I got an xbox the day they came out as well, and noise isn't really an issue. Especially when you price point a pc with the capacity of the xbox and noise of the xbox :)
The best thing that could happen to an xbox would be for someone to get it to boot off the network so you could remove the hard drive, do a net boot and put in a quieter fan and also convert to more convection cooling rather than forced air. On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:45:56 -0800 (PST), Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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). >
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