Get another glimpse inside the PlayStation 5 with iFixit’s new teardown

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iFixit has released its teardown of the PlayStation 5 as well as its DualSense inspector -- as well as it goes into orderly supplemental detail than the one Sony did older this year. The gadget repair hair-comb evidenced that the encourage has a ton of screws holding it together, as well as that there's a awe-inspiring buckle to replacing the optical drive.

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The hair-comb likewise revealed a always-fun X-ray of the PS5

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It turns out that the optical bulldoze is software-locked to the motherboard. The physical swop is believably a piece of cake, but any replacement you put in won't sidetrack disks, so if your optical bulldoze fails you'll be sending it to Sony. It's a bummer, extraordinarily for me: I've had terrible luck with PlayStation optical drives, as well as the personalized bulldoze I haven't had to replace is the one on my PS4 (which was personalized a few years old when I sold it).

No diaphoresis for the owners of the discless Digital edition, whereas -- as well as as we've seen previously, totaliser an actress SSD is hoopla to be easy when the encourage finally supports it: it personalized involves unclipping a single ancillary panel as well as taking out a screw.

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The teardown likewise provides an inside squinch at the powerfulness totality (above), which Sony didn't show us before. As someone who's dabbled in PC gaming, it's forever shocking to me when I'm reminded of the PS5 personalized has a 350W powerfulness totality (and it uses as few as 200 of those watts under load!)

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To me, the inside of the inspector looks nicer than Cyberpunk does on the console.

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Turning to the DualSense controller, iFixit matriculate its bombardment is relatively easy to replace -- which is good-tasting considering it still uses an centralized Li-ion that'll demean over time. It's likewise massive at 5.7 watt-hours, compared to the 3.7Wh pack in the DualShock 4. Those adaptive triggers as well as haptic feedback motors stive be thirsty. We likewise get another look at the spookish circling bulldoze that powers those adaptive triggers.

What I don't see is an easy way to unhook the LEDs that surround the DualSense's touchpad. This may be a niche thing, but I categorically hated the light on the DualShock 4, as well as while the new one isn't as annoying, I still wish Sony would let you turn it off or let screwdriver-handy gamers unhook it after so numerous fuss.

You can leading over to iFixit's teardown page to see far supplemental photos. As well as if you appetite a finger for what taking autonomously the equipment might be like (without risking what's now effectively a $1,000 console), the hair-comb has provided videos of the teardowns that you can watch below.

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