Quiet 360s?
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The cooling solution can tend towards silent if it shifts to passive cooling with process shrinks. I don't know what can be done about the DVD drive though. Are quieter DVD drives even produced? AFAIK people looking for quiet PC solutions just pick slower drives or alternative solutions - dumping DVDs to HDD or whatever. That's not an option XB360 is ever likely to embrace, and it seems to me the noisy drive is here to stay.
There was a post by J_Saint on a different thread, I'll post it here as it seems relevant:
Pretty useful piece of info! I checked mine which I thought was a 'falcon' but it does indeed say 203W on the side. So maybe there are quieter 360's out there someplace. I did a quick check at my local bestbuy (they have Crysis for $30 fyi), and from a random check it seemed like they didnt have any of the 175w unit. Anyone seen these in the wild here in southern California? I want to return mine and get one of these, just have to find it somewhere!
I'm holding out for a Falcon Elite as well. It seems like the easiest way to tell if a system is a Falcon is to check the wattage on box sticker. Falcons will be 175W while older systems are 203W.
Pretty useful piece of info! I checked mine which I thought was a 'falcon' but it does indeed say 203W on the side. So maybe there are quieter 360's out there someplace. I did a quick check at my local bestbuy (they have Crysis for $30 fyi), and from a random check it seemed like they didnt have any of the 175w unit. Anyone seen these in the wild here in southern California? I want to return mine and get one of these, just have to find it somewhere!
amen to that, personally quietness is the single most important consideration in a pc (a nice screen is second)
whilst quiet fans etc do help, the best method is to move the pc away or failing that enclose it in a box (ventilation), in my last house i stuck it in the other room, ie i drilled a hole through the wall to thread the cables through. Then at night all youre left with is the sound of the lcd monitor, still it could be worse, it could be a CRT
Some people with Arcade 360s found out that though the outside of the box said 203W the adaptor itself had 175W. So could be wrong.
Is it a big difference from the other drives? I think I got the Hitachi one.
All the falcon models got the BenQ drive?
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I thought the read speed was 8x, or is it 12x for single layer and dual layer?, also is this the same in all dvd drives?. I don't see why it would make such as big difference to the sound.
360 drives have an advertised read speed of 12x
in single layer, the average read speed across the whole disk is around 9x
in dual layer, this reduced to 8x, and considering average read speed across the whole disk, is further reduced to around 6x
well, the faster you spin, the more vibration (and larger magnitude of vibration) it makes and thus makes more sound.
The sound made also should not scale linearly with dirve speed. (although I don't exactly have proof for this, I'm pretty sure)
It's too bad that the nifty Kenwood "Zen" TrueX tech that was in those crazy 72X CDROMs of yesteryear never went anywhere. They were such quiet CDROMs and were stunningly fast. Spun at the equivalent of a 10-12X CLV CDROM but delivered an effective 72X speed by splitting the laser beam and reading more than one spot on the disk at a time.
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=6084
I had one of the 52X versions and it was really a sweet drive, as long as you were using regular CDs and not CDRs. It was not good at reading CDRs at all. But wow was that thing fast at reading a pressed disk, and oh so quiet. I was pumped to get my hands on one of their DVD drives, but they never released any in the end...
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=6084
I had one of the 52X versions and it was really a sweet drive, as long as you were using regular CDs and not CDRs. It was not good at reading CDRs at all. But wow was that thing fast at reading a pressed disk, and oh so quiet. I was pumped to get my hands on one of their DVD drives, but they never released any in the end...
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I've built a little egg box enclosure for mine. My only worry now is that it will burn up. Mind you I haven't actually used it since I finished Halo 3.
I have a new Halo 3 xbox its not a Falcon according to the sight test, but ive had about 10 360s before then cause the noise was such a problem for me. The new Halo 360 is 100 times quiter then any previous 360 ive had, sitting at the dashboard the xbox is almost silent. My cable box makes way more sound somthing i was shocked at, I had no idea a HD DVR cable box makes any sound. The best way to compair how quite it is would be to put a game in your Wii and start it. The 360 at the dashboard makes WAY less sound then the Wii running a game. Put a game into the 360 and with a BenQ drive the level of noise barely raises. Now this 360 has the DC brushless fans which are the main reason why people hear the xbox but even these are almost silent, this 360 also has the BenQ drive which compaired to an older drive is amazing I have to put my ear up to the unit to hear it. One reason for needing a quite system is I play with almost no sound at all so I dont wake up my family. I work graveyard so on dyas off I play all night. My cousin just got a new Falcon 360 elite with some different fans then the DC brushless (ill have to look again I forgot which fans they are) and take every thing I said above and now you have truly quite 360 this thing makes no sound at all.
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