When playing HD-DVDs or movies from DVD (particularly high def stuff which
uses more CPU/GPU power) which do not spin up the DVD-ROM drive to its
super-noisy speed, you can hear the fans start to spin up and they get pretty
loud in their own right. They are the loudest thing in the room compared to
2 PCs and 1xDVR box - all at the same time are quieter.
Even the fan in the HD-DVD drive is stupidly loud. Why does it even NEED a
fan in the HD-DVD drive? That's insane.
Alex.
On Monday 26 May 2008 18:37:00 PRoPHeTiZeR wrote:
> It's not the fans that make the 360 loud
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xbox@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Xbox@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex
> Atkin Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 10:49 AM
> To: Xbox@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Xbox] Re: Intercoolers....
>
> On Monday 26 May 2008 00:58:43 austinblake111 wrote:
> > --- In Xbox@yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mamemike@...> wrote:
> > > Hey I'm sure this has been asked in the past but haven't seen it in
> >
> > the
> >
> > > few months I've been here... Besides adding a water cooler system to
> > > the 360 what/which cooling system is the better one/s? I've heard
> >
> > some
> >
> > > are basicly worthless but just wondered what the group thinks...
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > look theyre all worthless no other one is better theyre almost well
> > just the same no difference....but seriously i noticed that the
> > intercoolers break easely so itll mess up the 360 so be safe and make
> > sure the fans r always working or itll mess up the system.and your
> > system dont heat up its the fan thats causing it too heat up
> > faster.thatnk you
>
> I'm pretty sure the initial problem with the 360 was dashboard/OS related.
> The fans never seemed to speed up much originally but gradually after
> various dashboard updates they seem to have improved that. These days it
> seems the opposite, they run fast even when barely under load probably in
> the hope that it stave off many peoples 3 red light errors until AFTER the
> 3 year warranty. I notice if you leave the 360 on the marketplace blade
> they seem to go nuts but on a page with no FLASH ads on it, they stay sane.
>
> I do wonder if they deliberately kept them slow to convince us the 360
> ISN'T too loud, which of course it sure is. I just wish they would spend a
> little more and put decent fans INSIDE the 360. The biggest problem is not
> the airflow noise, its the fan operating noise itself and there are
> aftermarket replacements which are known to shift as much/more air but be
> quiter about it - except I have a service contract so I can't modify my
> 360.
>
> Its a PITA that the 360 could have been perfect if Microsoft had not cut
> corners to save money.
>
> If the HD had been mandatory then the DVD-ROM drive could have spun slower
> which again would decrease the noise dramatically. What really annoys me
> is when my old 360 DVD-ROM drive had problems loading content from DVD it
> would spin down slower to improve its chances of reading, but it didn't
> seem to take much longer to read at that slower speed so I question if the
> DVD-ROM drive needs to spin this fast to begin with.
>
> Alex.
>
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