Overclocking a PS3 with Project RSX Boost 

Evilnat's BETA 6 OC files are already gone, new BETA 7 has no OC yet.

Fyi, we are discovering the 2500 series slims can reach up to 900/950.

Good to se that there are still pople working on the ps3 and keeping it alive.

I dont own a ps3 but i watched the whole thing through. really interesting

One day Super Slim/late Slim owners will thrive, once a CFW becomes available these models will surely become more popular and this project may be one of the reasons.

Love the production quality, punching way above your current view count

Glad to see a video🙏 we’ve been in the forum convo for weeks now. My PS3 did 900/950. I won the lottery.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but thank you for the subtitles!

Overclocking in general has always been about courage

2:30 one note: more power IS used by the chip, even if the voltage remains the same. This is because power is consumed by binary logic mostly during transients (switching state) and this happens proportionally to the number of cycles. If you're interested in more details, look up power characteristics of simple logic gates: they work in pretty much the same way! What constant voltage guarantees is that, at every given cycle, no more current than stock can flow, but increase the number of transients and energy used (not instantaneous power!) DOES absolutely go up linearly, and heat with them ;)

This video is clear, concise and we'll produced. I appreciate that a lot. Subbed

i remember seeing a different cfw let you slightly oc the ps3 before this project, so this is interesting to see

Little correction to overclocking power and heat generation. Even if you don't adjust voltage, power and heat goes up, because simply chip is doing more work than before. More work chip does, more power it takes, more heat it produces, so overclock without voltage bump, still increase power and heat, but not nearly as much as with voltage bump. As mentione in video, heat goes up with overclock, that's because power does too, it's not free performance.

2:20 Even if the voltage is the same, higher frequency increases the current load meaning that it DOES use more power.

Really interesting video, shame I can't use it on my HEN only slim, but it's exciting to see what people can get out of the hardware all these years later!

Por fin un video que habla detalladamente sobre esto y con una comparación exquisita, y no tonterías como los de habla hispana. Gracias viejo por tomarte el tiempo de enseñarnos estas cosas. Nuevo sub

Stellar video quality man! Great video!

nice video bro!! I can't do it since my cech is 30xx but I watched the whole video as it was super interesting and you made those 20 mim feel like 5. keep it up! new sub:)

Great video! You deserve way more subs!

Very nice video, everything explained clearly. Its a shame your early Slim can't do 700 stable, most seem able to. My early Slim is currently stable at 700/900, so perhaps you could try increasing the memory a bit, it does make quite a difference.

You should try the PS3 Gran Turismo titles with 1080p enabled, as they're known for pushing the PS3 hard

One important thing about the pads: They have a fairly high thermal conductivity, but the important part about paste is, that excess paste gets pushed to the sides, so it basically only fills small gaps between the cold plate of the heat spreader and the IHS of the RSX where otherwise would be a air. Direct contact between the cold plate and the IHS would be way better for cooling, so you actually made it worse with the pads.

Too bad I'm out of the loop since I have two Superslim consoles, this looks very cool, thanks for this video.

I love this video! More please 😊

CECHL FAT console with 1TB SSD CFW 4.90 RSX Overclocked 600/750 I used twice cheaper and apparently twice as efficient liquid metal from China called LT-100. I've had over 30 hours of testing. The highest temperature I have recorded while playing every Crysis game. Speed fan always set to 28% (very quiet) RSX - 69 degrees Celsius for a short while, then drop to a practically permanent 68 degrees Celsius. Cell - the highest I recorded when emulating PS2 games was 60 degrees Celsius. In over 30 hours of testing, I never once saw 70 degrees Celsius on the RSX (only 28% fan speed). Testing time is approximately an hour of playing each of the tested games. Below are some of the results I recorded. MGS4 Cell - 59 RSX 62 Uncharted2 Cell - 57 RSX 62 MGS2HD Cell - 54 RSX 53 Killzone 2 Cell - 57 RSX 62 UT 3 Cell - 55 RSX 58 Bioshock Cell - 55 RSX 62 Dark Souls II Cell - 58 RSX 67 unlock framerate God of War Cell - 58 RSX 64 unlock framerate Battlefield 3 Cell - 55 RSX 58 Far Cry 3 Cell - 57 RSX 63 Skate 2 Cell - 57 RSX 60 unlock framerate RDR Cell - 60 RSX 65 Crysis Cell - 60 RSX 69 Crysis 2 Cell - 59 RSX 69

So far the 600/750 OC hasn't let me down, MGS5 GZ and TPP actually performs better than X360 version. GT6 has major improvements. I think a lot of that comes from memory OC, the PS3 actually does a lot of swapping for the Cell CPU.

