Another option!

I'm not gonna lie to you, I thought those were butt plugs. Followed by a brief imagining of where the 360's backside should be. Thank god I snapped to it. "Oh, it's for HIS ears!"

Butt plugs come in pairs?

There's a sentence I didn't see myself typing when I got up this morning.

I'm reasonably certain that this would have some significant compatibility issues with the wireless controllers, since wifi has major line of site issues.

I literally laughed out loud. I hope you're proud!

It may be necessary to use wired controllers in order to reap the full benefits of placing your 360 into a $4000 soundproof server rack.

The loudness may be impacted based on where you sit in relation to the unit. Close, back, is the unit below head level or on a shelf at the same level as you, etc. Make sure its well ventillated. I actually think my fans got quieter over time, and I'm never really distracted by the 360 itself anymore. Part of it may just be that you are focused on it, it has your attention and at least that awareness will subside as you game on and forget about it.

I really dont think there are any tricks, different 360's feature different fans depending on when/where they were built and who they happened to source fans from during a particular production run. I've heard mention of brush based fans and brushless fans that have been found in different units.

For example, the following sarcasm is not aimed at you, but at the level of detail you can encounter when trying to purchase a 360 based on LOT # and component gossip on internet discussion forums. I have 2 360's btw, but found purchasing unit #2 was a whole level of detail that I dont want to worry about, only cause I got too caught up in trying to making sure, pre-falcon, that I 'got a good one.'

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It must be a unit from Lot #8008135 from Team HURL which was the singular production run in the Hungarian plant where they relied on a new supplier of LEMON Brush Fans on their Pre-Falcon Pre-Zephyr Pre-Designed for cooling motherboards. This mb features the solderless chipsets that allow the chips to reseat themselves on-demand as the unit temperature rises, and also warp-on-demand circuitboard for increased cooling evolution as the unit ages. The bright side of this one production lot is that it sourced the now hard to find, NICKNSCRATCH brand of dvd players, which only etch a game disk for no reason 1 out of 50 plays. Instead of cooling pipes, this mb features extra heating pipes because the designers felt the best initial re-design would be to fight fire with fire.

This lot number is particularly well-known via internet gossip for its extremely loud fans, because there is a actually a team of very durable pygmy robotic mice inside running in circles to generate the fan sounds.

I just got a 360 yesterday (teehee) and didn't notice noisiness at all.

I don't get the two button presses part. When I want to turn my 360 on I just press the button on my non-charge'n'played wireless controller.

English teacher says: "it's spelled chintzy."

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TMI moment.

Have you tried this:

I understand it's fairly effective.

What's worse? That Mex would know or the utter lack of surprise that he knows?