea and it isn't too complicated. The dust build-up will restrict airflow effectively reducing the amount of heat dissipation that is possible which can result in heat damage.
A helpful teardown guide:
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There is no difference in console models. Although, they do use different disc drives in different batches. For example, a fat 360, can have a LG drive, while another fat 360 can have a Samsung drive.
You are having problems with scratched discs, because your drive is not able to read the data. Technically, it should be unplayable in such case. But, your ...
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