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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4648610" data-attributes="member: 20741">I can't frakkin' believe it.I plugged the Elite 360 in last night, excited to turn it on and marvel at the peace and relative quiet of my new, noise reduced Xbox 360.No plan survives contact with the enemy.&nbsp; And this plan fell to shreds in 2 seconds as about 43db of fan noise ripped it into little itsy bitsy pieces and buried it alive.It's LOUDER. My premium unit, with HDMI, manfactured in late September 2007 - should be quieter.&nbsp; But it isn't. I didn't think it was possible, but it is perceptibly LOUDER than my release unit.In fact, it is so loud, I can barely hear the DVD spin up during game play, that's how loud the twin 70mm fans are on this unit.Install to disk? Tried, no perceptible change in noise level.&nbsp; Unfrakkin' believable, but there it is.The fans were so loud, I believe they may have obscured the chortling sounds my PS3&nbsp; unit was making at the time.I expect that there is a reason this &quot;new&quot; 360 unit was sold by its previous owner and I have now discovered the reason why.&nbsp; I'll be bringing it back to the store on Monday - though I may end up keeping the hard drive.With the $200 in refunded money, I think I will bite the bullet, and buy a Lian-li XB01 and some torx screwdrivers. I'll just mod my original release unit and, using my &quot;new&quot; 120 gig HD, install the hardware in an XB01.The XB01 is designed for the sole purpose of giving the Xbox 360 a new home with a single, much quieter,&nbsp; 120mm fan. It also wraps the DVD unit in some sound insulation - but most people have not experienced reduced noise off of the DVD. The ambient fan noise, however, plummets. And the install to disk option in November 08 &quot;Xbox Experience&quot; update will remove the sound of the DVD. So... the XB01 should fix all of this.Plan B: <img src="http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/lian-li-pc-xb01-review-installation-guide/26.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />If somebody has some other advice or any further ideas, I'd be happy to hear em.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 4648610, member: 20741"] I can't frakkin' believe it. I plugged the Elite 360 in last night, excited to turn it on and marvel at the peace and relative quiet of my new, noise reduced Xbox 360. No plan survives contact with the enemy. And this plan fell to shreds in 2 seconds as about 43db of fan noise ripped it [I]into little itsy bitsy pieces and buried it alive[/I]. It's [B]LOUDER[/B]. My premium unit, with HDMI, manfactured in late September 2007 - should be quieter. But it isn't. I didn't think it was possible, but it is perceptibly LOUDER than my release unit. In fact, it is so loud, I can barely hear the DVD spin up during game play, that's how loud the twin 70mm fans are on this unit. Install to disk? Tried, no perceptible change in noise level. Unfrakkin' believable, but there it is. The fans were so loud, I believe they may have obscured the chortling sounds my PS3 unit was making at the time. I expect that there is a reason this "new" 360 unit was sold by its previous owner and I have now discovered the reason why. I'll be bringing it back to the store on Monday - though I may end up keeping the hard drive. With the $200 in refunded money, I think I will bite the bullet, and buy a Lian-li XB01 and some torx screwdrivers. I'll just mod my original release unit and, using my "new" 120 gig HD, install the hardware in an XB01. The XB01 is designed for the sole purpose of giving the Xbox 360 a new home with a single, much quieter, 120mm fan. It also wraps the DVD unit in some sound insulation - but most people have not experienced reduced noise off of the DVD. The ambient fan noise, however, plummets. And the install to disk option in November 08 "Xbox Experience" update will remove the sound of the DVD. So... the XB01 should fix all of this. [B]Plan B: [/B] [IMG]http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/lian-li-pc-xb01-review-installation-guide/26.jpg[/IMG] If somebody has some other advice or any further ideas, I'd be happy to hear em. [/QUOTE]

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