look at this you guys the PlayStation 5 Slim I can't believe it and oh my
goodness we've already completely taken it apart because of course we have since
its Inception the PS5 has been a real big boy and I'm sure loads of you are
excited to be able to put the console in your media cabinet instead of beside it
but these days you can't trust a company to just improve the new one there's
always a catch just like dbrand
miraculously catched this PS5 slim for
us as it fell out of thin air seriously they won't even tell us how they got it
but they did well before they're supposed to hit stor sh on November the
10th I hope no robots were hurt in the process you can check out their dark
plates down below if you want to make your PlayStation 5 regardless of whether
it's the old kind or the slim kind look better and with that out of the way
let's get right into it all the way in the ridge simplify your life with the
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remember the last time we did a straightup unboxing on this channel but
this is it the PlayStation 5 Slim with everything you liked and probably pretty
much everything you didn't like about the original PlayStation 5 let's go
ahead and get it cracked open look it's been a while okay oh jeez okay and the
the top we've got a non-revised exactly the same dual sense controller that
we've come to know love with the great haptic feedback we've come to know love
the touchpad on the top and of course their adaptive triggers which can have
their resistance adjusted depending on how the game developer intends if you're
pulling back a bow or whatever else it feels a little bit more immersive Alex
and I compared this to a cheap racing wheel recently and found that um it wins
it wins it's a really good controller HDMI cable oh that's an inter like are
they going for like an eco-friendly Vibe here the non dyed twist ties Modern
Warfare 3 code oh no it's just an
operator pack remember when things used to come with actual games that was cool
well here I don't care about any of this so you can have my pin whoever watches
first there you go what am I looking at
here uhuh this must be something to do
with dbrand I will figure it out later
quick guide shout out Sony again for having such a userfriendly means of
expanding the storage on this console there have been lots of consoles that
have offered the ability to expand your storage or replace the stock storage but
to make it this user friendly and have it right in the quick guide how to put a
commodity offthe shelf SSD into your console no it's never been done and it
makes Microsoft look like money grubbers this generation around oh it's glossy oh
it's partially glossy it's only glossy on the top it's like they thought you
know what everyone really liked about the the original PlayStation 5 was the
popped collar look how about a shiny popped collar it's a lot smaller though
you know what looking at those leaked pictures online it felt like it wasn't
really that much smaller but it's way smaller here let's get this stuff out of
the way so we can really get a nice size comparison here it's got about the same
width and that makes sense because you're going to need to fit all of the
internals plus cooling Plus have room for air to get into the looks like
intakes which oh are actually a little
less obstructed this time around I wonder if uh Sony took some hints from
our provider of the PS5 slim hey what an
idea maybe oh actually speaking of which here it is the original PS5 with
dbrand dark plates 2.0 there is a little bit of a fisheye effect to our top down
so to make sure you guys are getting the cleanest possible look at these I'm
going to remove the third one for now so we'll go PS5 dark plates PS5 all it does
is kind of get rid of the popped collar and offer a little bit more airflow PS5
versus PS5 slim it's kind of a reasonable size the only argument
against this that I can think of is well I already reconfigured my whole stupid
Media Console to fit the original one anyway what do I need the slim one for
now thank you very much Sony but as someone who doesn't have a PS5 yet this
is an extremely welcome change oh and they've made some improvements to
the io as well gone is the front USB
type A to be replaced with another USB type-c this actually makes a lot of
sense because the psvr2 is out now and
uses one of those front type-c connectors so obviously if you want to
use a type-c dock or something like that or a type-c hub at the front you're not
really able to do that anymore if you've got the psvr2 connected other oh where's
the eject oh that makes sense that makes
sense because all PS5 slims are the same
except for whether they have the add-on disc module or not so the eject button
wouldn't be on the front of the console itself it would be right on the optical
drive right here fascinating I consider
this a big win because as someone who doesn't use a PlayStation very often or
even just at kids and stuff right it's really confusing having your power
button and your eject button right next to each other I it's not the same as it
was on older consoles where if you hit the power button by accident it's like oh no where's everything like it'll go
to sleep it's okay but it's just annoying have they changed anything else
about the io I mean they changed uh it's not really IO but there's no stand
included anymore that's got people kind of upset you can pull out this little
butt plug here though and you can put a stand on if you want to pay what was it like $30 or $40 though 30
bucks that's pretty rough and then at the back I actually like the new style
of the vent I think that looks really clean power in HDMI 2.1 overall this is
looking like a really nice little upgrade sure you don't get a stand but
also I don't know doesn't really need one it's not so topheavy anymore and
they haven't ripped away any core functionality like we saw with previous
PlayStations where it's like oh you got the launch one you get backwards
compatibility not anymore with that said it's not like the upgrade is completely
