Xbox One X

AWPC said:
I would not trust anything DF produces I bet they are like the rest of the gaming industry being given promotional freebies to be selective about what parts of a game to capture...………;)
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I believe you @AWPC but Digital Foundry is my religion. If they said black was white I'd believe them. :p
 
I was going to say, Digital Foundry are a trusted source of tech analysis at this time. Their findings usually match my own. I cant comment any further on ROTR until I've played more, but the opening scene looked excellent for me. I wont be comparing it to the PC version, though I have played the start on PC and on the XOX HDR makes that mountain scene much better. Which mode keeps a locked frame rate the best? iirc most of the info a while ago said that the enriched mode gave the best consistent performance and visuals balance.

EDIT: yes it looks like 4k enriched mode is the best way to play it. The native 4k non enriched mode has reduced graphics.
 
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Tomb Raider looked great to me on One X I recently played through it and cannot say I found any of it looking like a 360 game. The HDR and colours on my OLED looked great.....
 
Hi all

Well got my new Xbox One X Normal edition to test it out against my Xbox One X Scorpion Edition for sound fan noise levels.

The Xbox One X Normal edition is a lot quieter than the Scorpion Edition but you can still here it but not as much also what I did notice is that the fans ramp up and down in the same places on both consoles in the same certain parts of the games so this was normal which I was not to sure about but is quieter at doing so on the Normal edition.

The other difference is the Normal edition hard drive you can here it accessing the data meaning you can here the heads moving but its not loud but can be herd and for the Scorpion Edition you can just here the HD but its very hard to hear it (see videos to hear it) not a major issue because
remember this is a test playing games in a quiet room at night with no sound to compare. But saying that the Scorpion Edition fan was like a hair dryer so it was hard to hair anyway.

The tests where done from cold In the videos I posted below so the consoles did not have time to warm up, I did notice a littile more sound when playing on the Normal edition after 2 hours of playing wolfenstein II but the Scorpion Edition was even louder than the videos I posted.

To the videos (Please turn up your volumes as you need to hear it for full effect otherwise they sound the same)

Xbox One X Scorpion Edition (First 12 Sec Dashboard - 12Sec to 1min in game - 1min to 1min 5 sec Dashboard)
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Xbox One X Normal edition (First 12 Sec Dashboard - 12Sec to 1min in game - 1min to 1min 6 sec Dashboard)
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what are your thoughts ?

also thinking of getting a SSD external for the games as some seem to take a littile to long anyone recommend a enclosure as I was going for a Samsung or Crucial drive, and thoughts on this

thanks
 
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They use Radial fans so will never be quite. Mine spins up in the more graphically intense games and is audiable. I have the 8TB Xbox game drive attached to mine which makes far more noise than the internal drive but works well..
 
MOOGLEYS said:
They use Radial fans so will never be quite. Mine spins up in the more graphically intense games and is audiable. I have the 8TB Xbox game drive attached to mine which makes far more noise than the internal drive but works well..
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yep I understand that but you have to be honest the scorpion edition sounds twice as loud as the normal edition in the same games, to me it sounds like the fans are spinning twice as fast. I wonder if this has something to do with different cpu thermals as not every cpu are the same and have a tolerance to pass and if the scorpion edition has a higher heat chip compared to the normal edition that I have.
 
The reason the PS4 ramps up in cutscenes/menus is because those particular areas run an unlocked frame rate, hence it goes nuts.

Truth
 
MOOGLEYS said:
They use Radial fans so will never be quite. Mine spins up in the more graphically intense games and is audiable. I have the 8TB Xbox game drive attached to mine which makes far more noise than the internal drive but works well..
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I found laying the 4TB Expansion Seagate drive horizontally on top of some soft material changed a noisy intrusive drive into absolutely silent. I wish I had tried it on the 8TB too before returning it. Seriously night and day difference between vertical and horizontal. Might be worth a try.
 
Its been discussed many times (the loud fan). Each One x has unique voltage requirements and manages it itself. Some will need more power whilst some will need less, the nature of the silicon lottery.

The ones which need more power will in turn be louder and hotter. Nothing wrong with it as such but just the way it was designed. Both of mine are silent.
 
KingDazza said:
I found laying the 4TB Expansion Seagate drive horizontally on top of some soft material changed a noisy intrusive drive into absolutely silent. I wish I had tried it on the 8TB too before returning it. Seriously night and day difference between vertical and horizontal. Might be worth a try.
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I have it laying horizontal with some small rubber feet. It’s in the cupboard so not too bad...

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