Call of Duty 4 bricking PS3

Apparently there is a problem with the disc of CoD4. Unfortunately I cannot read the topics i saw at another forum as they are websensed, but I'll post them here, so anyone can read if there's some truth behind this.

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EDIT: I just read this:

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IT's the 90nm CELL not the GPU. The 90nm RSX GPU is tried and proven technology. RSX-like chips have been running in PC's for years. The problem lives with the 90nm Cell chip, COD4 will pushs the 90nm Cell harder than any game before, the chip will heat up and the heat will not move out of the PS3 quick enough cause failure. the Cell will die and the power supply and the Cell will not communicate anymore. 40 gig PS3's are not having this problem becasue they use a 65nm Cell Chip that is faster and cooler.

I have a 40GB one, but I don't know if this post is trustworthy? Don't know what's the hype anyway?
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Slightly worrying. I had a quick read through some of the threads you linked to and it seems there is a lot of conflicting information.

Some are saying it is the game bricking the PS3 due to a conflict with firmware 2. Others are saying it is only effecting the 60GB version of the PS3, while others are saying it has nothing to do with the game and is just a faulty batch of PS3 PSUs and the game pushes the system enough to stretch these PSUs over their limit and the system shuts down to protect itself.

But no one yet knows for sure. Someone even said the game is doing similar things to PCs and Xbox 360s, which I find very hard to believe. Especially to PCs.
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Ah modern technology. Designed and tested by smurfs.
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Umm... did you ever see a picture of the key designer of the Amiga, Jay Miner? He looked more like a smurf than anyone I've ever seen. I still swear his beard was false though!

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Ah but that was before the smurf brand was sold to mega corporations and dumbed down. Besides paint Alan Sugar blue and there you have Papa Smurf and we all know what Amstrad products are like.
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Hmm ... I haven't had trouble with my PS3 yet after playing CoD4 for several hours, but then again, I've only played the Single Player campaign so far, and only went online one time.

Something about the whole story sounds a bit fishy to me though. A specific game directly killing a piece of hardware, while other games are just fine? I don't see that happening.
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Originally Posted by Harrison:
Umm... did you ever see a picture of the key designer of the Amiga, Jay Miner? He looked more like a smurf than anyone I've ever seen. I still swear his beard was false though!

Lets face it the original Amiga designers were nerds who wanted to get laid. Amiga means girlfriend. The chips are named after women all in a cunning bid to fool thier other nerdy friends that they were actually getting some action when we all know that people with beards are either single or grew their beard after being in a relationship for a long time.
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Some even mentioned that the same happend to PS2 consoles with CoD3. Is this the big CoD bug?
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Like I said before, that guy has a bear growing in his beard....

Get it?! BEARd? HAHA.

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Originally Posted by Demon Cleaner:
IT's the 90nm CELL not the GPU. The 90nm RSX GPU is tried and proven technology. RSX-like chips have been running in PC's for years. The problem lives with the 90nm Cell chip, COD4 will pushs the 90nm Cell harder than any game before, the chip will heat up and the heat will not move out of the PS3 quick enough cause failure. the Cell will die and the power supply and the Cell will not communicate anymore. 40 gig PS3's are not having this problem becasue they use a 65nm Cell Chip that is faster and cooler.

I say total bullshit. CoD4 pushing the Cell harder than any other game? People have been Folding@Home on the PS3 for days, weeks and even months on end without the PS3 failing, so it's ludicrous to claim that a game could somehow cause the Cell to overload. If anything can push a CPU load to the max, it's F@H, period.

People who make up this crap must've been dropped on their heads when they were still babies.

And 65nm Cells being faster and cooler? Cooler, yes. But other than the production process being different, both chips will be entirely identical functionally.
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