All of the 360 drives are loud. All the fans are loud, including the benq drive (which I also have), you can hear the damn thing spin. Every cd/dvd rom drive that spins that fast is audible and tiny 60mm fans are loud, your 360 isn’t special. You are.

This article also ignores that fact, even if the fans spin slower, it does nothing to alleviate the drive noise and what does upgrading the gpu to a 65nm process gonna do to make the drives quieter?

* Near total silence – 0 dB
* A whisper – 15 dB
* Normal conversation – 60 dB
* A lawnmower – 90 dB
* A car horn – 110 dB
* A rock concert or a jet engine – 120 dB
* A gunshot or firecracker – 140 dB

If the 360 produces 60db (according to the article patrick linked) and you can’t hear it then your deaf and should get your ears checked.

Anything over 85db can cause hearing loss, so how much louder does the 360 need to be to be considered loud? Since your already hearing impaired, its irrelevant.

My 360 has a BenQ drive, maybe that accounts for it, maybe it doesn’t. You can keep arguing with me about a system you’ve never heard, I’ve got nothing but time.

My 360 isn’t loud ^_^

It’s interesting you mention that. The reason is because the PS3 will have to spin at 8x, as opposed to the blu-ray 2x – hence it will be louder. The drive is meant to be the main contention for the loud 360 – a 12x DVD drive is louder than 2x. It is necessarily louder, unless there’s extenssive padding, which isn’t possible.

I don’t think anyone is saying the 360 is loud when it’s on the dashboard. Anyway, I’m out of this convo, since it seems to be one of those never-ending ones.

You live in world where all the ‘coincidences’ seem to a make you look like a forum warrior. Play the new Conan MMO if you want to be an internet hero.

The 360 is loud. Its whiney. And if it could type it would probably hit the ‘Submit Comment’ a lot more than you too. If that was possible. My PS3 I am sitting 2 feet in front of and its dead silent except for 10 seconds of boot up process.

The only time it will ever get loud is if you are upscaling DVD’s to 1080i/p and then it is only moderately louder than normal. Every Xbox 360 I’ve been around was a noisy devil and one of the reasons, the RRoD being the primary reason, I didn’t buy one. Forces Unleashed and Resident Evil 5 were the only games I cared about for next gen… and the Xbox was cheaper. PS3 won the day because of build quality.

And as far as the ps3 goes, I’m simply passing along what he said. I couldn’t comment on that as I don’t own a PS3. He works for a company that does tech support for playstation so he’d know a hell of a lot more on the subject than you do.

Your opinion of the matter doesn’t effect my console, I’m afraid.

You’ve never heard these 360s, I don’t see how you think you know how they sound.

Thus, in comparison, the Xbox 360 is generally louder. In fact, most believe it is louder than the PS2, the Wii, the Xbox and many consoles before it.

All LC needed have done to support his case is to provide some sources: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2066860,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/04/shutting-up-your-xbox-360/
And if you were to search the internet you would find many forum topics exclaiming that the Xbox 360 is loud.

So it might not be loud, but it is reported to be louder.