Xbox Series X is as Quiet as the Xbox One X - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2020 / 3,191 Views
Microsoft at The Game Awards announced its next generation console, codenamed Project Scarlett, is officially called Xbox Series X.
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer in an interview with GameSpot revealed the Xbox Series X will be as quiet as the Xbox One X.
"What the team did, and you [see] it through the top grate, is we went with one central fan in the design," said Spencer. "What this design does, with the size of the fan that we built around, is it lets us match how quiet the Xbox One X is with all that power inside of the box."
"There's always this tension between design, acoustics, cooling, and the function of the console, and we were not going to compromise on function," he added. "I'm just incredibly impressed with the design that they [came up with].
"If I don't point it out, it just sits there and plays video games the way I want it to and I never hear it, just like how I don't hear my [Xbox One] X." The single fan on the Xbox Series X is "able to spin at a low enough rate that it is whisper-quiet." You will be able to set the console horizontally or vertically.
"We did do a nod with our Xbox; it has a green tint and it's a concave design so as you come up [to it].," Spencer added.
Xbox Series X launches in Holiday 2020 with Halo: Infinite as a launch title.
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X1X is very quiet, but the base X1 and X1S werent bad either. They all had big fans and good ventilation, so noise wasnt really an issue. The Series X must have a box fan in there given the size.
Since the red ring 360s, the Xbox brand has delievered some of the best cooling in the console industry and it seems to continue next gen.
I expected it looking at the design and what they said on the objectives. PS4Pro or original I never was bothered by the "excessive noice" people usually say, but for these folks this a good think that XSX is very quiet.
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