A friend of mine had the game Pain on his PS3 and we loved playing it. Happy to see it all these years later in this video.

Very cool vid. Curious thing is that i was using ptm pads on my ps3 as well and couldn't find anyone on the internet doing so as well. So good to know it was actually a good idea lol

Really nice video :)

Great Video Dude

Very interesting video bro. Unfortunately I have a 90nm CHECH A00, so there's no chance I'm gonna be able to test this as well. But its cool that slim owners get some benefits too. I wonder if a CELL overclock is also possible. Maybe we'll finally get that PS3 Pro someday.

Maybe someone would do it on their 40nm frankenstein PS3 BC? The cooling and power requirement would surely be less of a problem, maybe one with a great quality RSX can hit 1GHz in core speed.

Quality info, glad people are breathing new life into this console. Sadly I have to live with my beloved but ultimately doomed BC Fat 😢 Maybe I’ll keep an eye out for a thrift store Slim now…

If I overclocked my PS3 Fat it would evaporate.

Nice one bro, i`m waiting a few more months to do this. hope a nice wiki will evolve from this. and nice Thermal tip.

I am running the 700MHz one on my 80GB PS3 Fat and everything is perfect so far but the console has been refurbished recently, MX4 thermal paste by Arctic, new pads as well

I've been running the overclocked firmware sincer release a couple of years ago, and the best thing about it is that it gives that extra 10-15% fps boost that PS3 games mostly seem to be missing. Such as GT5 running at around 55fps now hitting 59.99fps. It's as if the devs all had dev kit targets that never got adjusted down correctly for the retail kits. And this overclock bridges the gap and makes the games feel like they should be running how the devs intended. Some games however are still aweful, such as Lair, and the Splinter cell trilogy. I don't think any overclock could fix those games fps'.

I LOVE PAIN!!! And the ps3 is one of my favorite consoles I’m def gonna try this if I get one ❤

that's great when i went to buy my PS3s i specially wanted the last CFW capable models they end up all been 25xx got 3 of these left

i have a cech 2000a similar to yours and mine already reaches 70c with fan speed going to 80 without oc i do need to mention that mine was recently fixed by a local shop after the cpu went bad (according to the shop) and it wouldn't ever boot up as if the power was cut so I don't know if i should go with this or not but there are definitely some demanding games i wanna test this with

I've had evilnat 4.90 600/750 OC on my FAT 80GB DIA-002 (Cell-65nm/RSX-65nm) for some 2ish months now. it been great, rock solid stability and little to no temp increase. note thought my ps3 only has 3,000 hours of power on time (buddy's slim with HEN had over 12k hrs), fresh thermal paste, and the fan curve turned up which may help with how stable it's been. I did a play through of Nier, and Killzone 2 and 3 with no issue or artifacts and 18-20% better fps performance. drops to 25fps now hold 30fps and drops into the teens now hold above 20fps. Will be doing goldHEN on my PS4 Pro next.

This is past my time at PSX-Place its kinda crazy they are still at it 4 years later

Nice! Homebrew for the PS3 is still strong and healthly💪👍 No surprise there it’s a last unique HW architecture PS console Sony has released till this date.

Currently running a 650/850 OC on my 2001 slim, this thing is nuts

you can do thermal pads to the heatspeaders and pads for southbridge and northbridge and PPU chips yes make a thermal pad that touches the metal box the ps3 uses thermal paste for chips itself and based on gpu size then oc will be higher

could u do a video teaching us how to use mfw builder.. i used it once and bricked my ps3

I played through Persona 5 with this overclock. And it had way less screen tearing due to framerate sticking closer to 30 fps.

Please, what theme were you using on your XMB?

can u test raw Sykrim without patches to see how oc would impact to the framerate?

I wonder how far you could take a PS3 using water cooling. It would be a neat project, taking apart a PS3, putting it a little ITX case, maybe even finding a way to keep the blu-ray drive and using some water blocks and a 120 or 240mm radiator.

my ps3 FAT one (2usb) got the red button of death and im too hesistant to apply thermal paste by taking them off knowing that the repair shops will charge a LOT

It would be interesting to see how much performance could be gained from overlocking the cell processes if it can be overclocked at all. Given how the SPE’s are responsible for a lot of the heavy lifting, especially in games with lots of physics.

The pads might not need to be replaced, but the thermal paste under the lid definitely needs to be at some point.

i dont know but this video is good

Awesome video, I would love to see more improvements that the gaming community is doing with "retro" consoles. Hate to call the PS3 retro, I'm not that old.😢

Would this firmware have any effect on RPCS3?

