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Soooo, I am not sure if we have one here or not, I did a search and nothing came up, so I decided to make this thread....
Not sure how well it will go, but I thought maybe we can get everyone that considers themselves a 'nerd' to post why they believe that? Maybe some How-to's and such
There should be no bias here, you may post anything from you love playing Saxophone, Love technology to model building.
I will start, basically I am a Tech-Nerd, I love technology... I work in an Online PC store, I build and test computers whenever I can... I also love Aviation and aircraft, I have a model plane collection of around 120+ models, I also have model cars and yeah

So here we go, the first How-To video, How to install an SSD into a PS3:
Anyway, lately I have been
My PS3 Story:
Well, over the past three days my PS3 has been unusable.
I will begin my story, with the sudden and dramatic speed decrease in my Playstaion. Basically, to load the console, took ten minutes for the XMB to show on screen, and then it would take a minute or more for EVERY movement.
Then, GTAV wouldn't load, took ten minutes to get the starting siren sequence, and rockstar logo and then it went into an infinite 'Loading Story Mode'. All the while the HDD LED was 100% on.
And finally, the PSN would no longer connect, it connected to Internet fine but PSN failed. I jumped onto PlayStation Aus and sure enough a new update was available which fixed "stability issues" so downloaded that instantly....
My troubles really began now, the download got to 99% then took 40minutes to complete the last 1%. Then installation got to 99% before the console crashed and shut off... Upon restarting, the infinite 99% brick started.... (You CANNOT access the safe mode)
Fixed the issue with a workaround of installing my GFs spare laptop HDD and then swapping it out for the original HDD...
To my surprise, the PS3 was still as slow as ever and GTAV still didn't load.... So, I booted into safe mode and did all the non-destructive restores I could... All to no avail.
I decided to backup my and my GFs saves onto a spare External HDD I had. After waiting 5 hours for it to copy 6 measly GB, I formatted the HDD and started again.... Tried to load the backup and it took 40minutes per 1%.... I was sick of its s**t and pulled the plug.
Then it hit me, I had a spare 120GB SSD laying around upstairs so here is a quick guide to installing and configuring an SSD in your PS3:

BEFORE YOU START THIS:
If you have CRITICAL save games, then backup your HDD save files by going to the "Backup Utility" in the XMB menu. You will have to use a PC to format an external/portable HDD with the FAT32 Filesystem, the PS3 ONLY reads the FAT32 system. NOT NTFS.

First Off, What will you will need?:
- Your PS3 Console, mine is a 320GB 'Slim'


- A USB stick configured with the latest PS3 firmware.
If you do not know how to do this, it is very simple, on windows, go to the Australian PS website, and download the latest firmware to the desktop.
Plug in your USB, and make a new folder called "PS3" then create a folder called "UPDATE"
These folders MUST be in upper case.
Then copy the downloaded .pup into the UPDATE folder.
Your USB is now ready.


- The Solid State Drive (Mine is a 120GB Samsung 840)
You do NOT need a state-of-the-art SSD, the PS3 doesn't have Sata3 speeds and also has no TRIM function, so even a 2 year old SSD would be fine


- You will also need a small screwdriver set, I used a Clock/Jewelers Set. You literally only need 1 screwdriver...

Now we get to business.
Step 1: Flip the PS3 console over and remove the plastic covering the first screw:


Slide the Plastic front panel down the PS3 to reveal the HDD cage:


Now, remove the HDD cage by unscrewing the four screws and then install it on the SSD in the correct way:

Step 1 complete....



Step 2: Configuring the new SSD:
Plug your pre-configured USB stick into the PS3 and make sure your controller is connected via a cable.


Turn the PS3 on, and be greeted by this ominous message:

Press the start and select button simultaneously.

The USB will be checked and you will be greeted with another ominous message;

Press and Hold the START and SELECT button for at least 5 seconds.


The SSD will be formatted, a hell of a lot quicker than the old HDD:



Then after the console restarts, the new Firmware will be installed, This took me ages as my USB is USB1.0 standard []


Your PS3 is now SSD powered

If you are like me and like the best and fastest in everything, then this is a great update...
My PS3 is now going great, the console loads to the XMB menu in 5 seconds, The XMB menu loads everything instantly, moves with 0 lag, Loads GTAV from disk insert to playing in 2 minutes and now no longer has to buffer and render the games while you are driving/flying around the city fast.


So, there is the first "nerd" how-to What have you guys got to share and broaden everyone knowledge

those were the games back in the day, i may boot up the n64 and start playing again. May get adventurous and cruise the world or the USA!

Yeah it's a really nice colour, one of my favourite pearls. Only issue is the primer is showing through a little on the top of the controller where I couldn't really reach.

Here's a shot of the colour on the RC-F:

I still say the only car I'd want in orange is a McLaren or Koenigsegg.

^^ star wars troll

Anybody playing over watch?

Just ordered an Xbone today, any good games I should pick up along with it? Thinking about The Division, Battlefront, Overwatch, and Forza 6

Fallout 4.

Eh fallout 4 was a massive disappointment to me. It was lacking something that the previous games have

I'm waiting for a GOTY edition before I buy it, Fallout is just too depressing for me to play more often than not.

Here are some shots of my custom painted N64 controller for my fiance, was done a year or so ago and has a few scratched and crap now but still good
IMG_1450 by Rent A Space1, on Flickr

IMG_1451 by Rent A Space1, on Flickr

IMG_1453 by Rent A Space1, on Flickr

Just swapped a lid assembly on a Dell 15R N5010. Debating on dropping in an older mobile i5 while it's apart, they're only like $20-30 for used now, it's got a i3 370m which is a tad faster than the P6200 I'm using now in my other laptop, but nothing jaw dropping. An i5 580m adds the AES instructions, turbo boost to 3.33ghz, 100mhz higher graphics frequency, and a 2.66ghz base clock, as well as a bunch of virtualization features I'm unlikely to use in a laptop.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-580M...s0AAOSwnNBXVxSi

On the one hand yay faster, on the other hand greater chance of me fouling something up. And also longer wait before I use it since I have to take it apart to swap the stuff, I'm not putting it all back together.

This post has been edited by Bitter: Jun 11, 2016 - 1:34 PM

Something about no risk no reward comes to mind.

I may have sold one dragon (the Celica), but I picked up another today!

Anyone watching e3? Sony's conference was so good I might have to buy a ps4

Back when G4, and Tech TV prior, was around I did but as far as I know no one airs it on tv anymore. I have a PS4 and so far have been pleased with it, for what it costs new you do get a lot.

You can watch streams of it on the internets. I've just watched it when I've had time. There seems to be some good looking stuff.

When installing a new processor be sure to reconnect the cooling fan. I wondered why the laptop was so quiet, caught it before windows had booted, now running prime95 for a while to test and get the thermal compound all set. i5 580m, woots, old ****.

Forgot that a few times lel. The pc at least will shutdown and protect itself from damage

I have yet to thermally shutdown or throttle a CPU, I caught this one pretty quickly and luckily had not screwed anything together except what was essential to power on and test. I'm going to keep running prime95 off and on to set the thermal compound and check the CPU and RAM for flaws. It crashed ONCE with a windows error last night, but I think that was a windows problem since it's an old Win7 install I cleaned up. I think I may boot off a thumb drive and run prime95 in linux, but the hardware monitoring is more basic there though all I need are core temps.