Sony has completely overhauled the internal design of its latest PS5 models. A revised Playstation 5 model started showing up in Australia last month, and now the Austin Evans YouTuber took a look at the internals and discovered many changes. Sony is using a new and smaller motherboard for the Playstation 5, different cooling and even changed the SSD enclosure.
Yeah, all these refurbishments add up to another weight reduction, but no obvious changes to the exterior of the car. Playstation 5🇧🇷 The real big change is the updated motherboard in the Playstation 5. It's shrunk by about two inches, and the PS5's cooling is a bit different thanks to an additional heatpipe on the back and a smaller heatsink.
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Sony has also changed many components with this new motherboard design, and this means that the CMOS battery is now completely hidden under the heatsink. It's been exposed before, making it easy to swap out, but Evans claims you'll now have to completely disassemble a PS5 to replace the CMOS battery. All of these changes could add some real-world benefits to the PS5. Evans claims that this new PS5 model consumes around 20 to 30 watts less when gaming, while still offering the same amount of noise and heat output.
Side effects of this change
According to the YouTuber, “Sony has shrunk almost everything, including the motherboard and internal packaging to make it lighter and almost certainly cheaper (for them)🇧🇷 The new PS5 model arrives just as Sony has raised PS5 prices outside the US. Sony is raising its PS5 prices in the UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico and Canada. Prices are rising 10% in Europe, 21% in Japan and around 6% in the UK.
