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CTOnews.com, January 16 (Xinhua)-- according to officials, both Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S can be placed vertically or horizontally, but a recent report caused panic among players when a maintenance shopkeeper advised players not to place PS5 vertically for a long time, saying it might cause damage.

French hardware repair shop owner @ 68logic recently tweeted that placing the PS5 upright would permanently damage the mainframe because the liquid metal interface used on the customized AMD APU could overflow, affecting heat dissipation. Ben Montana, the owner of ILoveMyConsole, a French professional maintenance shop, independently confirmed this fact. This problem may occur when the seal between the APU and the heatsink is not tight, leading to the risk of liquid metal spilling. This is very serious because the liquid metal is conductive and may cause a short circuit if it comes into contact with other motherboard components. YouTuber TheCod3r also confirmed that he saw the leaking liquid metal in one of his videos.

However, this should be a translation error. The story was first reported by Wololo, but the website later withdrew the article on the grounds that there was a translation error.

However, the site insists that the discovery of these liquid metal spills is true in itself, but it is not caused by vertical placement. This only happens when the PS5 is taken apart and repaired because the heat sink connected to the APU is shifted and breaks the barrier that Sony has set up to prevent liquid metal from spilling.

Therefore, if your PS5 has not been dismantled, then there is no need to worry about how it is placed, even if it has been dismantled, the probability is very small.

CTOnews.com learned that recently, PlayStation officials have also released a novice PS5 boot tutorial, the first of which mentions the horizontal / vertical issue of recent widespread concern.

In the instructions on how to install the PS5 host base, Sony said that when setting up to use the PS5 host, be sure to install the base to the PS5 host. How you install the pedestal depends on how you place the PS5 host. From this point of view, the official has no special requirements for horizontal and vertical, which depends entirely on individual needs. Officials have not publicly responded to the problem of leakage of liquid gold.

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