Good video, I have to fix my CECH-2004 once day, the tokins are dead

I can imagine once we are able to fully jailbreak the Super Slim with the 28nm then we can essentially make our own PS3 Pro, I have one in my drawer ready for that day 😎

I have the 25xx that u talked about.. Should i give it a try

Love it! Is anyone working on a way to have every title remote play enabled (without having to do it manually one param file at a time) and finding a way to give the stream more cpu so it isn’t terrible?

Hi, I have used rsx Boost 600 750 for more than two months on my 2500 and I can confirm that the heating problems are due to your rsx 65nm In most games, both CPU and GPU are kept below 65°C with fan at around 40%.

You earned a sub, this video is Super informative. Have you tried out Sonic Unleashed?

2:20 is it me or same voltaje and higher clocks = higher power consumption and not the same power as the video says. Hence the higher temperatures

crazy question but, would this work for a ps3 emulator?

COD BO3 was the game that really struggled to run on PS3 right at the title screen , framerates dips straight to 9 in some cases , it would be interesting to see how it runs with OC

Is thermal pads better than mx-6? The pads are more expensive and not available to buy in my country, only importing. Do you think worth buying these anyway? What size should be good?

25** поздние - только nen (после 1D), как 30**. Про тепрмопрокладки на VRM можно не забывать. Смысла большого нет менять сверху теплораспределителя, термопасту на лучшие.

getting an extra fan

Sonic Unleashed could use more FPS and this could actually help running it better 👀 wonder if someone tried it out after overclocking

instructions unclear... My PS3 now cooks toasted bread

If you are someone who doesn't maintain thermal paste and clean your system, this is NOT for you 😂 Edit: Nevermind. He covered it in the vid

Awesome! Can you test on more games please? Thank you!

Interesting, i will try this out on my slim.

Discalimer vs Excalibur, which is better?

I have always heard that thermal pads are inferior to thermal paste because they do not fill the air gaps as they are a solid slab. Could you elaborate on what you mean when you talk about them being better a litte?

I could think of 1 possible other way to repair a bricked console. I am overclocking a lot myself and have some experience. Basically a unstable overclock could become stable if you manage to reduce the chips temperature. You could then reflash the old software and put the console back together. This obviously would require to modify the thermal solution of the console but I think that shouldn't be too hard for an average person. I don't know how the thermal solution of the PS3 is set up and if it would run with for example the cover removed but removing of the cover alone could drastically improve temperature. If that isn't enough you could try to take a stronger fan (connected to some power source like a desktop PC) put it at 100% and press it against the PS3 finstack. The PS3 seems to have very bad idle temperature of 60° improving it shouldn't be hard. Another method could be to press a normal desktop CPU cooler on the GPU. Since it only needs to last for around 5min that should be manageable. I hope i can help someone who bricked their PS3

i love it

How is the GTA 4 run? The bikers DLC had serious problems on my slim PS3, drops under 20 fps

How high could my 2501a go? I have the 600 - 750 installed yesterday running great

Was hoping you'd test Gran Turismo 6 as well. Very noticeable framerate drops for certain cars and tracks, especially with night and rain. Even worse in 1080p.

So does thermal pads make a difference over paste? In terms of cooling. I ask because recently replaced my paste 🥴

Do you think you could upgrade the ram chips in the PS3? it only has 256mb of ram which is split between the gpu and cpu so.

bro correct me if im wrong but u didnt peel the tpm7950 wich means that it still has plastic on it

I hope CFW releases on those newer consoles

My dream ps3 is Frankensteining a super slim rsx into a phat model and overclocking it, hopefully that’s one day possible

Katamari Forever! Ha, that was a fun surprise, but then Pain!? You've broken into my Super Slim.

What if you install better cooling?

MOAR SPEEED !

Please tell me you took the protective film off those pads… it looked like it was still on.

please tell me the name of your theme on xmb ps3

Can you please make a video about how to enable the FPS counter on latest CFW, thanks !

I would have done this test with fan set to a fixed value, I'll try it

I would not use those thermal pads on anything, that’s probably why your fan was getting loud try actual thermal paste and your temps and fan noise should improve

I want a way to get the CPU up to 3.5ghz

do i only hear that he sound like sacramento?

0.100mv increase would perform wonders. Those chips are heavily downtuned to fit power scope.

@sync-on-luma (Y) High quality and informative vid. Please make more!

I still use my PS3 to watch Netflix and RU-vid on a dumb TV. Actually received a system software update a few weeks ago.

I'd love to see a RAM upgrade mod, that allows for better textures in games, I'm pretty sure the PS3 could excel in this.

Interesting experiment. I still have the ps3 slim I have played so many great games. I have a soft spot for it and have been occasionally buying games I didn't play back then. I would not risk it for this. Old chips do wear out slowly but surely when overclocked. Too bad you cannot do that superslim. I would get one and OC the heck out of it.