cut and dried you see it's reduced in volume by more than 30% especially if
you compare it to the uh not dark plated one this is a little less impressive cuz
it doesn't have the and it's been reduced in weight by 18 and
24% how can it be reduced in weight by
two different percentages ah so you might not realize that this is the
second time that Sony has revised the PS5 at launch it used tsmc's 7 nanometer
node but Sony quietly revised it to use their 6 nanm node apparently for higher
yields remember how at first these things were basically an OB tanium it
also apparently helped with The Thermals remember when these things ran super hot
at first that's why they don't anymore
and that's why the PS5 slim is 18 to 24%
lighter because the 6 NM version used a smaller cooler and thus was lighter than
the original 7 NM one now what node the
PS5 slim is on we're not entirely sure but we've seen leak saying that it's 6
NM 5 n and 4 n
so I guess we'll need to measure the die and then maybe take an educated guess at
it now since we have the slim before we're supposed to connecting it to the
internet for the first time was a little bit scary fortunately the phone home
wasn't a problem which is good because this thing is literally useless without
Sony's servers giving it a sniff for instance one of the cool new
things about the PS5 slim even if it's a bit controversial because of the pricing
is that the digital version can be upgraded later to add the disc reader so
let's just go ahead and show how that works there's the cover plate and oh
okay it's three screws just pull on it
oh you don't even need well I don't know you just oh wow wow that's kind of great
actually super painless well other than
the fact that in order for this thing to work you have to register the unit
online and bind it to your PlayStation 5
though we were informed by a viewer after wow that apparently this is not
something that Sony does by choice for
now I guess I'll just oh not put this back on because uh we're about to start
our tear down uh what do I need I fix a kit because the truth is the LTD
screwdriver is not great for everything which is one of the reasons that I need
the LTD backpack so that I can also carry around and I Fixit kit by the way
the units shipping now have regular zipper pulls until we get you guys a
carabiner one later so you don't have to worry about any fragility in the
carabiners LTT Store.com why don't we start by trying to remove the rest of
the pan uh okay I'm not yet whoop well
I'm having fun man without the plates on it this is almost a downright reasonable
size eh look at that in case you were
curious I certainly was this is the connector they're using for the optical
drive based on the pin count I couldn't even begin to guess what it is it's
certainly not USB orada maybe it's even
pciu but why for an optical drive
unless you could possibly use it for other things in the future that'd be
super cool one thing I can tell you you won't need that for is a storage upgrade
it is just as easy to replace your drive in the PS5 slim and they've even
maintained compatibility for up to 110 mm M do2s even though those are quite
rare love to see it speaking of storage yet another upgrade that I haven't even
mentioned yet is that the all digital version went from 825 gigs to 1 tbte I
guess that's what super cheap nand FL
will do for you let's get this fan pulled out
here as interesting as it looks though what we really want to know is how loud
it is to find out we threw this thing at the Labs before we took it apart to get
some measurements here's our audio testing setup now we don't yet have an
anaco chamber but we do have an EMC chamber which is not an aoic but is at
least really quiet in here somewhere in the 20 DB range we don't actually know
cuz the noise flooor in here is lower than what our microphone can pick up
that said though we just simply take our PS5 have it here Spider-Man's jumping up
and down so we're always getting those new frames and then we just give it a
little spin do that a bunch of times to find out where it's the loudest and
we're good to go and now we have to leave so we don't screw up Dane's testing everybody
quiet seriously all four of the screws
for this fan are different you have got
to be kidding me Sony three different lengths two of which go into metal two
of which go into plastic unbelievable
okay no I'm over it I'm I'm over it because the results are good looking at
the results the original PlayStation 5 does a great job of making sure that all
the noise is directed toward the back of the unit rather than toward the user and
that continues here but that doesn't mean there weren't some differences both
were so quiet at idle and in the menu that they were below the noise floor of
our EMC chamber which makes sense since the fans were barely spinning if at all
and in games neither of them exceeded 35 DB but the characteristics of that sound
were slightly different with the original PS5 having kind of an even
emission of sound toward the back of the unit and the slim being ever so slightly
quieter overall but louder on the side
of the optical drive so if for whatever reason you keep your PlayStation five
kind of behind you and to this side no
this side there we go you may prefer the OG rather than the slim whichever one
you decide you like we're going to have links to them down below now things are
about to get really tricky because we discovered that this whole thing with the screws being all different is a bit
of a theme here so I need the motherboard out and in my hands
basically that's your oh hold on there's one screw I missed the warranty void if
remove screw oh look at that there's a little oh it's cute there there's a little PlayStation uh thing on
it hey there it is
though first look at the inside of the
PS5 slim o it's shiny huh that is not as
big oh there it is like wow that's a
really small heat stick my goodness uh
no that's just cooling whatever this is attached to and the bulk of the heat ah
