Re: Watching media PC to TV

On 26 Mar, 00:56, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yup. It's louder than an xbox1 when not spinning a disk, and a right
noisy fecker if it is.

Some people apparently don't notice it. I assume they're either deaf
or they have a semi-mythical quiet xbox.

        Cheers - Jaimie
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Atlantic with a verb in his mouth."                     -- Mark Twain


I've an Xbox running XBMC and it comfortably outclasses *any* other
media device I've seen. It's really that good.

The full skinny on (original, not 360) Xbox noise:
1) XBMC is capable of spinning down cooling fans and under normal
operation will run them at under 10% of full load, which is pretty
quiet as standard.
2) Xboxes come in 3 variants, depending on how old they are. None
have CPU fans, all have a 70mm case fan. V1.1 had a noisy 40mm GPU
fan, versions 1.4 and 1.6 changed this to a passive cooler.
3) The GPU fan, if fitted, can be swapped for an old northbridge
passive cooler and some thermal adhesive tape, which makes it much,
much quieter. Pull off heatsink and fan, clean thermal paste off GPU,
stick on thermal tape and press on a 3 quid northbridge cooler - job
done.
4) The 70mm case fan can be swapped for a drop in quiet replacement,
or with a bit of jiggery pokery with a dremel can be swapped out for
a standard silent 80mm case fan.


I've a v1.1 with passive GPU cooling, quiet case fan and it's about as
quiet as my Sky+ box in operation with XBMC. If you're really
sensitive to noise, you can ask the HDD to spin down during playback,
too. If you're upgrading the HDD then it'd make sense to get a quiet
5400rpm drive to put in there.

Ric
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