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[ZOONAMI]

My comcast box and pc psu fan are several times louder than ps4 pro or xb1s.

And those certainly aren't "jet engines" or "hair dryers." Unless you have your tv on mute I don't really see how it can be a realistic issue.

Electronics get hot and they have fans to cool them down. They do not approach the decibel level of a hair dryer. Its hyperbole. I'm with you op.

 

[rjc571]

You must not have owned a Dreamcast ...

...and we're done here.

 

[Stratostar]

The amount of people taking offense in here is telling. Sorry, but if your console sounds like a jet engine, that's not normal, and it's likely your fault. It's also safe to assume your dwelling looks a lot like this.

 

[AstroLad]

Same here OP. I've never had a console where the noise of it bothered me one bit, though I see a lot of people bring it up on Gaf. Being On an enthusiast forum I just attributed it to that fact.

The only noise I ever looked for honestly was anything sounding broken mechanically or my system eating a disc, other then that I was unbothered.

Loud PS4 is something even more likely to annoy non-enthusiasts as they're not used to their electronics sounding like that. Thankfully it's much better with my Pro now.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Same here OP. I've never had a console where the noise of it bothered me one bit, though I see a lot of people bring it up on Gaf. Being On an enthusiast forum I just attributed it to that fact.

The only noise I ever looked for honestly was anything sounding broken mechanically or my system eating a disc, other then that I was unbothered.

I can assure you that a loud PS4 is far louder than the electronic buzz you'd expect without actually hearing it

I'd give a rough estimate of it being a third of the volume of a hairdryer, which is way too much for a console

 

[mjp2417]

I'm gonna guess that the people complaining about loud consoles are actually doing so because they do in fact have loud consoles.

 

[Marty Chinn]

People who can't understand a console being loud never had a loud Xbox 360. It's amazing how the Xbox 360 Slim and every console they've released since then has been super duper quiet compared to the Xbox 360 being probably the loudest console I've ever owned.

The amount of people taking offense in here is telling. Sorry, but if your console sounds like a jet engine, that's not normal, and it's likely your fault. It's also safe to assume your dwelling looks a lot like this.

This is bullshit.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

The amount of people taking offense in here is telling. Sorry, but if your console sounds like a jet engine, that's not normal, and it's likely your fault. It's also safe to assume your dwelling looks a lot like this.

Victim-blaming ¬¬

 

[eso76]

Some people have to play games in a quiet environment(kids sleeping in the other room, neighbours etc) and the ps4 can be louder than your game.
Also, youre never sure whether your console is just being loud or going to melt.

Since I moved my ps4 from a space open on all four sides to a closed shelf under the TV it becomes very loud after a few minutes and I don't know if it's safe to go on playing.

It was almost completely silent before

 

[ReyVGM]

Not trying to be a dick here -- I've genuinely always wondered this.

What in gods name are you people doing that you can ever hear a console? Are you Buddhist monks living in a lakeside sanctuary? Do you play in a room with 7 sleeping newborn babies with the sound on your TV turned all the way down?

I have NEVER, ever heard a console make significant noise in my 35 years of playing video games. Well I mean, there's noise, a very slight humming sound when games boot up, but other than that, why do people bitch so god damn much about "console noise"? People even get really extreme and say really weird shit like "my PS4 sounds like a jet engine in my living room!" Or "I'd love my PS4 Pro if it didn't sound like a fucking hair dryer on full blast!" (Real quote from someone here, not kidding).

My question is, who in the hell are these people and where are they getting their consoles? And why are they playing in such quiet rooms without headphones and expecting their electronics to be whisper quiet?

Must be people that live in quiet places, or places where you don't need to have a fan or an air conditioner on, and thus, they hear everything.

I always have a fan or an AC on and I never hear any sound coming from consoles other than the occasional noise when reading discs.

 

[Beerman462]

The amount of people taking offense in here is telling. Sorry, but if your console sounds like a jet engine, that's not normal, and it's likely your fault. It's also safe to assume your dwelling looks a lot like this.

What's more likely? Your PS4 is silent and everybody else's is loud or your play environment is noise polluted deliberate or not.?

 

[Alienfan]

I have my Xbox one hooked up to the TV in my room, it's not noticeable during the day or while wearing headphones, but when I'm trying to sleep, anything but silence is unbearable. And that's supposedly one of the "quieter" consoles too.

PS3 slim in conditions slightly hotter than room temperature sounds like an aircraft taking off, the noise it makes is so loud it pierces through headphones and ruins any chance of being a "all in one" media device. That has to be one of the loudest consoles ever made, but I'm no expert

 

[AnathemicOne]

The amount of people taking offense in here is telling. Sorry, but if your console sounds like a jet engine, that's not normal, and it's likely your fault. It's also safe to assume your dwelling looks a lot like this.

