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I'm with you. My PS3 is pretty quiet (I've got a launch 60GB...not sure if that matters) but all 3 of my 360's have been unbelievably loud including my wife's slim system. I have to bump up my volume just to cover that stuff up, even when games are installed to the HD.
 
My phat PS3 is starting to get louder now, needs a good clean up inside but my 360 slim is quiet as a mouse, had a marathon Red Dead Redemption sesh last night and I still couldn't hear it when sitting on dash afterwards.
 
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My PS3 and my 360 S are about the same in terms of volume. I'd say the 360s is slightly more noticeable because it's got a higher pitched tone. Oddly though, my PS3 gets really loud from time to time. I guess at some point I'll have to open it up and clean / redo the thermal grease.

I'd say the next revision of both will be nigh on silent though. Just a case of getting the internals die shrunk enough to make it easy to deal with the heat output.
 
wait what? Y'all want kick ass graphics, game play and a silent machine? Not gonna happen packing millions of transistors into a small space = massive heat and heatsinks only are not going to cut it.

I have all three consoles and I can't hear any of the fans on them.... guess I am lucky and btw I would gladly trade some fan noise to be able to play my favorite games on the console...
 
K10 said:
one thing i missed about classic consoles (NES, genesis) is that they're dead silent. i can't see making the ps3/xbox the media hub of my living room until they're dead silent. i guess you could hide your console inside a credenza and silence it a bit.
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I had a 40GB PS3 and you couldn't hear it unless your ear was about 12" from it. Obviously when your gaming or watching a movie it may get louder but the volume is up anyways.

The new PS3 Slims are very quiet also. The Blu-Ray functionality will probably work well for you. Plus it's got the best games available so that part is good too.
 
I just hit my fat40 with 25PSI + a small vacuum since it had been spinning up soon after powering on and never spinning down.

It's now silent again during transcoding/HD playback and doesn't spin up nearly as often while playing GT5. Perfectly usable as a media centre.

There was a ton of cigarette-stained dustgoo removed in the process and I'm sure there's more in there, ready to kill my system. It's done 3 years for me now and that was the first time I really tried to clean it.

My PC gets cleaned every other month but I don't care to take a PS3 apart. Just run it till it dies, like a Honda; not a good one.
 
YeuEmMaiMai said:
wait what? Y'all want kick ass graphics, game play and a silent machine? Not gonna happen packing millions of transistors into a small space = massive heat and heatsinks only are not going to cut it.

I have all three consoles and I can't hear any of the fans on them.... guess I am lucky and btw I would gladly trade some fan noise to be able to play my favorite games on the console...
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My problem isn't the 360's fan - it's that horrible DVD drive, which spins the disk even if you supposedly have the game installed.
 
Domingo said:
My problem isn't the 360's fan - it's that horrible DVD drive, which spins the disk even if you supposedly have the game installed.
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No, it doesn't. The only time it ever spins the disk is on the dashboard, and once when the game boots.

Outside of that, it's absolutely still (I know this for a fact as a friend of mine has a modded 360 with a clear window installed into the top of the DVD drive). If you're hearing something when an installed game is playing, you're hearing a fan.
 
You guys must have terrible luck or supersonic hearing. I barely even notice my 360 is turned on minus the green light.
 
Strange my Jasper Elite 360 is pretty quite, though I do have my games installed. I never, ever hear it ramp up.
 
My 360 is extremely quiet, though I have my games installed on the HD, so I never have to hear the DVD drive (which really is the loudest thing on the console). When you have a game installed the drive spins up only when you initially start, so it can verify the disk before allowing you to play.
 
Maybe it varies per game, but I know Castlevania spins up my DVD's (it's the airplane sound...not the high pitched fan whine) before every single new level and keeps 'em spinning for much longer than needed even when I have both disks supposedly installed.
The high pitched fan is annoying, but tolerable most of the time. The airplane noise is just full on frustrating, though. The fan is really only a major issue in games loaded with dialogue.
 
Domingo said:
Maybe it varies per game, but I know Castlevania spins up my DVD's (it's the airplane sound...not the high pitched fan whine) before every single new level and keeps 'em spinning for much longer than needed even when I have both disks supposedly installed.
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Interesting. I don't have Castlevania, but I can say all my games do not do that. The drive will spin up once and you never hear it again while playing. I don't know why a game would need to spin up each new level, if everything is installed to the hard-drive, but hopefully that sort of thing is rare.
 
ps3 slim 160 is dead silent, still brand new though.


I couldn't bearing watching movies on my OLD 360, the drive itself was louder than the 12v 120mm and 80mm fans I have to cool my laptop.
 
PS3 slim is very quiet. Being right next to me on my desk, my typing on this apple wired keyboard is louder. Hell, moving my mouse around my desk mat is louder.
 
PS3 and 360 are both loud, I have owned a 20gb and 40gb PS3 before and now have a 160gb. I had a launch core 360, jasper arcade 360 and my neighbor has a 250gb slim 360. All of the machines are loud.
They are alot quieter then the old gaming pc I had with a 8800gt tho LOL
 
My new Slim 160GB PS3 is near silent. My old 20GB Launch 360 was super loud. Good thing its getting replaced.
 
My Elite 360 model isn't really noisy. I can hear the drive running when playing from a disc, but it's not that loud. Moderate volume on the TV easily drowns it out. The 360 fan isn't noticeable at couch distance 7 or 8 feet away. It's on an open shelf below the TV, so nothing is being muffled.
 
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