I have added a picture of the original RSX IHS pulled of my old arcade motherboard next to the replacement and a picture of the RSX IHS from my PlayStation 3 slim. Who ever serviced this board did an excellent job. Also, an added tantalum capacitor has been added near the RSX. It appears that the RSX has been replaced with a PlayStation 3 slim RSX.

Now this is the interesting part and I need your guys help to see if this is indeed what I’m seeing. The CELL and RSX have also seemed to have been completely reballed as well. The board had new thermal paste and thermal pads.Upon further inspection I noticed that the IHS have definitely been removed and had been put back on with some red thermal glue. So I took of the giant heatsink and to my surprise, it did have some work done to it.

I decided to replace the thermal paste as I was under the assumption that the board was stock and hasn’t been worked on. However I did find another working replacement PS3 arcade motherboard. Unfortunately the board wasn’t able to be repaired, most likely a dying RSX or something else so I stored it away. Hello everyone! I final update regarding my 357A PS3 motherboard.

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