Well aren't you just a cheerful person.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Some people have to play games in a quiet environment(kids sleeping in the other room, neighbours etc) and the ps4 can be louder than your game.
Also, youre never sure whether your console is just being loud or going to melt.

Since I moved my ps4 from a space open on all four sides to a closed shelf under the TV it becomes very loud after a few minutes and I don't know if it's safe to go on playing.

Headphones.

 

[SubbieD]

That's just all your insight.

+1

 

[Marty Chinn]

Headphones.

Headphones don't help if my kid is sleeping on the couch and the jet engine can bother them. It also doesn't help if you're watching a movie and the noise is distracting.

 

[Stiler]

My ps4 is about 8 feet away when I use it and I can easily hear the sound of the fans whenever a game is playing and there's a moment of quietness in the game.

Having something that you can audibly hear why you are trying to listen to a game is annoying as hell.

My pc isn't that loud, all the other things under the tv aren't audible when they are being used.

It's like paying to go to a theater and why you're watching the movie someone gets on their phone or a baby starts crying.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Headphones don't help if my kid is sleeping on the couch and the jet engine can bother them. It also doesn't help if you're watching a movie and the noise is distracting.

Does your kid have a bed?

Ambient tv light is absolute shit for your kid's sleep quality.

 

[Brianimaniac]

If your system is genuinely loud, you need to clean the dust out of the fan.

 

[Beerman462]

Trying to downplay the PS4 noise is telling. It has a blower cooler. Those are noisy. Yes there are noisier things, but they are substantially louder than most home electronics.

 

[Fancyarcher]

I've never had a "loud console", but I can't imagine anyone that had one, didn't at least need to cover their ears a few good times. I'm also pretty sure that "loud consoles", are not something that people want to hear all the time.

If one's console is loud, though, it can probably be fixed. Blow some dust, or get it sorted out. I can't imagine that the console was intentionally made to sound loud after all.

 

[Agnostic Priest]

I'm gonna guess that the people complaining about loud consoles are actually doing so because they do in fact have loud consoles.

No that doesn't make sense because other people have quiet consoles so.................

 

[Marty Chinn]

Does your kid have a bed?

Ambient tv light is absolute shit for your kid's sleep quality.

I'm not talking about night time. I'm talking about taking a nap in the daytime.

 

[Maintenance]

What? Can you type in caps please, can't hear you over the sound of my PS4 fans.

 

[CaptPete]

I don't think that I'm particularly picky when it comes to how loud a system is (my gaming PC is anything but quiet!), but my launch PS4 really sounded like a hairdryer.

The most annoying thing was that it wasn't necessarily a steady noise that you could just tune out either, it would ramp up and down depending on the load on the system and it drove me crazy. I remember playing Killzone: Shadow Fall and it would be going full blast, then a cutsene would hit (or if you paused the game) and it would quiet down for a second then ramp back up once you started playing again. There were a couple places where it would be loud, quiet, loud, quiet, loud, quiet in quick succession. Reminded me a bit of my original 360's optical drive that was also pretty loud when it was running and would ramp up and down as the game was accessing different parts of the disc. The day that Microsoft enabled installing games to the hard drive was amazing; only had to listen to that stupid drive whenever I got a new game and not constantly when I was playing.

That PS4 was loud enough that I could hear it over my (granted, pretty open PortaPro) headphones. For those saying that I just needed to blow the dust out to quiet it down: that's how loud it was from the first time I plugged the damned thing in. It did get louder later on when it got dirty, but it started out annoyingly loud and just got worse from there. In the end it was annoying enough that I traded it in for one of the slightly updated models after a year or so. That one wasn't silent, but was no where near as loud and never really bothered me. I just swapped it for a PS4 Pro this last week and thankfully seem to have gotten a reasonably quiet one of those too. It did freak me out hearing reports of people getting loud Pros though.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Trying to downplay the PS4 noise is telling. It has a blower cooler. Those are noisy. Yes there are noisier thing, but they are louder than most home electronics.

A blower cooler makes the most sense in a sff for heat exhaust.

Other home electronics don't have a 1.8 - 4.2 tflop gpu.

It's going to make some noise.

It's not nearly as loud as the blower cooler in my 1070 rig, and even that isn't loud enough to be heard over tv volume.

The consoles are not streaming boxes. They are fairly powerful computers in a very small form facfor.

No one should expect them to be completely silent.

 

[Beerman462]

My PS4 is loud. I can't imagine what the hair dryer PS4's sound like.

A blower cooler makes the most sense in a sff for heat exhaust.

