After sitting back and really enjoying thrashing out the Ps3 for what it is a game console�, we came to the conclusion that there really is more to this box than just playing games. It was time to really test the capabilities and enjoyment of watching blue ray movies.


Sony has undeniably promoted the system as the next generation console system that has definitely lived up to expectations and durability as per our recent article “ How to kill a ps3 console . This led to one of the most read articles on the net our site has currently had the article read over 70,000 times with David Karakker even commenting on this article on Ps3 Stress Test

Basically the test run this time was to see if we were only to use the console in normal operating conditions how long could we actually view blue ray movies without any interruption to viewing or console use.

The unit was setup in a normal family room operating environment with suitable ventilation and plenty of popcorn. Also this was to actually see if their was enough worthwhile blue-ray titles available for viewing over an extended time that would keep our interest

A Range of movies were viewed continuously over the next 7 days 168 hours of non stop mind bending entertainment. Results are listed below for temperature settings for each 24hour period

It must be stated at the end of 4 days, we had a slight outage of 30minutes that we thought was the Ps3 Crashing but in fact we traced this back to the Plasma Screen shutting itself off automatically. After resetting the plasma back to factory defaults everything was fine.

24Hrs 48Hrs 72Hrs 96Hrs 120Hrs 144Hrs 164Hrs
79.9f 87F 102F 92F 110F 106F 119F

After Six days of continuous movies we witnessed the slow degradation of quality of signal for the last 6 hours of movies and then the system crashed. Was it really possibly after the torture of the last tests on how to kill a ps3 console� that we had succeeded, keeping in mind that this was the same console. The console was completely dead. After further investigation we discovered the reason the console had failed was due to the internal thermal gauge� we had placed through the tray, the solenoid had melted itself to the console board and caused the killing of a PS3 console.