Whats with all the fans??

VR3
VR3 Posts: 29,361
edited November 2007 in Electronics
I purchased a Toshiba HD-A3 or w/e (was 299.99 - Best Buy had it for 199.99 with 7 free HDDVDs ---)

I bought it mainly to get away from the fan thats in my XBox 360 --

Then come to find out, it has a freaking fan too...

Why all the fans??
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,795
    edited November 2007
    You just gotta be cool, man. They can get annoying though.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited November 2007
    these new toys are built on PC platforms, so they have mem chips, cpus, etc. As said they gotta stay cool. Of all the toys I have, my 360 is rather loud so I know where youre coming from with that.
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  • bruss
    bruss Posts: 1,039
    edited November 2007
    I can hear my dell server in my basement from my living room.. lol.. I think it has 6 or 8 fans in it... just waiting for "her" to pinpoint the sound... muahahahahahah
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited November 2007
    Sona wrote: »
    Noisy fans totally suck. PC based, huh? How about ripping out the fans and installing a water cooling system?

    That would be cool, but I have yet to try a water cooling system, too afraid of a leak.
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited November 2007
    If the cooling fans are PC-like, you may be able to swap it out for an aftermarket fan designed to run quiet. Just a suggestion that might help.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited November 2007
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    I purchased a Toshiba HD-A3 or w/e (was 299.99 - Best Buy had it for 199.99 with 7 free HDDVDs ---)

    I bought it mainly to get away from the fan thats in my XBox 360 --

    Then come to find out, it has a freaking fan too...

    Why all the fans??

    That one fan really bothers you? Some of these Sony projectors can have up to 14 fans!

    Info link:http://www.curtpalme.com/CRTPrimer_27.shtm

    "The entire Sony 12XX line of projectors is known to be quite noisy due to the fans used to cool the projector. The 1292 is even noisier than the other models due to a total of 14 fans. A hush box is recommended for these Sony's if the noise bothers you."
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2007
    What are ya gonna do, you want to process all that digital video and sound, you need a pretty beefy processor to do it, and beefy processors get hot. The fan they used is pretty quiet - quieter than most PCs - so while they could have maybe tried to get a little quieter I think a little noise is going to be necessary barring watercooling (which is way too expensive for a device that Toshiba is already losing money on).
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 7,385
    edited November 2007
    You could also figure out the size/voltage of the fan and get a replacement 'quiet fan' from someplace like endpcnoise.com

    Those Pabst and Nexus fans are pretty damn quiet, however, if the fan is small (40mm size), it might not be any quieter.

    or you could just live with it and turn up the volume so that you don't hear it.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,384
    edited November 2007
    Sherardp wrote: »
    That would be cool, but I have yet to try a water cooling system, too afraid of a leak.

    My bro had one on his overclocked computer. Cool as hell and worked as advertised. It worked quite well in fact.
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