this video is sponsored by ifixit and today i'm going to show you how to correctly clean your ps5 so there are several things you're going to need if you're going to be cleaning out your ps5 i always use a cleaning brush depending on how far you're going to be going you're going to be needing some tools i use the ifixit protech toolkit if you're needing a good set of precision tools i fix it has some of the best tool kits around and right now they're having their best deals of the season ifixit is also giving tronix fix viewers 10 off their order of 50 or more right now when you go to ifixit.com tronixfix i also use a can of canned air as well as a mini vacuum so i like to say the ps5 has three stages of cleaning going from easiest to hardest so i'm going to start with stage one to get the cover off you need to pull up on this corner then push that way then we need to do the same for the bottom cover pull up and push now that we have the covers off we can see the intake and exhaust areas on the ps5 so here is one intake area and on the bottom side is the other intake area so the first stage of cleaning is going to be cleaning these intake fins and for those you'll just need something like a cleaning brush that can just really get in there and get any dirt or dust out of these fins then you can go along with canned air and clean it all off like that once that's done you can do the same thing on the top side clean off any dirt hair or debris that gets built up on these fins and then blow it off with canned air now if you have dust buildup on these intake fins you'll likely have some dust buildup on the top and bottom plastics what i normally do with any dust that's built up if it is not loose dust if it's kind of caked on you need to loosen it with a brush or something like that and then once it's loose i go in with canned air and just kind of blow it off and then if i really want to get it clean i use some isopropyl alcohol and something like a paper towel or even a microfiber cloth works fine and then just go through and clean all the dust that is still on the cover now obviously this ps5 is completely clean as these consoles just came out but i wanted to get a jump on showing you how to clean them just you can keep your ps5 running cleaner and longer you can use that same method for the top cover now there's one other thing we can do as part of stage one and that is use this hole and this hole to clean out any dust that builds up down in here unfortunately these are super tiny holes and a regular vacuum even this mini vacuum can't even get close to reaching down in there so if you're trying to clean out the dust from these holes you'll have to use something with a much smaller hose you can use something like a data vac or you can also get kits that have smaller hoses for regular vacuums but in all honesty i don't think cleaning out these two holes is really gonna do too much if you have a very dirty console that's all there is to stage one and if you clean your ps5 out a lot then you should be good to go but if you notice a lot of dust buildup in your fan then we move on to stage two now stage two is going to take a little bit more disassembly and you're also gonna need a screwdriver with a t8 security torx but a t9 also usually works you will need to remove this little piece right here which is pretty easy we just need to pull up on it and that gets us started and then that whole piece will come off now after that piece is off then we can remove these four screws off of this fan plate and then this plate comes off we need to remove this black adhesive piece then we just need to disconnect the fan and to do that i'm going to grip with my pliers right on the edge of this white plastic piece this more yellowish plastic piece is connected to the motherboard so don't pull on that so you can see how i'm just on that white part i'm going to go back and forth while i pull up and that gets the fan connector right off and now we can remove the fan just pull it straight up and out now to clean the fan on the ps5 it's going to be the same sort of thing we're going to use this cleaning brush to just get in and clean any dust off of the fans anything that is caked on and just won't come off with a vacuum or with canned air i'll just go through and clean off with the brush and then you can also come on the back side do the same thing and then also down in here and then after it's loose we can come in with a vacuum and vacuum it up and then we can do the same thing on this top side just go in with a cleaning brush clean out any caked on dirt and dust then we can go in with a vacuum or canned air and get the dust out so once the fan is completely clean we can also get to the heat sinks from right inside the fan hole in order to do that we just need to flip it up like this and then you can see the heatsink right here there's also another heatsink back in here further once again i'll be using this cleaning brush to clean off the heat sink and i'm just going to get it as far back as i can safely without jamming it in and i'll just go along and clean any dust off of the fins like this now on a console that has a lot of dust buildup we'll need to go in with a vacuum and just suck all of that out you can use canned air if necessary but a vacuum is nice because it just gets all of the dust and pulls it into the vacuum instead of using canned air well that just pushes dust all around everything else also if you notice a thick layer of dust and debris on these heatsink fins you definitely need to clean that out because that will cause overheating but more importantly you need to locate your ps5 somewhere else because it's just picking up way too much dirt and hair and debris and it's just going to keep having this problem if you leave it where it is so that's the end of stage two hopefully that's enough cleaning and you can just put it together from there but if you still have a lot of dirt and dust buildup inside your ps5 then we need to move on to stage three for stage three we're going to be removing this cable we're going to remove this top case and then we're going to remove the motherboard and heatsink sandwich out of the ps5 so then we can do further cleaning don't forget the expandable hard drive slot screw and the silver screw on the disk drive and then we can remove the plastic mid frame from the ps5 once that's removed we can remove the disk drive we need to push down on this silver lock and then wiggle the ribbon cable out and then we can remove the disk drive now with the disk drive out we need to remove this ribbon cable these cable connectors here this ribbon cable this ribbon cable once those are all removed we need to remove this black screw over here we need to flip it over and remove this screw and this screw now we can flip it back over and now is the fun part we have to remove 41 screws from around this metal plate we don't need to remove this screw right here or this screw right here and with those 41 screws removed then we can remove this top plate before i do too much with this top plate i do want to mention it is important to clean this heatsink as well and it's the same process with this brush just clean out the fins using this side of the brush or this side now we can disconnect this huge ribbon cable right here then we can lift out the motherboard and heatsink sandwich there we go the first thing you want to do with your ps5 once you get that out is clean out the power supply vent holes you can see right here there's a whole bunch of holes for the power supply air goes in there and exits over here just to help keep the power supply cool and we use the same method we'll go through with this cleaning brush and then go through with the vacuum or canned air to remove all of the dirt from around the power supply once the power supply is clean we can worry about the heatsink fins now to clean out the heatsink on the ps5 we can tip it up like this and then take the cleaning brush and get it down as far as we can in the fins without jamming it down there too far and then sweep up just like this and that will remove any dust that's caked on to the fins of the ps5 and then we want to do the same thing on this side the small end of the brush really gets into these tighter spaces easier and then the same thing over here now what i usually do is i'll go through with the vacuum and vacuum out the fins after i've loosened the dust and then after that i'll take some canned air and blow out any loose dust back through the fins out the other side of the heat sinks once these heat sinks are completely clean then we're done with stage three now all there is left to do is assemble the ps5 i'll be basically just working backwards from when i took it apart and we'll first install the motherboard then we can install this plate with the 41 screws just to speed this process up a little bit and once those are all installed we need to install this black screw over here then we flip it over and install the two black screws on the bottom one goes here and one goes here then we can flip it back over and install all the ribbon cables and wi-fi bluetooth connectors once those are all installed we can put the disk drive back in be sure that the holes are lined up on the disk drive before you put on the plastic mid frame then we can install the screws and these cables and we put the cover on the expansion drive slot next is the fan and the fan cover next the plastic vent piece goes on we've got one little tab here and one little tab here so one tab is going to go over here the other is going to go right in here then it just clips down like that don't forget the plastic cover it goes over these wires and then the bottom cover goes on and then the top cover and that is how you clean the playstation 5. be sure to check out all of ifixit's great deals going on now through the end of the year at ifixit.com tronixfix thank you so much for watching and i hope you have a good one