Sony Computer Entertainment Playstation 3 12GB System

This unit is much smaller than my original PS3, I paired it with a Sabrent 2.5" Hard Disk Drive Mounting Kit Bracket for PS3 Super Slim CECH-400x Series (BK-HDPS) and an Crucial MX300 275GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT275MX300SSD1This Slim PS3 runs cooler than the original unit, takes up less space, and with an large SSD installed in the hard drive slot, seems like a rocket compared to my original "fat" PS3.The Crucial SSD was very easy to install once I had the Sabrent 2.5" Mounting kit, which I ordered along with the PS3, and installed in minutes.I run PS3 Gran Turismo 5 XL Edition , Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - PlayStation 3 , and Grand Theft Auto V - PlayStation 3 , which required the aftermarket SSD, but once all of this was setup it runs incredibly well, takes up less space, is cooler, and I estimate it will run longer than the original PS3, this represents an optimal value and paired up with the SSD and mounting kit runs better than I could have expected.

I bought the 12gig ps3 super slim to replace my tanked ps2 last May used but like new condishion I read some pelesent and non pelesent reviews about it I had to get a 50$ controller and 250 gig harddrive 30$ and mounting plate 5-15$ its been amazeing so far runs games amazeingly was fairly quiet when I bought I've put probley 400 -300 hours on it mabey more and only since i put 60 - 70 hours on it playing farcry3 and it fell off a table it was sitting on did it the fan get really loud but still plays great about to get the slim modelthen maybe the day would defnity but another super slim model agine amaseing buy only cons for me no after market cooling fans and av cabel get really hot pros the fan runs the entire length of the backside of the super slim and the fan is the same fan size that is in the slim the units other hardware is a bit smaller thou so fairly cool also fast to get disk out when the unit is off a contrast to other models

I was going to review this sooner and be harsher because I thought I clicked on a "Like New" and apparently looking back the one I ordered was "Very Good". Not the first time something I ordered on Amazon specifically for something stated in the quality and then it changed when I wanted to complain, but I guess until I remember to start taking screenshots oh well.I was going to be harsher because I ordered a drive bay and this 12GB PS3, expecting to use an old drive with it and call that good. It showed up with a drive bay and drive already in it and without the original packaging I thought I had selected it for. If it were still listed as "Like New" and still listed as coming with that packaging I could point at that and be much more dissatisfied, but relative to the current listing it is fair enough.Aside from the non-original packaging (listing at this time no longer suggests it would have come with that anyway) and it having a drive (less an issue and more an "I ordered something additional I did not need." sort of thing), the only real problem I had was a downright embarrassing Mini USB cable. I wound up using a different one I had lying around (I am the sort to have various cables lying around) because the one packaged was all weird-looking on the controller end and would not stay in. Thankfully those are less than a dollar apiece to replace, so not too concerned, but that combined with the inaccurate listing (the drive part, it was clearly listed as not having an HDD in it) and that I had to go fetch a file for a USB stick for it to start up enough to install the drive feels like enough to call it 4/5, although if we had a finer-grained rating system I would probably have done 4.5/5 instead.So far it seems to work just fine, replacement cable is charging the controller so no issues there, it connects to the network over wire or wireless. Have not bothered testing the older TV connection because HDMI is working fine and that is all I cared about anyway, but games are running just as well as on my brother's PS3 and what few other "apps" I would be likely to use seem to work as well as they should on such an "old" system (that it is a PS3, not this specific model, I know this model is physically newer). I will probably /someday/ swap out the drive for a faster one, but this definitely meets all the critical points I care about right now.