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Old 21 May 2008, 12:44 PM
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Unhappy 360 DVD drive noise

My 360 (Premium HDMI) is placed below my TV. When playing GTA the DVD drive is permanently like a flymo to the extent you need the TV volume very high just to hear the in game audio. Is everyone experiencing this ? The noise is so annoying I'm considering a PS3 just to get some peace.

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Old 21 May 2008, 12:58 PM
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Some games on 360 have lots of drive access and are noisy - Mass Effect for example is ridiculous. The solution is to turn up the volume on the telly.
Old 21 May 2008, 01:22 PM
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For goodness sake dont buy a ps3 biggest waste of £300 quid ever...
I made this mistake.

The only reason a ps3 will be quiter than your 360 is you wont be playing on it due to lack of decent games.
Old 21 May 2008, 01:24 PM
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Old 21 May 2008, 01:53 PM
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It's amazing how much more you hear with headphones! (unless you have your surround sound system up really high!)
Old 21 May 2008, 05:35 PM
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I had a launch console that RROD on me. While it was being repaired, they changed the drive to one of these:



It's 100x quieter than my original Samsung drive.
Old 21 May 2008, 05:41 PM
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I'm still on my launch day premium and now wish it would die so I could get a quieter version
Old 21 May 2008, 09:20 PM
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I do find that the sound on GTA seems to be quieter than normal, I have to turn my amp up quite a bit more. Whereas if I play a downloaded demo like Grid it comes up really loud and I have to turn it down.
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its a bit of a pain IMO that sound levels in games don't seam to be balanced, my tv does a good job of auto leveling stuff, but if the game is half decent its always getting played with the 5.1 surround on, and the separate amp for that, will not auto level everything

i must have been lucky with my 360 as i don't consider it noisy at all, infact i can hear my man desktop pcs case fans in the next room over the sound of the 360 drive
Old 24 May 2008, 08:22 AM
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I had a release date 360 core console,which was as noisey as hell.But ive just upgraded to the elite which has a different drive in it,its much quieter!
Old 24 May 2008, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by rik1471
I had a launch console that RROD on me. While it was being repaired, they changed the drive to one of these:



It's 100x quieter than my original Samsung drive.
well if they replaced it with nothing .. it is going to be much quieter
Old 25 May 2008, 06:59 PM
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I was just playing GTA and the feckin RROD lite up

Error code E74

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If its 3 red lights then its covered by microsofts 3 YEAR warrenty!!! just call em!
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