News - PC firm offers Ultra-Quiet Xbox 360

[Breezey]

but you would have £120 saved to have another go at it :/

Or do the sensible thing and take it back to the shop.

Edit: o btw lads ive just noticed £306 is the EX VAT price and its actually £351, id love to know who came up with the pricing, quitepc you have made my day.

[CaseyV9]

I was really interested in this case for the 360. UNTIL I READ THIS

So if this case offers no real solution to the 360's heat problem, is this value? Installing games to your 360's HDD makes a bit of difference to the noise.

Tell you what, Bend over and I'll shaft you just as well (Please note this offers is only availble to the ladies)

[TAKTAK]

The more i come back to this thread, the less decent the plausible is in my mind, to start off with, yeah it was on the pricey side, but some people would pay it.

Now, is there really any point?

you can get a 360 as a backup instead of having the warranty...
It is actually £50 more that i originally thought...

The only ones that it could appeal to, are lazy people with too much money TBH...

But still, it is only a service that they provide, i don't think they expect it to sell oodles TBH...

[transylvanic]

Man, I expected this thing to be sleek and in some way different.

So the selling point is if you made your console case larger and installed bigger fans, it will be quieter and cooler. Well how about I just commit an entire room to the console then? Blimey that's chunky.

I have to agree entirely with the earlier comment that MS is trying to get away with terrible design. We should all hang our heads in shame over the demise of the Dreamcast. That was some smooth engineering right there.

[CaseyV9]

The more i come back to this thread, the less decent the plausible is in my mind, to start off with, yeah it was on the pricey side, but some people would pay it.

Now, is there really any point?

you can get a 360 as a backup instead of having the warranty...
It is actually £50 more that i originally thought...

The only ones that it could appeal to, are lazy people with too much money TBH...

But still, it is only a service that they provide, i don't think they expect it to sell oodles TBH...

It is a con. MS pay for selling you a defective product. So along comes a company that says "I know, you pay to fix it. We will turn that slim media/Gaming machine in your living room into a big thing that gets in the way." Consoles are just turn on and play. For the money mentioned here, Is not much less than building a cheap gaming pc. And you do not void your warranty. Unless you are the type of person who would pay PC World stupid ammounts of money to upgrade your ram.

[transylvanic]

Unless you are the type of person who would pay PC World stupid ammounts of money to upgrade your ram.

PC World have extremely knowledgeable staff, who are far better than us mere mortals at finding the perfect angle for sliding in your ram. They also sprinkle some of that aforementioned magic dust on your pc and give it a good luck kiss.

[educatedfool]

TBH if it was 60-80 cheaper it would be alot better. The Lian Li case, while bigger looks far better than the standard Xbox 360. The standard 360 doesn't fit in with anything else in the room, it just stands out like a sore thumb, and makes as much noise as the owner of said thumb + it is an awkward shape and you fear putting it anywhere that looks nice incase of the RROD.
I don't watch movies on my Xbox 360 anymore because I hate having it on.

[Hansink]

Totally useless, as they won't replace the drive, which makes most of the noise anyway. Installing games on the HD is much more useful.

[educatedfool]

Totally useless, as they won't replace the drive, which makes most of the noise anyway. Installing games on the HD is much more useful.

Kudos for reading the article.


They use acoustic foam to reduce the noise.

[JK Ferret]

PC World have extremely knowledgeable staff, who are far better than us mere mortals at finding the perfect angle for sliding in your ram.

This here line made me laugh for both good and bad reasons. I know someone who works in PC World, and even he says the vast majority of staff are useless dips who know naff all about technology.

But the innuendo is just delicious


I don't know why everyone complains about noisy 360s, I've never had a problem with mine, pre- or post-console update; never installed a game either, so that wouldn't contribute.

[aidanjt]

Kudos for reading the article.


They use acoustic foam to reduce the noise.

No volume of acoustic foam can silence an obtrusive optical drive like the one shipped with the 360. The drive itself acts like a resonance chamber to throw noise out of it's tray ejection point.

[aidanjt]

I don't know why everyone complains about noisy 360s, I've never had a problem with mine, pre- or post-console update; never installed a game either, so that wouldn't contribute.

The biggest problem I had with 360 noise was the twin rear fans. They sound like they're powered by a bunch of hamsters chained to the wheel forced to run for eternity, and every so often one of them dies and flies off the wheel, or at the very least it sounds like cheapass fans without any bearings worth speaking of. I don't even understand how the acustics of it is so bad. Whoever picked the mechanical components for it should be chopping up rocks in Siberia.

[Biscuit]

Microsoft really should get in touch with a company like scythe or thermalright for the development of the cooling for their consoles... although i think they quite like the fact that they have a tendancy to brake and people have to buy whole new consoles every few years.

[Breezey]

There is a waterblock out for the 360 and with a 120mm fan at the back this case looks good for it.

[JimmyBoy]

hopefully next time around ms will have learnt their lesson and build a console from parts that cost more than a fiver!

as for this thread, whats on offer here wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt so overpriced! the 360's noise is only slightly annoying when watching a quiet scene on a dvd, over than that i personally cant hear much over the machine gun fire / sounds of people being brutally being murdered

[CaseyV9]

I bet all this is down to the first XBox. Eveyone moaned at how big and ugly that was. So with the next one they tried to slim it down like the PS2.

I've been playing Lost Odessey today. I am really suprised how quiet my 360 is. I have the game installed to my HDD. When the 360 DVD spins a disk it is noisy. But to be fair my PC gets very noisy when it's DVD drive spins.

I just cannot see why you would seriously want to go to the touble of spending extra money and voiding your warranty for the sake of noisy DVD drive.