[mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

Joe Votour joevph at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 10 23:26:14 EST 2005


It seems to depend on the particular XBox that you
have really, or more accurately, the hardware version.

The version 1.0 XBox came with a heatsink on the GPU
(the nVidia graphics processor) that had a small 40mm
fan on it.  I found this to be very noisy.  Version
1.1 (and perhaps later?) units don't have the fan,
they have a larger heatsink, thus leaving only the
60mm fan on the back (which is also a bit noisy).

I've cracked open my XBox a few times and I've removed
the GPU heatsink/fan, replacing them with a Zalman
northbridge heatsink.  It's definitely an improvement.

Of course, it also depends on how far the XBox is from
you, and whether or not it's enclosed in something
(like an entertainment center).

-- Joe

--- Andrew Ziobro <aziobro at valleygreen.biz> wrote:

> Kalle Pokki wrote:
> 
> > I have actually never seen a running xbox, as I'm
> not a big fan of 
> > console games. So I'm wondering how quiet the xbox
> really is. It does 
> > contain a hard drive and some cooling fans to my
> knowledge, but are 
> > they close to silent as nobody seems to ever
> mention anything about 
> > their noise?
> 
> Pretty low noise. Fan is variable speed depending on
> heat load. There is 
> a daemon that runs to change the fan speed as the
> CPU heats up. I leave 
> me right next to the TV. Noise is low enough not to
> bother me.
> 
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