A noisy Xbox360

CiDeRmAn

Anyone else have this racket going on?
Is it a problem or is it normal?
My Xbox when playing DVDs sounds quite normal but when switching back to the desktop or playing a game it sounds like a Hovercraft under pressure, with fans turned up to 11.
Honestly it sounds like the cooling fans inside are working overtime and I just want to know is that the experience of everyone?
I was lucky enough to get one of the first machines in the country but could this have been a curse rather than a blessing, have a got an inferior machine, without some fix of a later batch of consoles?

Please leave your own experiences here.

kaisersose77

from xbox-scene

EGM (via 1up) posted a new interesting and pretty 'aggresive' interview with Peter Moore, the Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Retail Sales and Marketing for Microsoft's Home and Entertainment Division (translation: He has to make Xbox 360 the #1 console in the world). Here's an excerpt:

* EGM: The machine's awfully loud, isn't it?
* PM: Hmm...you've got a lot going on there. I mean, I have not noticed it, and you know one of the cores will shut down when you're watching a movie on it, so I have noticed [the noise] once I get into gameplay. When it first cranks up, like a lot of things, the fans get going and off you go, but you've got a lot of power, you've got a lot of heat, and what you're hearing is the drive or the fans maybe--those things have to work. Again, that's another thing that nobody seems to be concerned about.


Of course there is stuff that'll be fixed in latter version of the 360, its just a price you have to pay for buying one first. But i doubt it'll get much quieter.

xanthor

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Anyone else have this racket going on?
Is it a problem or is it normal?
My Xbox when playing DVDs sounds quite normal but when switching back to the desktop or playing a game it sounds like a Hovercraft under pressure, with fans turned up to 11.
Honestly it sounds like the cooling fans inside are working overtime and I just want to know is that the experience of everyone?
I was lucky enough to get one of the first machines in the country but could this have been a curse rather than a blessing, have a got an inferior machine, without some fix of a later batch of consoles?

Please leave your own experiences here.

How new is yours?? After the fan(s?) in mine had cycled however many times, it did become quieter......

Did you make sure that it's not right up against a wall/back of a shelf??
In order to keep the heat down, it needs a certain amount of air circulating behind it.

However it seems unlikely that any (first generation version at least) 360's will ever be as quiet as the last one, it definately runs hot.

CiDeRmAn

How new is it? Can't really say!
The machine is out in the open, no vents covered and plenty of room, have enouh experience of overheating Dreamcasts to know how to treat these babies.
But its a real pain in the arse having to turn the volume up on the TV so Ican hear the game over the roar of the engines in the 360!
Honestly its very very intrusive and thats from a guy who has been around some noisy PC cooling fans, not to mention the old PS2s drone.
My brothers console seems much quieter and having heard so many tales of these things sucumbing to some sort of heat death, thats not the entropic one but the one due to the 360 having a form of heat stroke.
Along with the lack of battery backup for the time and date the inclusion of jet turbines in my 360s coolant sysytem is another way how MS have screwed my gaming experience.

Now thats typed I think I can hear the MS stormtroopers at the door, better let them in, it costs a fortune to replace those things!

JacoStanley

Comforts me to know that I can hear how powerful it is.

Alnilam

can't say I notice the noise off of my 360, or for that matter do I ever remember hearing unacceptable noise from either of my PS2's are ye sure you's guys aren't part like (insert animal with incredibly sensitive hearing name here)

Ri_Nollaig

...a bat


no i think the 360 is too loud too, but most gaming PC's sound like engines too, till you get some good air/water cooling system into them. I dont really notice it too much when playing a game tho

digitaldr

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Clank

Honestly how close do you guys sit to your 360s?
Im only about 6/7 feet from it, I can hear it, but switch 5.1 on and its gone.

Think about whats actually in the box, theres a whole lot to cool down.
(Its mainly loud though when accessing discs, PGR3 for example.)

GrumPy

It's less noisy then both my ps2, and xbox1 (when none of the consoles are reading a 12x disc) but stick a 360 game in, and it takes off:D only loud when reading dvds that require the full speed of the drive to operate, playing xbox1 games, or watching a dvd, ps2 is noiser then it.

lafors

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Along with the lack of battery backup for the time and date the inclusion of jet turbines in my 360s coolant sysytem is another way how MS have screwed my gaming experience.

I don't understand why some peoples 360 is doing that (losing date/time) and some aren't when plugged out. Mine doesn't.

And as for sounding like a jumbo jet, well I only really notice it when it boot up with a game in it.....
you could tape the exhauts closed, but that would make it an expensive mini table

Tank Top Fever!

My 360 is beside my pc, and the pc is about twice as load as it. Noise isn't an issue with mine

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Anyone else have this racket going on?
Is it a problem or is it normal?
My Xbox when playing DVDs sounds quite normal but when switching back to the desktop or playing a game it sounds like a Hovercraft under pressure, with fans turned up to 11.
Honestly it sounds like the cooling fans inside are working overtime and I just want to know is that the experience of everyone?
I was lucky enough to get one of the first machines in the country but could this have been a curse rather than a blessing, have a got an inferior machine, without some fix of a later batch of consoles?

Please leave your own experiences here.

I think its an issue with the first batch of consoles released in Ireland. Your machine makes way too much noise on idle, sitting at the dash, where as mine, is really quiet but when yea play a game the fans speed up but they dont get so loud that yea have to turn up the audio.
Wierd ciderman, I would ask for a new console if I where you...

Furp

I don't think its the fans that make the most noise I think its the DVD drive, at all times in the Dashboard, Playing Arcade games etc there is low noise from my 360, the fans are on but not too loud, when watching a DVD the drive is most likely playing at 1X speed but when playing games from disc I think the drive spins up to a much faster speed and is a lot louder.

The reason I think this that when playing the downloadable demos of 360 games like Fight Night, Kameo, Need for Speed, Condemned, the 360 is nowhere near as loud as when playing a game from disc.

FrankGrimes

Just opened the door to the cabinet I have it in last night and have to say the noise did strike me, I wasn't looking out for it but it did make me think that I'm lucky I'm using this in my own house where I can put the sound as loud as I want to drown it out, cos if you had to worry about other people you'd have it low down and the crazy noise this thing generates would be very very noticeable.

Bill had said during the year that they would make sure it is quiet....sounds like that fell by the wayside. The noise is a much bigger issue for someone like me who bought it primarily for the media side of things. class system apart from that though.

KTRIC

The day I got mine (launch day) I was really really p!ssed off because it was so noisey. I even rang Gamestop and asked to bring it back. After the 2nd or 3rd day it got quieter and quieter. I think it regulates the fan speed depending on the room conditions.

BTW, mine is free standing on a glass shelf, with nothing around it.