Go inside the PSP-3000, literally

Posted Oct 16th 2008 8:40AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News

If for some reason you wanted to rip open a PSP Brite system and see its innards -- well, PC Watch will let you satiate your fantasy vicariously. There's no need to waste hundreds of dollars to buy a new system simply to open it and see what's inside. Let these guys do it for you instead.

To check out the comprehensive gallery, click here.

Tags: psp-3000, psp-brite

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

10-16-2008 @ 9:25AM

SparkyJ23 said...

Interesting - A side by side comparison with the Phat and the 2000 would have been nice

10-16-2008 @ 10:05AM

Unknown said...

i've been looking into the possibility of putting a 3000 screen into a 2000 model, and with these pics the chances are rather slim.
the first link is from the above article and the second link is from a side by side between the 1000 and the 2000. its clear that the 2000 and 3000 use different connectors

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2008/1016/psp34.jpg

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20070919/139324/AAA.jpg

10-16-2008 @ 10:41AM

wem003 said...

Not knocking your idea - but I am curious why you want to do that, other than to play with the hardware.

10-16-2008 @ 11:05AM

Xaijin said...

Because the screen is brighter.

10-16-2008 @ 12:13PM

Strike Man said...

I'm fairly certain wem003's question still stands.

The screen is brighter, we know that. It doesn't explain why someone who owns a 2000 would then purchase a 3000...only to rip the screen out and place it back into the 2000.

Again, the geeky "because we can" answer would suffice, but we're wondering if there's another objective being sought out here.

10-16-2008 @ 1:49PM

unknown said...

Strike Man. i wouldn't go out and buy a 3000, i would just buy the screen, which would work out to be rather cheap, for a 2000 screen its about $45-50. and reason why i would ever do this is for the screen clarity, one of things i found terrible about FFCC was the blur, with games such as Final Fantasy: Dissidia coming out, there will be a great deal of ghosting. i personally notice ghosting on my PSP sometimes but that doesn't mean others will.

10-16-2008 @ 7:06PM

andwhyisit said...

The connectors look to be the same on all three to be honest.

10-17-2008 @ 6:19AM

JamesNorman93 said...

Please note this tho...
Because the new screen is brighter/better, it uses more
power.
To make sure the battery life didn't change, Sony got to work making other components in the PSP use less power and succeeded.
My main concern is that if you did get the screen you would loose quite a bit of battery life since the PSP-2000 doesn't contain the modified components as the PSP-3000 does...

10-16-2008 @ 2:23PM

darkprime said...

You can buy replacement screens for the 1000 and 2000 series on ebay, so one would think you eventually could buy a 3000 screen only, so you wouldn't need the whole psp.

10-18-2008 @ 6:01PM

x4v13r said...

Nice indeed! Does anybody knows by any chance a similar page doing the same on a PS3 ?

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