Topic: Dust.

I have been watching a few videos on how to clean the dust from the fan and vents some go a lot further and dismantle most of it to get to the vents, could i ask if dust is a major problem causing overheating or is it just an old wives tale?

How often do you clean the internals and how deep do you go?

What do you use?

@Max_Headroom so I hadn’t really thought about it until all the reports of Final Fantasy XVI bricking PS5’s… so when I was about to start the game I watched a few vids the night before on how to clean the PS5, thinking that I’d get it all ship-shape before splaying FFXVI the following day.

After watching the vids though, I in no way fancied taking my PS5 apart to the extent of just a rudimentary clean (fan removal etc.) so I just chanced playing FFXVI without cleaning the console and touch wood all is well.

This seems a good guide he doesn't remove the fan and says do not use the cans of air just a vac with a nozzle and a paint brush.

All I do is remove the covers and get rid of the dust without taking the fan out. It is super easy. The trickiest part I found was putting the covers back on, but even was hardly a ball ache.

Thanks, how often do you do this?

@Max_Headroom About once a year. Both times I've done it there has been minimal dust to clear.

Thank, that is good news.

To be honest I just use a can of compressed air to clean my systems and they work fine. No need really to tear apart the system. I guess if you want you could get something to put over your console like a dust cover when it's not in use as well.

Thanks.

@colonelkilgore How long do you have your PS5?

@sd7232 I was lucky enough to have got my pre-order made in time, so got mine on launch day… so 3 years. How about you?

I was not able to score one until April last year.

My unit still works fine, but I always worry about dust build up inside.

Don’t have skill to take apart to clean myself, so may take in for a cleaning service….or maybe even trade in and ‘upgrade’ to slim model which may net cost around same as a cleaning.

Have you taken the covers off in that time to check for dust build up?

I probably wont remove the fan if the guy in the video doesn't think its necessary it'll do for me

@Max_Headroom I only removed cover last year to add SSD. Will get to it now that got me thinking about at least going that far. Thanks.

(Off-topic….Are you aware of the “Max Headroom broadcast incident” that happened in 1987? Worth checking out the video for a little chuckle.)

@Max_Headroom nah… I’m a bit heavy handed and after watching a few videos on even a rudimentary clean, I thought I would be better off (or my PS5 would be better off) with me not messing about with it.

I never cleaned my PS4 (nor my PS3 for that matter) and their both still kicking, so I’ll carry on with that philosophy until **** hits the fan as it were 😅

@colonelkilgore I hope that is not the case!

I do think people worry too much about stuff like this. You see some of these photos of a PS5 covered in dust, but that is a worse case scenario and not every console is going to get like that. There is certainly no harm in taking off the covers and having a check, as that is super easy to do.

But dismantling it and taking the fan out, or replacing the console just because just something could be wrong, is madness in my eyes.

Let us know how much dust you find it'll be interesting to see how much it accumulates in 12 months.

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Off Topic -

As for the Max Headroom vid no i hadn't seen that i think i may have been scared of that version when i was a nipper

I was a big Art of Noise fan back in the day thats when i first saw Max.