I took apart my PS5 Slim. Here's what i found out... 

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The problem with game preservation is the reliance on day 1 patches to fix issues in shipped games. 15 Years from now unless you downloaded all the patches and games to some hard disk, it wont matter which ps5 you have, you'll be playing a bugged game. I hope in the future they develop some kind of patch download service for old systems.

If you look closely, you can see a number of dots beside the different size screwholes. The number indicates which screw. Its really clever in my opinion.

The fan is actually slightly different when you put them side by side with the first revision.

There was a die shrink. They went from 7nm to 6nm I believe. The die is in fact smaller, it's been measured.

The biggest question for the detachable disc drive is what many online are already asking. Once the disc drive has already been paired to the console, "is this a one time process for the life of the console, OR will it be required as part of the initial setup every time the console performs a factory reset?" Someone should do a video on this in order to answer this popular question.

I'm genuinely impressed Sony made the console so user friendly to upgrade and repair. Even compared to my original PS2 I've taken apart a few times, this look much more straight forwards. Props to Sony. The disc drive registration really rubs me the wrong way though. I'm assuming they have to pay to license the disc drive software or something, and its a way to save money? Honestly not sure.

I took apart my PS5 here is what I found............*5 minutes later*...Yeah...that's ehhh?...that's a PS5 alright...

The modularity of the design seems to make it very user friendly and servicable

The most shocking thing about this video is that Opera is still a thing 😮

Currently you can take 2 different ps5 slims register the drives and swap them and re register the drives and it works fine. That might change with future firmware because sony hates its customers but its where we are.

Opera GX comes also with a massive amount of tracking 🙃

Fantastic music choice for the later half of the video, you can never go wrong with an Ace Combat soundtrack

It just doesn’t look like that much of a difference, the original PlayStation to the PSOne was a huge difference, the PS2 to PS2 Slim looked like it was literally sliced in half and compressed down, the PS3 to PS3 Slim was a great design change and reduced the size of the original behemoth massively. This looks like they literally scaled it down slightly in photoshop and added a racing stripe just to show it’s ‘new’.

A MVG video perfect way to relax after a morning walk

That's a nice board layout and it appears that we can still solder stuff to it for repair and other mods. Thanks for the disassembly and overview MVG!

The PS5 already had a die shrink from 7nm to 6nm not that long ago in the original model. That's why they didn't change it again for the Slim.

Honestly miss the boxy look like the PS2.

I would like to know more about the noise profile of the console. My Launch PS5 has a rattling Nidec fan and a buzzing Power Supply. It never ran "whisper quiet" for me when playing PS5 games. I wonder if that's different with the new model. Or maybe it's still just bad luck.

The console could still be a lot smaller if sony would make the slim model completely flat on all sides, the weird shapes still makes it look like there is a lot of the space wasted, but of course if these shapes were gone the whole personality of this console would be gone too.

Digging the Ace Combat 7 Fort Grays music throughout the vid MVG ;)

It's pretty amazing to witness such a low component count on modern consoles. We got the SoC, DRAM and their power converters taking up half the space on the board, and the rest spread among flash, network, a few I/O transceivers and that seems about it.. All highly integrated. Also it's funny to me how they will go and use these rounded traces for high-speed signals but do not seem to feature any skew compensation on the exterior layers at least. It's true that getting theoretical perfect timing does not matter this much on these relatively short traces but it's still funny to me to have that aesthetic effort going on. Also, I'm not so sure having this many decoupling capacitors right under the SoC is such a great idea, that must eat into the power plane capacitance.. Definitely interesting to have an outer glimpse at this PCB. Thanks for sharing!

Loving the Ace Combat background music!

Thanks for the video MVG. Always informational

happy thanksgiving MVG

With the housing being so easily removed, I guess it won't be long before we see new housing with artwork.

I have no plans to buy any modern game consoles, but its still neat to see what's inside them.

The PS5 had a die shrink. First Gen had 7ff while later ps5 including the slim has 6ff node. For some reason they startend shipping those already last year.

You are not running 6.00, you are at 07.40, 6:22

with the panels off, the gap next to the fan makes the ps5 slim look like a giant keychain! 😄

1:30 Interstellar Soundtrack gives me allways vibes ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I knew you were using music from Ace Combat 7 before I looked. Nice.

another great video. Thanks MUG

Nothing better than an mvg upload I swear 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥

Ace Combat BGM for the outro *Chef's Kiss*

Have you tried to remove and install the clock battery?

