Well, yes and no. The biggest problem in trying to cool the XBox is that you have a limited amount of space. The first thing that I would normally do is try to put in a resistor or a potentometer to control the fan speeds, but because everything inside the XBox is so tightly packed together, there's no room, unless you mod the case. (While I'm game for some modding, I'm not much into modding the case.) At least with a PC case (unless you go with a super-small microATX), there's room for 120mm cans, quiet power supplies, etc. (incidentally, my MythTV machine, which is a frontend and backend also serves as a Samba server, so it's big, quiet, and looks pretty good).
The rear exhaust fan is a noisy 60mm fan - some people have had success finding a quieter 60mm fan, and shaving off two of the side parts (where the screw holes are), and mounting that. However, even a "quiet" 60mm fan is a lot noisier than almost any 120mm fan you can find, plus a 120mm fan moves a lot more air at a slower speed. It is quite possible that they have addressed the noise issue with later XBoxes - I have a 1.0 model (which reminds me, I need to check my serial number and order the replacement power cord). In the 1.0 model, there is also a heatsink/fan on the GPU chip, which I replaced with a Zalman Northbridge heatsink (no fan). This quieted the unit down a bit, but the 60mm fan is still pretty noisy. If you're watching a show or playing a game, you don't notice it as much, but if you hit a quiet spot (say of a movie, or if you're leaving it running, but not doing anything with it), you'll hear it. -- Joe --- David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But remeber, the XBox is just another PC. You can > quiet it down much > the same as quieting down a normal PC. > > That said, I don't have an XBox so I have never > tried, but this is my > understanding. > > Dave > > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:37:11 +1100, Dmitri Colebatch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joe Votour wrote: > > > > >If you're looking for quiet, then re-consider the > > >XBox. > > > > > >My XBox is by far the loudest PC that I have. It > is > > >louder than (in order from loudest to quietest) > my > > >laptop (when the fan is running), my desktop and > my > > >MythTV machine. > > > > > > > > wow.. thanks for telling me. goes to show > assumptions should never be > > relied upon! > > > > cheers > > dim > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > -- > GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH > > I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me > direct. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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