My 20GB YLODed somewhat recently.
Before it did, you could tell later-gen games really pushed it (Resistance 3, GTA 5). It would get hot and occasionally freeze. I put CFW on it and mostly used it for playing PS1/PS2 backups off an upgraded HDD and used a Slim to play PS3 games.
The consensus at this point is that the failure is some mix of the caps towards the center of the board going bad and damage done from inefficient cooling and bad thermal paste, right? The old arguments about reballing as a permenent solution appear to have gone out the window
Before it did, you could tell later-gen games really pushed it (Resistance 3, GTA 5). It would get hot and occasionally freeze. I put CFW on it and mostly used it for playing PS1/PS2 backups off an upgraded HDD and used a Slim to play PS3 games.
The consensus at this point is that the failure is some mix of the caps towards the center of the board going bad and damage done from inefficient cooling and bad thermal paste, right? The old arguments about reballing as a permenent solution appear to have gone out the window