cheap, flat metal?

[Spawn-Inc]

since i've joined this forum i've started to worry about things over heating and my slim ps2 gets pretty hot when i leave it on for a couple of hours. i ripped it apart intending to change over the thermal paste to AS5 but found two thick (looked to be 0.5 - 1mm but) thermal pads. i tried removing one and putting it back gether with a small spot of AS5 to see if it would even touch, it didn't.

1. so i was wondering if its possible to pickup thin copper squares of metal cheap or where to go. i'm guessing a local hardware store?

2. i've seen stores sell rolls of metal before would that work?

3. how good does brass transfer heat?

4. should i just leave thing be?

thanks.

[calumc]

copper would probably be best and it might be easier to hammer out some pipe than trying to find sheet copper

[ollithemagicbum]

copper is better.

[Eclecticos]

Here is a Link (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showpost.php?p=120289&postcount=30) where you can buy copper sheets, and other metals.

[rendermandan]

have you tried to do a google search for CPU Shim. I found a few places that sell ones for pc cpu's, I'm sure you could adapt it for your ps2.

[Spawn-Inc]

have you tried to do a google search for CPU Shim. I found a few places that sell ones for pc cpu's, I'm sure you could adapt it for your ps2.

i tried looking for shims but they look like there only for de-heatspreadered cpu's so it won't work.

here is the mobo for it with the pads on it.

http://media.arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.media/ps2-slim-mobo.jpg

i will have to get a caliper from work and fin out the thickness of this pad and look into ordering it from http://www.onlinemetals.com/ anyone ordered from them, any good?

[Redundant]

I say put it back together, sell it, and buy one of the even smaller PS2s (http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/08/sony-lightens-ps2-components-by-almost-a-third/). It's amazing they're still in production.

Not sure how many people know about this, but they actually took out the Emotion Engine chip from the 80GB+ PS3s presumebly to keep costs down. (or because they decided to updated the PS2, once again.) The Emotion Engine is either the left or right chip that you're talking about in your PS2. They use software emulation instead. The 60GB version still has the EE chip inside it but they have stopped manufacturing PS3s with them.

[Spawn-Inc]

the board shown above and is a slim ps2 and the one i have. don't know why they would have a emotion engine chip in the ps2 and not ps3 though?