| crumas2 said: Oh, my goodness. You've made a negative comment about the PS3 slim... I hope you have flame-retardant underwear... |
You post this after 30-odd responses with not a bit of flammeage in any of them? This seems like a thread with very mature responses so far.
I have Phatboy pre-Slim. I'm happy with its noise output, I only really notice the noise when the fan switches off I.e. I realise the room has gone quiet, and mostly that is when there is no other sound going on in the living room. So sound attenuation means the noise of the PS3 Phat is negligible. By the look of the responses here Slim noise levels seem to be about the same or better.
Individual units maybe have the fan housing not so tightly screwed down (or however it's attached to the casing) which means more vibration when the fan is running. More vibration means more mechanical stress on the whole PS3, which means potentially higher chance of malfunction. I'd suggest taking a load PS3 (Phat or Slim) back for fixing under warranty or replacement. Given the claim by manufactuer and pundits that PS3 slim is notable quiet a loud PS3 Slim is a faulty PS3 Slim.
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