Considering that the plastic panel went flying across the room when I opened my original model PS5, having the hard drive more easily accessible is a very good thing.

This model uses a 6nm version of the SoC that was introduced with the PS5 that came in the God of War bundle. The launch models were using the 7nm SoC that had issues with over heating.

The most interesting thing inside for me is that they're still using liquid metal on the SOC

The Ace Combat music is amazing

Loving that AC7 music

Despite not being interested in the console itself, pretty interesting they took the approach of allowing users to easily access the internals like that. With this removeable drive, does this mean you can easily buy a used drive down the road and swap it out without the need to switch out the PCB and just register it to your account? Because that is really cool if they did that.

Great video MVG! I am only seeing videos regarding the removable and registration Disc discussion in videos about 5 months ago. Is this something that is a non issue today in May 2024? I have been watching used PS5s and originally liked the idea of an easy replacement of the disc drive so I didn't have to take it to a repair shop. However, the registration part scares me because I do collect many PS4 and PS5 games and want to preserve that. Any new comments on this topic, it appears it is a one time registration for the disc to the console. Should I look for the last version of the OG instead of picking up a slim? Thx

100 plus coming out of the chassis is kind of scary. My video card hits 181 Farenheit at the board before the turbo clock evens out. Putting my hand at the fans leaving the chassis I'm guessing it's about 85 degrees. I'd like to see what the board thermals are registering from the BIOS. Also, I'd like to know what the secondary chips on the board are. Specifically the one near the battery with the QR code on it.

I hope that the Pro model comes with an expansion slot that you could buy and plug in to the ps5 pro to enable ps3 backwards compatibility, it would have to include some additional hardware to handle the CELL processor emulation. Knowing Sony this will never happen.

I got a slim for my gaming room(fat in living room), my issue is even though heat isnt worse it isnt better. In the FGC we're having issues with ps5s getting destroyed due to the USB ports melting being ripped out. The 2 usb c ports up front are great but no stick manufacturer uses USB c as the default.

@MVG are you sure that's not firmware 7.4 and not 6.0? I've got a PS5 with firmware 3.10 which appears on the left hand side with the area where yours says 6.0 mine has zeros.

There already was a die shrink with last, 1200 series of PS5, down to 6nm with Oberon+ revision of SoC.

Still waiting for the UK release like it's 1999

@ModernVintageGamer - will there ever be a MVG channel focused on good old PC games and good old PC hardware? Because that would be AMAZING!

How hard is it to replace the drive on the original anyways?

Ok, Lets wait the slim slim version.

At 9:15 if you look closely, you can see beside each screw hole are dots which tell you the screw size.

Disk drive button is a big upgrade 👍 Everytime I eject a disk it’s like playing russian roulette with the power button …which button is it again?! 😂

But what if I buy a Gonzalo Slim with the Disc Drive? Am I good? Do I still need to connect one time? I am specifically an offline gamer (a one time connection now isn't bad, but what about 20 years from now?).

Browser look interesting, I'll have to give it a go!

Honestly, I don't see the one-time online drive verification check as a problem on the preservation front. The majority of users will be buying new units now, and used units when the PS5 is retired. Used dives from one system don't need to be re-verified to be installed on another. And as far as the few new units that may be floating around in the future when the verification servers are gone, by then someone will have come up with a trick to verify the drive without the servers.

I'm glad the drive can be swapped out easily, as that's usually the first thing to die on vintage consoles, nice future thinking on Sony's behalf. Would be curious if a third-party option would be possible, and if it'd also require registration. Glad they kept it M.2 easily accessible, and 2280/22110 compatible instead of shrinking it down to a 2230 like the steamdeck/rog ally. Here's hoping Sony rethinks having to register the drive, or if registration can be bypassed in a future cfw/jailbreak, but alas time will tell. Would love to see if performance takes a hit due to overheating during intense gaming sessions

Glad for the internal PSU.

I wonder what is the connector/protocol used for the drive. Seems to have too many connectors for simple usb3

We got the die shrink early (before the slim) this time around, they went from 7nm to 6nm with the CFI-1202+ about a year ago I doubt they'll do another die shrink before a couple of years...

i dont like the stand of the slim version, but its cool the see that the BD XL Drive is now Detechable/Swapable when its broken

The power & eject buttons are the only improvements. The shape is still stupid.

