Edgelord79
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Gamers Nexus during their partial teardown didn't seem to be too impressed with the way certain components were installed.
This doesn't surprise me.
This doesn't surprise me.
Thing is, hearing of humans varies a lot. There is a reason why musical engineers or in this day and age mastering tools are so heavy on loudness and "just right" EQ.Am I the only one that can't hear a thing in that video of the "coil whine"? I know i can't hear ultra high pitched sounds (do to hearing damage from decades of headphone wearing) but I can usually at least hear things in video at top volume. My launch day PS4 fan sounds like a jet engine and ups the temp 10 degrees, but it is noticable in the extreme. This seems minor.
I have 9 fans in my pc (including psu/gpu/cpu fans) and I can hear the case fans, but that is due to me keeping them at max settings for most air flow. When wearing headphones I don't hear it. I can deal with minor fan noise, its the loud ps4 jet engine sounds and heat creation that bugs the hell out of me.
Right, look. You'd still hit it though...right?Mine is super quiet but man is it ugly and you have to use that ghetto stand in both orientations. The perfect representation for it’s the inside that counts ugly girl.
Right, look. You'd still hit it though...right?
At the end of the day, pussy is pussy. It's good no matter how you dress it.
Just like PS. You hit no matter the warts, scars, floppy bits and other repulsive body features. Same with PS5.
Ugly as it may be you'd still hit it and you'll love it. You'll love it long time.
Just the tip though. You don't want to worsen the coil whine.The console can look like a shoe for all I care. I’d still put my dick inside its shoe hole.
Just the tip though. You don't want to worsen the coil whine.
That sucksTo be fair, my Xbox Series X's PSU died on me.
Thank you early beta testers. When I get my ps5 2 years down the road, they should have all the issues fixed.
I love it A LOT!Pussy.
There's this poll from other place that seems to mirror my impressions of other impressions, and every time someone I know gets one I make a point to ask about their noise situation. It seems like the majority are very silent, coil whine is the next concern, and less people than that have notable fan noise from a reasonable distance.
Sucks for those with a less than stellar unit, I feel for ya and it's probably going to be hard to swap with these supply constraints. But I do think the overall design is quiet if you haven't gotten a minority issue.
I despise the design but I touch the thing so rarely I don't care too much.Put in for a replacement. If your unit is poorly put together or has components that are not functioning correctly you don't have to settle for it.
My first impression when taking the PS5 out of its box was that it feels cheap and not as sturdy as any other console I've previously owned (a lot of that is down to the poxy plates) but thankfully I've not had any noise or hardware related issues with it.
I really hate how coil whine has become "normal" for video cards, honestly it's just poor design bullshitSounds a bit weird for a coil whine. It should be more constant and frame rate dependant. It super loud on my 3080 but it's kinda normal. On console its a bit strange
Any poll about coil whine is pointless, because that problem depends on way to many variables.
1. It is on end of audible spectrum which means that some people will not hear it.
2. It can be heard only from specific points of space in relation to console. No joke I had whining PSU in notebook which you could hear in like 1m diameter sphere, just when my head was when I was sleeping.
3. It depends on what you actually play
4. For some people background noise can totally hide the noise.
5. Even where you put it can change how loud whine is.
Even without that all in mind 12% of people hearing coils whining is terrible result.
10% of users having coil whine isn't really acceptable.
Fan noise is expecteded, and it's pretty good this time around.
You pay a premium price but you don't get a premium product. How does this get past the quality assurance phase?
I dont think its from the psu. I unplugged my fan to hear it better and its coming out from the top half of the system. Unless its just reverberating out the top
No noise is reported by only 46% of people. For console designed to be dead silent in first place that's not great result. Especially that IMO coil whine is worse than fans (unless they are broken). It drills straight into your brain.I do agree with both of you, 12% of people having coil whine means Sony doesn't care about coil whine and I wish they did.
But when I see 75% of people also reporting no noise, to my mind that also says the 'canon' design for lack of a better word can be silent and mostly is, and it doesn't have to take years to a Slim revision, it may be addressable by added QC on the fans and coils. As far as the list of reasons a user may miss coil whine that is theoretically there, in the end the result is 75% of people could not hear it, if it's out of auditory frequency or whatever.
Honestly, most standard electronics companies don't care about coil whine, you will notice it on most laptop power bricks. Apple is the standout that historically has, and I think by way of trying to compete with them with Surface, Microsoft picked up on these things as well and the Surface team had that input for Xbox, which they (from the lack of complaints I've heard) have done quite well here.
