From my experience, the noise level will also vary within versions 1.1-1.6 (the ones without a GPU fan). Of all the ones I personally own, the main fan in my 1.2/1.3 runs much quieter than my 1.4 at the same fan speed. DIfferent fan brands are the cause. The 1.4 even runs louder than my dev kit which has a GPU fan much like the initial 1.0 consoles. DVD drives don;'t make much difference in noise but a nearly-dead thomson will seek alot thus pruducing more noise. A recap on fans: -No version has a CPU fan...just heatsinks -The first version (1.0) has a fan on the GPU -All other versions have a heatsink on the GPU. They were deemed not necessary by MS. A 1.0 console should function just fine with it's GPU fan/heatsink replaced with the larger 1.1-1.6 heatsinks. It might also be worth mentioning that the Seagate 10GB drives run somewhat quieter than their WD 8GB counterparts.
I got my xbox at christmas and its as loud as my freind who got his box packaged with the segagt and jsrf my xbox didn't come with any games in the box Ill check and see what version it is later I think it could have been sitting in the storage room cause around christmas it came with ncaa and that tennis game mine didn't. Or maybe it was the one release right after the one with tennis and ncaa?