Other home electronics don't have a 1.8 - 4.2 tflop gpu.

It's going to make some noise.

It's not nearly as loud as the blower cooler in my 1070 rig, and even that isn't loud enough to be heard over tv volume.

The consoles are not streaming boxes. They are fairly powerful computers in a very small form facfor.

No one should expect them to be completely silent.

No one expects them to be silent, but above a certain sound level complaints can be expected. My Gigabyte 1070 is all bu silent, because it doesn't use a blower. Cooling vs noise is always a trade off, but the PS4 is the loudest console on the market.

 

[Head.spawn]

My Xbox 360 slim legit sounded like a Dirt Devil. It wasn't just distracting, it was annoying to the point that i started playing with headphones.

My Xbox One S is great and the standard Xbox One before it. My PS4 Pro is audible, but so fat it's nothing i would complain about... quiet enough.

 

[Tommi84]

Not trying to be a dick here

Sure about that? The next few paragraphs are kinda proving what you are not trying to be.

We complain, because the manufacturers are doing shitty job of making stuff. My PS4 was jet-engine level of sound after few months from being bought. Had it repaired, was quiet for some time. Then again I had to had it repaired. Now I almost can't hear it even with tv turned down.

So yeah, we complain not because we are buddhists monks, but because the console was genuinely loud.

PS. No, my consoles always have room to breath, not stored in a cabinet, or anything like that.

 

[Mindlog]

Follow up question; Why is the volume setting '1' so god damn loud on so many devices?
Old people and young people often have their TVs and portable music devices turned up way too damned loud. I've had to customize amps that went from not being loud enough to blowing CSF out your eye sockets with a feathers touch of input.

I typically build my PCs with silence as a primary concern. Video cards almost always force the water cooled hand.

 

[Kthulhu]

I've never had a problem myself with loud consoles either OP. I am always baffled when I see people complain about it here.

And I sit pretty close to my PS4 too. The loudest console I own is a Dreamcast and that's just the disk drive.

Yeah I guess I could hear the fans when it's quiet, but they were nothing I wouldn't hear on a laptop computer browsing GAF.

My guess is: 1. I'm lucky 2. People keep their volume lower than I do 3. People sit even closer than I do to their systems.

BTW people who say their PS4 sounds like a hair dryer. Please call Sony and ask for a replacement or repair. I'm pretty sure they aren't meant to sound like that.

 

[AgeEighty]

The noise from my consoles generally isn't very loud, except in isolated cases. I think there are a couple of factors involved:

1. Younger people who have their consoles in their bedrooms and sit fairly close to where they are located, vs. people like myself who have them in the living room halfway across the room.
2. People not cleaning the vents regularly.

 

[ZOONAMI]

My PS4 is loud. I can't imagine what the hair dryer PS4's sound like.



No one expects them to be silent, but above a certain sound level complaints can be expected. My Gigabyte 1070 is all bu silent, because it doesn't use a blower. Cooling vs noise is always a trade off, but the PS4 is the loudest console on the market.

Right, but I really can't take any "hair dryer" or vacuum comments seriously.

Measure the decibels. Even the loudest ps4 I guarantee would be a fraction of a hair dryer.

And I would think the loudest ps4 would be significantly quieter than a blower cooler gpu rig, which I know is not loud enough to really complain about, imo. Of course people will have different tolerance levels, but it conistently does seem like people are saying my other electronics don't make noise, why does the ps4?

The answer is that the ps4 has a very powerful gpu with a blower cooler for most effective heat exhaust in such a small form factor. So what are you still complaining about?

If it legitmately is louder than when you bought it, or actually loud enough to approach anywhere near the level of a hair dryer, then yes, it's defective. Return it, change thermal paste, warranty claim, etc. I had a launch ps4 before my ps4 pro and it never got louder than it was when it was brand new. If it did, I would do the thermal paste fix.

I agree that people shouldn't be having to do that so quickly though (Sony should use better paste).

 

[Tommi84]

The answer is that the ps4 has a very powerful gpu with a blower cooler

Could you tell then why I had to had my console repair TWICE in the past two years and now my console is x times quieter? It's not about the design. It's about shitty QA on Sony's side

PS. Repairs were free of charge proving that it's a) Sony's fault and b) my console was INFEED louder than it should be.

 

[kraspkibble]

The ps4 or xb1s isn't loud to me. Did no one own a ps3 or 360? That's loud. I gotta laugh at these people who describe their console as sounding like a jet engine haha ...no.

If your console is making such a racket then get it replaced. You really shouldn't be able to hear it when a game or blu ray is playing.

 

[bj00rn_]

Put a hairdryer in front of you at full blast and then try to ignore it.

