PS3 Fans kicking in?

Sweetloaf · 23 Apr 2008 at 00:40

I've had a PS3 for about 1 week now but today for some reason the fans seem to ramp up in speed out of nowhere from time to time, It's ludicously loud.

Anyone else's do this?

Sweetloaf · 23 Apr 2008 at 08:18

It was on all day playing games whilst downloading in a reasonably warm room, I'll see how it goes today I guess.

Cheers for the reassurance guys.

Sweetloaf · 23 Apr 2008 at 11:29

Pav89 said:
hope you enjoy seeing how loud the ps3 really is!

Already found out, hence this thread.

psychas said:
i think xbox will be in the dust this year as last year they were so confident when ps3 did sell well but now more games coming out on ps3 and they are bit cheaper and going to go down even more as i seen somewhere already that ps3 outsold xbox360 for this month.

*waves goodbye to xbox360*

Thanks for the insight, don't seem to recall asking anything about which console was best, please start that thread elsewhere.

Sweetloaf · 27 Apr 2008 at 23:30

Well it locked up just now whilst playing Uncharted, 5 mins rebooted and five mins into my game the fan cranked up to unacceptable levels.

Gonna have to send this heap of junk back I think.

My fans speed up a fair amount just sitting on the dash, that can't be normal surely?

Sweetloaf · 23 Jun 2008 at 11:18

Quick update, I was watching a DvD yesterday, the room was cool and the PS3 is well vented and yet the fans went mental several times.

I've been on the phone to Sony and they are replacing it next week, no quibbles, they are just sending a replacement.

Sweetloaf · 13 Jul 2008 at 11:28

Ok another update, Sony picked up my PS3 the other day and replaced it with a refurbished/reconditioned one. I checked it before accepting and it was all in good shape, now the important part, it's silent

I have to put my ear to it to hear anything when on the dashboard and when gaming/upscaling DVDs i can hear the faint noise of air being pushed out from around 2ft away if the TV volume is off, otherwise I wouldn't know it was there. I'm guessing that this is the way they are supposed to be.

Chuffed