yes there it is it's not only on this side here but also internally here there
we go yep that makes way more sense time
to take out some more screws this is a funky little ribbon
connector first thing we got to do is
pop this out
yeah okay so that's the lock y then we
grab this and oh oh hello hello little
buddy what do you do oh wow the whole
that's it hold on a second no no we got our
Wi-Fi antennas let's get those removed jeez I can't believe how easily this
thing comes apart other than using all doofy different screws this is not bad
to the chest oh no we're not wow look at
that oh who who careful don't want to bend that heat
pipe oh huh there's your front IO
daughter board okay so that's all that does is your power button and then well
okay two high-speed USB-C's yeah you'd obviously want some good high integrity
signaling there let's have a look at the power supply wa oh oh cool oh this is
hilarious Labs has a Noe in the script about how they were able to get that
warranty void if remove sticker off without tripping the thing I was
wondering why it was still all black well good job with the heat gun you guys
I uh definitely ruined it now let's talk
about the power supply for what I think are pretty obvious reasons I'm not going
to be opening this up but we do have some stuff to say about it first and
foremost being that it is rated for exactly the same amount of power as the
old one 12 volts 31 amps so 372 Watts we
did some testing though and the results surprised us the PS5 slim was identical
to the old one we were expecting it to be different in some way so at idle we
were looking at about four Watts on the home screen roughly 50 watts and in game
about 225 Watts one really weird thing
we noticed though is that if you go back to the home screen without closing your
game you're still seeing power power draw around 160 wat which is way more
than the 50 we were seeing before this means the game is far less suspended
than we would have expected so definitely make sure to properly close your games when you're done or you could
see it on your power bill now given that the PS5 and the PS5 slim are within
margin of error in terms of power consumption maybe this is not a new node
in fact and just a redesigned PCB which
is a bit disappointing because we were hoping for a more efficient console
there is a way for us to know for sure is though oh boy my notes say this is as
far as we went so we're in Uncharted
Territory now do I really have to take out all these screws uh I'm just going
to get a power tool yall ready for
this hopefully these are all the same cuz I'm not keeping track so far they
are yeah
I don't know why there are so many screws but I get the feeling that once
we've got them all off we're going to have some idea why I wonder is it also screwed in from
the other side that would be
hilarious this is like this isn't riveted is it see the problem right yeah
oh here we go here we go no no I got yeah yeah get the yeah there you go go
for it who okay don't bend it do we have any more oh hey there we
go oh oh my well okay
look wow that is not a lot of thermal
compound they've just got little dots on each of the D packages and the Nan
packages too actually we're looking at 16 gigs of gddr6 from Micron here here's
our Nan packages for probably half of
our 1 TB of storage and then here's our
chipset as well as a dam cache presumably for the SSD here it's funny
how soon as they switch to the internals all the screws use the same head and are
the same length what a weird oops that's fine that was
fine okay was this on wrong is this supposed to go in the same direction as
the other thing probably not probably fine I'm sure Sony knows how to put
these together I mean I could give them some
pointers oh that sound though uh watch
there is liquid metal in there there's liquid metal in there yeah oh balls that
makes sense oh I found another screw there's your problem there's your
problem right there
W liquid metal liquid metal shim to
ensure that it doesn't leak and get all over your PCB and you can see it is not
that easy to contain it's all pulled up on this side over here which is pretty
wild there indeed are the other two nand
packages wow that's a freaking ton of liquid metal look at that glob on there
you see that wow what the heck five heat pipes and
you can see they're making use of actually a lot of the space around that
fan to pull in air from the side and blow it through Moment of Truth where's
the caliper oh here they are what's the size of the 6 n full-sized 260 mm s okay
okay we are
2.95 by 12.03
260 okay it's the same die then which
meaning that it having the exact same power measurements makes a ton of sense
because functionally this is the same PlayStation 5 refresh but in a much
smaller and I mean I see a lot of people kind of saying they don't like the look
um in my opinion better looking chassie
I'm kind of shocked actually historically every other PlayStation
slim model came with a node shrink and a
power Improvement PS2 for example went from 200 NM all the way down to 90
PS3 went from 90 to 45 and PS4 went from
28 nm to 16 NM looks like with this we
get nothing other than everything we talked about already which again I see a
lot of people kind of hating on it but bit more storage no louder it's smaller
extra USBC I Like It crap I'm going to take so
much hate please Fanboys leave me alone
dbrand is already hard at work on their dark plates 4.0 which are designed to
make the covers for your PS5 slim less
tacky I forgot about the glossiness actually when I was saying I like I like
everything else about it other than other than that uh presumably they'll
have a bunch of colors and probably you know a better air intake and all that
good stuff that we've come to expect from dbrands dark plates but they're not
out yet so you guys are presumably going to be sent to a page that prompts you to
sign up for a notification once they're available thanks to dbrand for getting
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