you want one Ultra-thin PlayStation 5? How about one that’s thin enough to slip easily into a backpacking laptop sleeve? One DIY enthusiast managed to do just that with his base PS5, once again leaving Sony behind in the burgeoning market for ultra-mobile handheld consoles.
YouTuber Matthew Perks from the DIY Perks channel latest video shows how he managed to shrink your average PlayStation 5 console to an incredible degree while still remaining just as cool as the console itself, with massive heatsinks, fans, and cases (and void his warranty In progress).
What’s incredible about this build is Perks’ ability to translate all of the PS5’s essential components into such a thin form factor. It uses the console’s actual motherboard and ignores the power supply, which is pretty much everything the console needs to function as a PS5 once it’s connected to a monitor.Although the appearance has not changed, it is still the same as before There are significant changes happening inside the PlayStation 5 over its nearly four-year lifespan. On top of that, motherboards have shrunk over time, and the console’s heatsinks have been redesigned, adding more heat pipes and removing shielding.
Perks had to rebuild the heatsink and fan design from scratch, but once he did, he claimed in testing that the CPU only reached around 42 degrees Celsius (although it’s probably hotter internally). That’s with the fans running at full speed, so the console can easily reach its normal 55 to 60 degrees Celsius (typically under full load) without flooding that area with fan noise.
It’s also a beast. Instead of an LCD panel, Perks uses a 14-inch 4K OLED display that was plucked from a beat-up Alienware laptop, and there are two 5-watt drivers on the tiny subwoofer to feed the audio from two Sound comes from the stereo side speakers.
Now, the elephant in the room is obviously the battery. On average, a regular PS5 draws about 200W at full load, so Perks rolled out a 250W power brick and his own custom wiring to do the job. This way, the device still needs to have a full wired connection at all times, although he only needs to be set up near an outlet to enjoy the full functionality of the PlayStation.
The resulting device from Perks looks like anything on the market, yet is less than 50 percent the size of the newer, slimmer PlayStation, all with a high-end built-in screen.
Of course, this is not exactly what one would expect Today’s handheld game consoles, they are much smaller and have far fewer features than the full PlayStation 5. However, Sony’s last foray into portable gaming was the $200 PlayStation Portal, a streaming-only device that –Not bad for what it is though— hardly what gamers have come to expect from today’s portable paradigm. Perk’s product is much bigger than yours. average steam deckthough he did show that his design is better suited to a multiplayer experience than the usual small 7-inch screen.
Sony has long been plagued by the PlayStation Vita, its last real attempt at a handheld experience.Remote gaming doesn’t have nearly the same appeal as traditional gaming A dedicated console that can play PS games offline and anytime, anywhere. We know Sony can make such a device, but we doubt we’ll have one, at least not anytime soon.
