360 Fan Noise

Sareth · 4 Apr 2007 at 10:54

Tony Williams said:
It's most likely going to be a Samsung MS28 as most are. How loud is the 360 WITHOUT a disc inside?

Mine is irritatingly loud with the high pitched whining from the fans. I made a couple of recordings but I dont have a cable to upload them from here.

Pookie Bear · 4 Apr 2007 at 13:08

I got a Hitachi one last week - it seemed fairly loud in the living room, but I've got it sitting next to my PC now and I can't tell which is making the most noise now. I suppose a normally quiet room makes it worse.

And OT, but what a pain it was sorting out my free month on Xbox Live - they refused to accept my old hotmail account because I thought I could sign up through the website. How rude! Had to start all over - and get those 7 achievements I'd worked so hard to get

Sareth · 6 Apr 2007 at 08:50

This is what it sounds like :

http://www.zen97535.zen.co.uk/360/recording1.wav

Princey · 6 Apr 2007 at 09:15

Exactly how mine sounds and it keeps changing pitch which annoys the hell out of me.

NorthstaNder · 6 Apr 2007 at 09:23

Yep, sounds totally normal to me. I don't find it in the least bit annoying.

The first noise you hear is the fans at the back of the 360, and when you put the disc in the initial whine of the DVD player which stops, to be replaced by the whoosh of the disc spinning round at a million miles an hour.

It's normal. I don't consider it loud at all and like someone else said, just turn your TV up if it bothers you that much.

Sareth · 6 Apr 2007 at 09:32

NorthstaNder said:
Yep, sounds totally normal to me. I don't find it in the least bit annoying.

The first noise you hear is the fans at the back of the 360, and when you put the disc in the initial whine of the DVD player which stops, to be replaced by the whoosh of the disc spinning round at a million miles an hour.

It's normal. I don't consider it loud at all and like someone else said, just turn your TV up if it bothers you that much.

I need to find a way round this, perhpas building a duct for the rear vents to both draw the heat away and shield me from the noise or theres going to be a news story about *a man giggling and shouting weeeeeeeeeeeeee oooooooooooooh weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee whilst dancing across his roof holding an unidentified grey object above his head* soon.

NorthstaNder · 6 Apr 2007 at 09:33

Sareth said:
I need to find a way round this, perhpas building a duct for the rear vents to both draw the heat away and shield me from the noise or theres going to be a news story about *a man giggling and shouting weeeeeeeeeeeeee oooooooooooooh weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee whilst dancing across his roof holding an unidentified grey object above his head* soon.

I look forward to reading the news story.

Sareth · 9 Apr 2007 at 13:51

Blue Peter'd my own cooling box to sit next to the bottom vents with the 360 sat horizontal....

simo182 · 9 Apr 2007 at 14:55

Is that a video box. Looks pretty decent fix. Keeps me info'd as to how good it is.

Ordered a 360 today so should get it in a few days.

NorthstaNder · 9 Apr 2007 at 15:00

Sareth said:
Blue Peter'd my own cooling box to sit next to the bottom vents with the 360 sat horizontal....

So now you're going to have to deal with even more noise. Nice one :rolleyes:

The noise you're hearing isn't because the darn thing is hot. It's the DVD drive.

Sareth · 9 Apr 2007 at 16:36

The noise you're hearing isn't because the darn thing is hot. It's the DVD drive.

I've read that on so many forums when looking up the issue of whiny fans, it isnt the dvd drive, that is a fact.

The fans make a high pitched whining noise, which is especially disruptive when the fans change speed and thus the pitch of the noise changes.

I made the box to try and keep the 360's temperature lower and more consistent and hopefully reduce the internal fans speed changes.