{"id":178979,"date":"2023-01-06T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/placing-your-ps5-vertically-could-kill-it-unverified-claims-suggest\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:20:03","slug":"placing-your-ps5-vertically-could-kill-it-unverified-claims-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/placing-your-ps5-vertically-could-kill-it-unverified-claims-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Placing Your PS5 Vertically Could Kill It, Unverified Claims Suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Questionable claims that positioning your PS5 vertically could eventually break it have been spread online over the past 24 hours. However, with so few examples of a flaw touted by a French repair shop, it’s very unlikely to be something you actually need to worry about. Along with another console repair store, both suggest a design flaw in the PS5’s innards could cause liquid metal to spill out of its casing and damage other components, thus bricking the system.<\/p>\n

Used to cool the console, the claims mention a potential seal breakage between the APU (accelerated processing unit) and its cooler, which would then leak liquid metal onto other bits and pieces. The theory is that if your PS5 is placed horizontally, the substance won’t go anywhere \u2014 it’ll simply stay put in its casing. However, if the system is vertical, then there’s the risk of liquid metal seeping out.<\/p>\n

Those discussing the claim suggest it loses a lot of credibility when to even have the possibility of liquid metal leak out of its casing, “something bad” needs to happen to the seal protecting it. Buried within the PS5’s other components, the chances of that happening appear minuscule. The two repair shops warn this flaw will cause the system to overheat and damage the motherboard. But if you’re already moving your PS5 around so much and vandalizing it to the point where a small casing inside it has been broken, then you may already have a bigger problem.<\/p>\n