360 noise

willthepirate · 3 Sep 2007 at 19:58

grabbed a 360 at the weekend, going awesome but is it meant to be so damn noisy o_O

furnace · 3 Sep 2007 at 19:59

Short answer: Yep

Zefan · 3 Sep 2007 at 20:02

Very much so!

Remember: DON'T move the console if a disc is in the drive.

Sort of off topic I know but I've got in the habit of telling this to everyone just because it's terrible if you do

Kainz · 3 Sep 2007 at 20:05

Depends on what DVD drive/fans you have. Some 360's like my launch day one are completely silent.

lakebodom60 · 3 Sep 2007 at 20:12

Hopefully the Xbox 720 will be water cooled or similar

Kreeeee · 3 Sep 2007 at 20:51

lakebodom60 said:
Hopefully the Xbox 720 will be water cooled or similar

I doubt it, that's a definite PR disaster in the making. How would you replenish the water supply when the water goes off too?

Rhys · 3 Sep 2007 at 21:11

it was rumoured the 360 would be partly water cooled.

Wyrdo · 3 Sep 2007 at 21:24

Unless you guys mean the heatsinks that have fluid in the pipes like the Dreamcast had?

Kreeeee · 3 Sep 2007 at 21:26

wyrdo said:
Unless you guys mean the heatsinks that have fluid in the pipes like the Dreamcast had?

That's very different to watercooling though.

Flanno · 3 Sep 2007 at 21:31

Kreeeee said:
I doubt it, that's a definite PR disaster in the making. How would you replenish the water supply when the water goes off too?

They could implement a mid range thermoelectric cooler like dell do in the XPS 720 (half water,half peltier). Lasts for 8 years. No user serviceable parts. A bit on the big side though.

Wyrdo · 3 Sep 2007 at 21:33

Kreeeee said:
That's very different to watercooling though.

Aye, just wondered if that's what the confusion was. You're never going to see watercooling in a console, like you said, it'd be a disaster.

LoadsaMoney · 3 Sep 2007 at 22:56

One of the reasons i got shot of mine, sounded like your 52x speed CD Rom going full pelt constantly, and the fact that they were all duff, so got shot before it died to.

skullman · 3 Sep 2007 at 23:02

Just turned mine on and its dead :/ It was fine the last time I used it as well - bugger

Dave · 3 Sep 2007 at 23:20

Kainz said:
Depends on what DVD drive/fans you have. Some 360's like my launch day one are completely silent.

Yep, my Elite is pretty silent too. Must be luck of the draw!

.one. · 3 Sep 2007 at 23:25

yep mine got the boot because of noise but some say theres are quite
so depends on the draw.

DanMc07 · 4 Sep 2007 at 11:32

Yeah my mate came over the other day whos never played on a 360 and he was amazed at hope loud the drive was when playing a game.

Rossmac · 4 Sep 2007 at 12:01

Rhys said:
it was rumoured the 360 would be partly water cooled.

OurColony.net was the 360's viral marketing campaign, and the video released there was the first announcement of the 360. In it they showed the motherboard with 2 guys and one said "watercooled" briefly. Evidently nothing came of it.

Maccy · 4 Sep 2007 at 12:22

Zefan said:
Sort of off topic I know but I've got in the habit of telling this to everyone just because it's terrible if you do

Lovely videos on youtube of it - sound like a chainsaw!

Baz · 4 Sep 2007 at 12:28

Also, don't bother with the third party cooling units, they don't work and make the 360 run hotter!!!

Just make sure its in a well ventilated area free from excessive dust

Rhys · 4 Sep 2007 at 14:06

This weekend Im intending to replace the fans with Talismoon 360 replacement fans and also do a mod which involves sticking a piece of card which channels the air over the gpu heatsnk better. Both apparently will reduce heat inside console and therefore speed of fans and therefore noise of 360 when not doing anything but playing wmv from an external hdd or downloading in the background.

If it plays a DVD or game that it will always be noisy.