noisy 360

stevoman · 10-04-2008 10:26am #1

Do you find the xbox noisy. I only got mine yesterday and compared to my nintendo wii its is very loud. is this normal~>?

ntlbell · 10-04-2008 10:27am

stevoman wrote: »

Do you find the xbox noisy. I only got mine yesterday and compared to my nintendo wii its is very loud. is this normal~>?

If it sounds like a 747, it's working as designed.

stevoman · 10-04-2008 11:08am

ntlbell wrote: »

If it sounds like a 747, it's working as designed.

LOL cheers mate!

rejkin · 10-04-2008 12:19pm

I recently got lost odyssey and when i play it i have to higher up the volume to drown out the noise of the xbox,its crazy,if only i could change the fan without voiding my warranty....:(

CiDeRmAn · 10-04-2008 12:28pm

Its a noisy git at the best of times, I play with mine late at night (don't we all) and have to keep the volume on the tv down, yet often its lower then than the racket of the internal fans of the 360!
Yet the PS3, with integral PSU, is whisper quiet!?!

Maybe next time the 360s sucessor will be the quietest most powerful console on the planet,
that or they could market it as a leafblower with wonderful gaming capabilities!

SuprSi · 10-04-2008 4:27pm

On mine it's the DVD player that makes the noise, not the fan. When I'm watching a DVD it's fine - playing a game I have to turn the sound up. For whatever reason, the DVD is constantly spinning when playing a game. I would have thought they could have buffered some of the game data onto the hard disk to prevent this from happening.

Biro · 10-04-2008 5:45pm

SuprSi wrote: »

On mine it's the DVD player that makes the noise, not the fan. When I'm watching a DVD it's fine - playing a game I have to turn the sound up. For whatever reason, the DVD is constantly spinning when playing a game. I would have thought they could have buffered some of the game data onto the hard disk to prevent this from happening.

That would involve a different method of reading and running the game on the Premium and Elite models than on the Arcade, and that's too much hassle.
On mine it's the optical drive that's the problem too. The fans are quiet enough.

steviec · 10-04-2008 7:13pm

Yea the noise is a pain.

It's always a 50/50 decision for me buying multiplatform games - achievements vs silence.

dazftw · 11-04-2008 12:20am

try playing backup games :rolleyes:

its actually unreal. Volume has to go way up!

Zonda999 · 11-04-2008 6:49pm

Its defo the most annoying when playing a dvd or just listening to music.I still would'nt think its putting off people buying one, though

Passenger · 13-04-2008 7:26pm

Is the fan decibel level the same on all versions of the 360?

humanji · 14-04-2008 10:44am

I never really had a problem with the volume of mine. It's loud alright, but if I'm watching a movie, I've got surround sound turned up anyway, so I won't hear it, and if I'm playing a game, I get stuck into it and pretty much don't notice the world around me. Being oblivious rocks!

skywalker · 14-04-2008 11:40am

Zonda999 wrote: »

Its defo the most annoying when playing a dvd or just listening to music.I still would'nt think its putting off people buying one, though

Well that combined with unreliability put me off personally.

quad_red · 14-04-2008 12:04pm

It's only when I saw, and heard, a 360 and a PS3 side by side that I truly appreciated just how loud the 360 is.

How can the PS3 run so much quieter?

Cuddlesworth · 15-04-2008 5:18pm

quad_red wrote: »

It's only when I saw, and heard, a 360 and a PS3 side by side that I truly appreciated just how loud the 360 is.

How can the PS3 run so much quieter?

The Thermal design in the 360 is a joke thats why. There are 2 major heat producing chips in the 360 and the airflow only goes over 1 of them. Its also the reason for the massive hardware failures.

It's obvious it was designed with looks in mind, the hardware came after.

noisy 360

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