Jesus fucking Christ this is getting annoying now, I've been adoring my time with the PS5, the games are great, the UI is snappy and beautiful, the controller is a delight and the system itself is gorgeous.
However there's one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb whenever I go from my Series X to the PS5, the sound. The Series X is a marvel in how quiet it is for the power it holds, you can tell the engineering team did a top job, taking care with every minute component.
The PS5 on the other hand is starting to feel like a cheap hunk of junk in that department. It really feels like Sony cheaped out with their PSUs as not only my PS5 but my entire friend groups are making the most annoying coil whine which seem to have gotten worse since Nov.19
Here's a little diary of my coil whine experience:
Nov 19: quiet as hell, no fan or coil whine sound at all, Astro and Miles Morales running with no issues.
Nov 22: start to notice some very quiet humming from around the PSU of the console, only flairs up when on Miles Morales, everything else is fine and the sound was only audible as I was sorting out my cable management whilst game was on.
Nov 25: coil whine evolves into a more audible sound, has a pretty noticeable whine when TV is quiet now when on Miles Morales, no other games creating a hum.
Nov 27: coil whine evolves again, this time easing itself into not only Miles Morales but Spider-Man Remastered, Astro, AC Valhalla and even when I power it on, still not a major annoyance but it now varies in sound from app to app.
Nov 29: coil whine fucking evolves tenfold as it now starts to get slightly louder and the fan starts to kick in whenever I start a game, pretty audible noises from the fan doing its work on games which never made it work this hard before, coil whine frequency changes wildly from game to game.
Dec 1: Coil whine reaches a new phase of fuckery, I didn't record my own as my phone doesn't pick it up well but this YouTube video sounds exactly like mine, the coil whine and fan have gotten slightly louder, I must stress with my TV on around 20 volume or with headphones in you can't hear it, it's only when the game hits a quiet spot on TV or the volume is low, but now the coil whine is rapidly changing frequency out of nowhere whilst playing Valhalla, it only stopped doing this once I closed the app entirely but even then it slowly whirred down to a quiet hum. Video below is just like mine.
All in all I'm very disappointed, especially seeing as barely any review units have mentioned coil whine yet most people I know on here who have a PS5 are experiencing this to a degree, seems like something Sony were aware of as they wouldn't have not noticed this during testing, but as it wasn't a threat to the system health they let it through to be sold, which is very poor on their part seeing as all we hear is how quiet the system is.
As it stands I won't be replacing my unit yet as I want to wait for Sony to address this or make a slightly revised model under the radar which solves this by grounding the coils so this coil whine doesn't happen on as many consoles. I'm still loving my PS5 but I think this was something that Sony have really fucked their customers over on.
I want to get a replacement but not yet I feel as Coil whine isn't a system killing issue and the noise isn't unbearable, also this time of year is the worst to ship things due to Christmas madness so may wait a few more months.OP have you reported this, I'd ask for a replacement? This is the risk early adopters take, there's always a % chance of stuff going wrong because this is still the beta test imo.
Please don't buy the PS5 guys.Wait for the slim version, too many problems with this edition.
Yeah. My coil whine as thankfully gotten more quiet actually, not as bad as it once was.. but it really pisses me off how my first two days with the system, it was completely silent.. but now I can hear a slight fan plus the coil whine, like wtf happened?
It's so fucking embarrassing and humiliating for Mark Cerny to be honest considering how big the god damn thing is. That size and yet it still can't be more quiet than a series x (which more powerful going by the sheets).
As you said everything else is great on the system, but the god damn sacrifices we put up with to experience greatness.. I swear.
When I get back to campus it's gonna be embarrassing as fuck if my xbox/nintendo fanboy of a roommate will be able to hear the ps5 considering I boasted about the size and that's why it would be quiet compared to the ps4 pro.. but he'll just rub it in my face and embarrassing me with his ultra silent series x
People ITT still saying it's because of launch units and it will get better with newer revisions... no it won't anytime soon.
People with coil whiney PSUs in their PS4 Pros rev. 71XXb were already hoping that this will be fixed with the 72XXb and everyone was sure that the PS5 won't have it anymore, but look at where we are now, 3 years later.
If Sony has a 10 year contract with the PSU manufacturer who is making the affected PSU, then we'll be seeing this throughout this generation and unless Sony addresses this officially, I wouldn't hold my breath for any changes being made here.
LOL. I mean yeah that's why I'm happy I didnt buy a launch console but yeah LOL what you're saying is true.