Why does my ps3 keep overheating?

i play my ps3 for about 10 hours a day. i play for 3 or 4 and take two hour break. when i play again i touch entire console and dont play again till its not warm at all. the ps3 is in a cold room to keep from overheating with an open window in the winter...

Hi there i bought a 80gb ps3 in march 09 Its happend a few times now( about 5) when i am playing some games, the whole system freazes up and no buttons on the control will work, I have to keep finger on the power button and then it beeps 3 times and...

I need help with my PS3 heating problem, so the story is: my PS3 has started overheating a year ago, it wasn't until the PS3 pop a massage saying that it i will have to shut down my PS3 to prevent damage to the hardware (I was playing Killzone 2), so...

My game has frozen on me twice and I am not sure why. Once when it was loading BF3 it froze, second when I was playing online it froze while loading a multiplayer level. Is this a hardware problem or a disc problem? There is no scratches or damage to...

Recently (for about 2 weeks now), my PS3 has been making very loud noises and has been getting extremely hot. After playing for about 30 minutes, it'll rev up and become very loud. I'm a bit worried about it because I have several pre-orders on several...

alright im going to try and start from the beginning. i have had an 80gb ps3 for the last 3 years and for the last year it has been overheating (it sometimes freezes when im on the browser too like watching movies and even playing online Black ops etc...

I have a July 2007 Motorstorm 80GB ps3 which i bought in January 2008. As of recently I dont have room on my desk to put my ps3 on as i'm in college and need desk space and I need a slim to fit where i want it to without problems of potential overheating...

Like will it help it stay cooler