Building the Ultimate PS4 #Helpful Post

ken do you have anything to say for

yourself about this abomination about

this travesty that's in front of me

right now I didn't think so hey guys

this is Austin this disaster that sits

in front of me are some of the most

popular ps4 accessories now sure unlike

a game PC which you can fully customize

a ps4 is pretty much what you get is

well what you get however what I'm

curious about is whether any of the

stuff is remotely worth it so to start

with we have the Nyko intercooler so

they claim that this is going to direct

hot air away from the console which in

theory is going to be a thing that

actually could be really helpful

especially with the old fat kiss 4 it

could get really loud under load so one

of the things that drew me to the

intercooler is that this actually is

fairly well integrated into the ps4

design so as you'll see a second here it

basically just clips right on and that's

pretty much it so what we can have here

is it looks like one large fan and a

couple of smaller fans and the cool part

is it actually has its own power

pass-through so you need to turn this

thing on or off or any extra cables it

should just go on the back this just

clips into place I think that actually

integrates pretty well I've got to say

so it's even the sort of same two-tone

finish on the back you still have access

to all of your ports and you can still

plug in the power cable right here now

I'm curious how well it'll actually work

but it's worth a shot so if you're

rockin the ps4 slammer pro then Dobby

has you covered so this is the p4 series

multifunctional cooling stand we'll see

exactly how a multi-functional it really

is so the idea here is that not only can

you actually get a standard you can also

mount your controllers as well as some

games all in the one stand so here

there's a little bit bigger this product

can decrease the temperature for the ps4

effectively improving its performance

and decreasing the power loss the power

loss so while these cooling products

claim to lower the temperature of the

ps4 that really shouldn't give you more

performance the real advantage of the

thing I'm going to be looking for is if

temperatures come down in theory family

should come down and potentially

longevity of your ps4 should be improved

a little bit but we'll see so this is

made for everything from the fat ps4 to

the slim to the pro so if you have a

slim it drops in here but if we have the

so we should should be able to get it in

something like this actually fits pretty

well so there's nothing really holding

it in besides friction on the bottom we

do have those wait what it's really only

pulling a little bit of air from here I

mean they look like reasonable sized

fins but how is that gonna drive any

significant air flow into the ps4 next

up we have something a little bit more

simple this is a ps4 USB hub so as the

name suggests it's pretty

straightforward

it turns the two USB ports on the front

the ps4 into five so this is

specifically made for the fat ps4 so in

the back we have a pair of USB ports and

on the front we have one USB 3 which is

a pass-through and four standard USB 2

it should be pretty much as simple just

lining it up and that's it

again I appreciate how well this

actually fits with the original design

so even with this and the intercooler it

doesn't really look like a Frankenstein

I mean at least not yet now it's time

for the big guns this is the donk oh

game bar now that name doesn't really

tell you much but what this is going to

allow you to do is install a full

desktop hard drive into your ps4

infinity storage super speed dissipation

and stability man I am excited for this

one oh boy here we go

oh that looks that looks like a lot so

this is going to require just a little

bit of surgery on our ps4

however it's not going to be bad so the

ps4 as well as the ps4 slam and ps4 pro

all have removable hard drives so this

is going to allow us to do is instead of

using a small two and a half inch drive

like from a laptop to actually use a

full desktop drive this is feeling like

a dumber and dumber idea each second so

essentially this should kind of go and

replace this top piece so this glossy

piece right here just pops right off and

inside normally you would just replace

the hard drive here

however it's gonna be a little bit more

involved with this guy so to start we're

gonna take out the puny 500gb bite hard

drive in favor of something just a

little bit beefier so to really go all

out we're upgrading this with a 4

terabyte hard drive however this

actually supports up to 6 terabytes if

you really need all the storage you can

on top of that they actually just

announced a new ps4 firmware update that

will allow you to actually put games on

external USB drives

so if you

I get crazy with it you could put a ton

of storage in your ps4 so I just need to

set the SATA cable in like that and I

can close the whole thing up so all this

is is really just a pass-through so once

we're ready we just slide it in to the

standard ps4 slot and screwed in alright

here goes nothing so we want to run all

of our power and data this little slot

okay that works now we just need to drop

the hard drive in like this and that's

team very stable but besides that we

just have to attach the cable and in

theory we'd pretty much have a four

terabyte ps4 oh it totally fits ha ha ha

ha we've created a must dude if this is

about to work I'm gonna be so happy

this is I gotta say this might be the

proudest moment of my entire life

this is a masterpiece of elegant

Japanese engineering or that's all Ken's

fault so one quick firmware update later

we have the ultimate Frankenstein ps4 up

and running and as you can hear it's

kind of loud we also have the Energizer

extra life for the controller so this is

a dot that comes with an external

battery that clips on the bottom of the

controller so it doesn't really get in

the way when you're actually playing a

game first thing I want to check to see

if our storage is here so yep there we

go 3.5 1 terabytes of free space now

with so many ps4 shipping with a 500

gigabyte hard drive it can really get

cramped quickly so this is uncharted 4

and it looks swell exactly like

uncharted 4 so what I'm curious about

are the temperatures I can pretty

confidently say that this is louder than

a normal ps4 but I'm curious whether

that loudness actually does anything so

the ps4 with the intercooler and the

cooling stand top that around 49 degrees

with the exhaust however when you take

all that stuff off and run eight eight

tops out at about 50 that shouldn't be a

huge surprise so the intercooler is just

adding additional fans for the exhaust

it's still restricted by how much intake

air can actually get into the ps4 now

the cooling stand in theory would

actually help things by giving it some

fresh air however the actual intakes

themselves are tiny

and really not able to make a big

difference so is any of this worth it

kind of so first of all the Energizer

extra life doc is actually not bad

the doc itself is clean but most

importantly the battery doesn't get in

the way it legitimately does give you

extra time on the ps4 which brings us to

the game bar so on one hand it actually

works really well once you get past the

setup it's completely seamless and if

you really do need 4 or 6 terabytes of

storage with your ps4 then it's kind of

a no-brainer however if you don't need

that much storage it's a lot easier to

just install a one or two terabyte hard

drive and on top of that the update to

allow you to put games on a USB Drive is

coming soon I do really like the USB hub

so with the ps4 only having two USB

ports especially if you have something

like PlayStation VR set up those ports

disappear quickly which brings us to the

intercooler and the cooling stand don't

buy these the intercooler while it

actually does integrate pretty well and

doesn't really hurt anything I'm not

convinced actually makes any difference

whatsoever

now the stands does give you a few

options like being able to dr.

controllers as well as in theory giving

you a little bit more cooling but again

I don't really believe it's actually

making any significant difference as

always always you guys need to any of

this stuff will be in the description if

you want to go check it out and curious

what do you think about this monstrosity

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you in the next one