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imho no, because after more than a decade from production the TIM is caked and you must delid the CPU to get decent temperatures.
If they made a new ps3, i would buy it, i'd love to use it as a media center, the newer consoles can't even play music from CD. But when i realize that's it's an hair dryer using 170 watts in idle / playing media....
Good point, I didn't think about the degraded performance aspect. I guess if I did get one, I should look for one of the later revisions.