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DIY Perks' PS5 tablet makes cooling the main engineering challenge

Matt's portable console build combines a salvaged laptop OLED screen with custom cooling and an external power supply.

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Building a REAL PlayStation 5... PORTABLE!

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1:00The PS5 motherboard needs a low-profile cooling system capable of handling its processor's substantial heat output.
2:49Matt nickel-plates a copper heatsink block before using liquid metal thermal compound.
4:28The first cooling arrangement overheats during gameplay and triggers a shutdown.
6:17Dual heatsinks, rerouted heat pipes and three laptop blower fans bring the cooling-block temperature down.
12:15A salvaged laptop OLED panel supplies the integrated display, backed by carbon fibre.
15:12The working console gets gameplay, fan-noise and multiplayer tests.

DIY Perks posted nothing new this week, but Matt's portable PlayStation project has plenty going on inside its slim case. "Building a REAL PlayStation 5... PORTABLE!" is currently the channel's busiest video, approaching nine million views.

The central problem isn't fitting a screen. It's getting the heat out. An early cooling test ends with the console shutting itself down during gameplay, sending Matt back to the thermal layout. His revised arrangement uses dual heatsinks, rerouted heat pipes and three laptop blower fans. He reports a cooling-block temperature of 42°C at full load.

Then come the touches that make this more than a console squeezed into a box: a miniature subwoofer, stereo speakers and a thin OLED panel salvaged from a laptop. The power supply stays outside, connected by a custom flexible cable. Friends join him for Rocket League once the build is working. The video also contains a sponsored segment.

The older tablet project is drawing more daily views than either "Building a NEW kind of invisible PC" or "A new way to build a PC in 2026!". Together with the rest of the archive, those builds helped DIY Perks add roughly 350,000 views over the week. Subscribers stayed steady, while the current daily viewing pace is slightly below usual.

Among nearby DIY channels, Half-Asleep Chris and I did a thing are enjoying livelier-than-usual daily viewing. For DIY Perks, the week's most active attraction remains Matt's unusually elaborate answer to taking a PS5 along.

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