Sony quietly tweaked the liquid metal cooling setup on newer PS5 and PS5 Slim units after people kept complaining about thermal paste leaking all over the place inside their consoles. The company borrowed the deeper groove design from the PS5 Pro, and the fix showed up on CFI-2100 and CFI-2200 model numbers. You can tell if your console got the update by checking whether the thermal interface area has engraved lines instead of a flat surface.
Anyone with an older unit shouldn't panic unless overheating becomes a real problem, and reapplying liquid metal yourself is apparently a massive pain that requires professional help. Buyers shopping for a new console should hunt down the CFI-2116 B01Y revision to get the improved thermal management right out of the box.
Anyone with an older unit shouldn't panic unless overheating becomes a real problem, and reapplying liquid metal yourself is apparently a massive pain that requires professional help. Buyers shopping for a new console should hunt down the CFI-2116 B01Y revision to get the improved thermal management right out of the box.