 

[isaacnukem]

My 360 sounds like a hairblower. It's annoying, but I can tune it out with a well positioned electric fan. Now my PS3 on the other hand has this sound which is so sharp and fine I can only imagine it's what Prism Towers sound like when they shoot their lasers.

Almost everything I've played with these two consoles had their sound and music gone unappreciated, since I just resort to listening to music on headphones. It's that bad.

 

[dickroach]

my PS3 sounds like a vaccuum. I've opened it up and cleaned it up, but it still sounds like the vents of 50 adjacent AC vents are blowing out from that thing

 

[ZOONAMI]

Could you tell then why I had to had my console repair TWICE in the past two years and now my console is x times quieter? It's not about the design. It's about shitty QA on Sony's side

PS. Repairs were free of charge proving that it's a) Sony's fault and b) my console was INFEED louder than it should be.

Why do so many people cherry pick things out of posts? Look at the rest of my post.

 

[GlamFM]

The amount of people taking offense in here is telling. Sorry, but if your console sounds like a jet engine, that's not normal, and it's likely your fault. It's also safe to assume your dwelling looks a lot like this.

Some hot condescending bullshit right here.

 

[Kthulhu]

To the people who say their PS4 is loud as a hair dryer or a jet engine: Could you link to a video of a PS4 that is as loud as yours? I don't want to call anyone a liar, but it's just really hard for me to imagine it being that loud.

 

[Caffeine]

my og ps4 was a god damn leaf blower. and yes it was a console issue.
a slim ps4 is arriving tomorrow so I hope its better.

 

[benzopil]

I'm playing FFXV on regular PS4 and I'm afraid that my console will die because of this sound.

 

[billythemule]

The PS4 is the loudest console I've owned. I've owned the NES, PS1, N64 and the PS4. Not the biggest collection but I've also played a lot on my friend's PS2 and Xbox 360. I have my PS4 sitting right next to my PC monitor and in many 60fps titles like The Phantom Pain, I can hear the console loudly even if I have my headphones on. It's so loud that for a while I thought it was going to die on me. It's even worse if it's placed on its vertical stand because of the PS4's heatpipe configuration. I don't mind semi loud consoles like the PS3 that push a lot of air, it's when it gets to the point of my worrying whether there's something wrong with the console, then it becomes a problem. I've since taken my PS4 apart, cleaned it and replaced the thermal paste but no change.

 

[Beerman462]

Right, but I really can't take any "hair dryer" or vacuum comments seriously. Agreed

Measure the decibels. Even the loudest ps4 I guarantee would be a fraction of a hair dryer. Probably

And I would think the loudest ps4 would be significantly quieter than a blower cooler gpu rig, which I know is not loud enough to really complain about, imo. Of course people will have different tolerance levels, but it conistently does seem like people are saying my other electronics don't make noise, why does the ps4? This is a weird position as it all comes down to the size of the blower vs the volume of air being moved. Sees a bit defensive.

The answer is that the ps4 has a very powerful gpu with a blower cooler for most effective heat exhaust in such a small form factor. So what are you still complaining about? It doesn't

If it legitmately is louder than when you bought it, or actually loud enough to approach anywhere near the level of a hair dryer, then yes, it's defective. Return it, change thermal paste, warranty claim, etc. I had a launch ps4 before my ps4 pro and it never got louder than it was when it was brand new. If it did, I would do the thermal paste fix.

I agree that people shouldn't be having to do that so quickly though (Sony should use better paste).

The PS4 is louder than all home AV components. The only thing louder in my experience is my OG X360.

Like I said in a previous post. My PS4 is louder than my OC PC. That is enough to generate complaints. Saying it's over blown is not valid.

 

[Menitta]

Which PS1 game had the console make noise whenever a random battle was about to happen? Was it Xenogears? I think it was Xenogears...

 

[aravuus]

The amount of people taking offense in here is telling. Sorry, but if your console sounds like a jet engine, that's not normal, and it's likely your fault. It's also safe to assume your dwelling looks a lot like this.

Lmao. I can't quite tell if you're trolling or not, but I think it's safe to assume you're just looking for reactions because that's quite a big pile of horse shit you're spewing.

 

[Tarin02543]

Saying it's over blown is not valid.

Nice.

 

[ChimpBottle]

It's because GAF is one of the most hyperbolic communities on the Internet.

(That was meant to be ironic)

 

[ZOONAMI]

The PS4 is louder than all home AV components. The only thing louder in my experience is my OG X360.

Like I said in a previous post. My PS4 is louder than my OC PC. That is enough to generate complaints. Saying it's over blown is not valid.

Is your pc the size of a ps4 and does it have a blower cooler gpu? Do any of your other av compnents have multiple tflop gpus in them?