Got the PS5 Slim digital for someone's kid and it overheated within 30 minutes of downloading a game. I'm glad I spent money on it.

PS5 heatsinks have ALWAYS been on top along with the power supply (when it's laid horizontally).

Barring the BDXL drive DRM requiring online registration, I love the fact that I can replace the BDXL drive in my PS5 Slim easily if there's something wonky with it. Also, I am kinda not surprised that PS5 Slim still use liquid metal thermal paste, as obviously you're handling what's essentially a rather powerful supercomputer on chip which demand decent cooling - regular thermal pastes won't cut the mustard here. As for the removable panels, I am seriously considering getting black ones.

2:22 oooh it's a slim version... dear god

Its amazing how iv still not seen a PS5 readily available for sale at any store yet theres already a slim version.

Gotta give it to Sony for making the most attractive hardware guts! Now they just need to work on making the outside look better! 😂

PS5 Black Friday bundle comes with Spiderman2 for free, now is prolly the best time to get one, i guess.

MVG, maybe can use blue ray connector to make ODE

Oh come on man, not you too, you know opera is run by a very shady company, this browser is spyware. Next you’re gonna be telling us how great raid shadow legends is.

if you are like me and didn't decide to get a ps5 until now. why not the slim? i got the spiderman 2 edition slim because it was the exact same price as the none slim. what pushed it over the edge for me was the extra internal storage. now add in the advantages, its smaller & lighter, swappable disc drive.

Got a Australian accent but talks in inches and fahrenheit Love your videos by the way

The one time internet connectivity is to combat firmware flashing exploits on the disc drive.

Please add metric as well for us outside of US! Cheers! 😁

You said there hasn’t been a die shrink, but I’m pretty sure there has been. 7nm -> 6nm

You still need internet to save locally. i have the fat model ps5 and it says it needs internet to save locally. its the disc drive model. i have physical games on disc.

a 2min sponsor is brutal.... i hope sponsors realize this.... But anyway, thank you for your channel!

“…play these games 15-20 years from now on your PS5…” I’m playing 22 year old digital Xbox games, and 18 year old digital Xbox 360 games with online play (any Xbox 360 game that used standard Xbox Live servers still works fine for online play on even a 10 year old Xbox through back-compat). Digital games on PC is even better than that. There’s no reason you should have to go physical to have that experience. And now that back-compat is well established on both Xbox and PS, I don’t think we will have many problems with this in the future. They may eventually turn off support for an old box, but so long as everything runs just great on the new box I think that’s acceptable. Old boxes die eventually anyway, if used regularly. I have a bunch of old consoles that work fine, but I also don’t use them regularly.

My question is can you re-register the disk drive, if say you sell your disk drive to someone, or is that drive forever married to the original PS5?

so slim is just a ps5 in a smaller case and a better cooling, that will be much easier for universal mods in 2035-2040, when ps5 becomes retro!

It's a shame they didn't get rid of the liquid metal...

The way he rubbed that eject button 😏@3:46

so if you buy the model with no disc drive model , does it still has the slit in the case?

Yes man !!! I lole your videos.

None slim PS5 video have answered my question: does factory reset /reinstall system software from safe mode unregister disc drive? If not, I don't see why we should choose the old model.

I lvoe teardown vids!

I usually use my controller to eject disc still doesn't make sense why the original had chameleon buttons

As far as I understand it only needs an internet connection to register the drive the first time when you install it. Then it's the same as the classic PS5. Why wouldn't you recommend it for physical media?

Why on earth do you need to register the disc drive!?

Maybe consider showing metric system values for the international viewers. Thanks!

In Germany, we don't even know when this version will be available.

Does it still tip over even when it’s on its side already, like the fat model ?

I lost all interest in consoles after the ps3 x360 days, I only game on pc since but I must say this is shocking to see a console that's finally made to be easy to clean, impressive sony well done

Sony already had a die shrink with 7nm to 6nm which you'd expect MVG to know

Massively better design IMO, purely speaking about the looks. Just looks much more finished, the release model never stopped looking odd to me.

@7:00 the registration is required by law to supposedly help prevent piracy. Sony doesn't have a choice on the registration.

Despite it being feint, the BGM was unmistakably from Keiki Kobayashi. I fully support MVG using Ace Combat music in his videos!

Man, the PS2 Slim throws so much mad shade at this by just existing...