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A television game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, also known as PS4. First announced February 20, 2013 and released November 15, 2013.

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Ps4 fan never changes speed, always on low.

I recently cleaned out a PS4 I was given, because it was awful and would overheat. I cleaned it out and changed the power supply, it does turn on now, however after doing so the fan will never speed up when its getting hot and it causes some games to stutter. (or the only one I've seen was Overwatch it makes my controls delay and the sound shuts off sometimes) Maybe I didnt hook something up? I dont know where it would sense temp from I'd guess somewhere on the board though right? Anyways thanks in advance.

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If it isnt changing after a factory reset of the device, i would suggest two things.

First, try to replace the fan. The signal could not be making it to the fan itself.

if this doesnt fix the issue, then the heat sensors are not working. Splice the 5V input of the fan, to the 12V output of the PSU. The fan will be very loud, but will also be running on max at all times instead of low, which will help with the overheating.

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Yeah, I'll probably just live with it being super loud and on full fan. Anyway where should I run this wire? Its a pretty long distance, I guess over the PSU. Unless I'm thinking of connecting it to the wrong thing.

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Well there are multiple revisions of the PS4, so it can be different for each. the simplest solution to this, is running it all the way to the plug for the power supply, regardless of model. When doing this, try your best to follow any other wires as much as possible, and use the natural grooves between parts to get there.

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Do you have to cut the wire and join the two together so the voltage doesn’t go back to the motherboard? Can you just do it at the fan connection?

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It is very possible your heat sensors that control the fans are damaged. I don’t know much about PS4 but that seems like the surefire solution to it.

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I've recently cleaned my ps4 slim and the fan is allot quite but when playing older games like gta i never hear the the fan ramp up but other games it nearly ramps up I've only opened the metal plate to clean my slim fan and heatsink didn't touch any other thing wich is strange

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I'm quite worried that the fan isn't doing its job to cool the system however I've played about 6-7 hours and nothing happened the fan still was quiet and my ps4 didn't overheat however I'm honestly thinking of buying a pc I'm tired of songs console problemes

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Hi, i’ve the same problem.

The ps4 slim is off and cold… i turn on it. i select cod mw, when the map or mission is still loading the fan start at full speed. Everything works good, but… when i quit the game and change the game to fifa 20 the cooler never start at full speed and the problems begins.

At the same way is if i start fifa 20 first with the ps4 cold and i changing to cod mw then.

The ps4 don´t change to full speed twice

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Need to clean it out and change thermal paste for a start.

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Hey,recently I Diassmbled my ps4 to clean it up.I cleaned all the way to the power supply,applied new thermal paste and turn it on.So the ps4 wont even become hot.I touch and it is pretty cooler than previously but the fans will turn on full power whenever i play a game.Well they wont turn on full power all the time but most of the time they do.What this could mean?I also dont encounter any performance issues and it seems to runs way better than before

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Did you figure it out ? I have the exact same issue. It runs at full speed even thought it does not have to. I'm confused

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Hi I've also cleaned out my ps4 however it is also very quiet and doesent ramp up but 0 stutters and it doesent overheat so

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Bro my ps4 is also making so much noise

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