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PS5 Pro owners, how silent is your unit? Any noticeable Coil Whine?
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DarkstarRising13
Member
No Noticeable coil whine for me. It's as quiet as it can be for a powerful console like this.
Fess
Member
When it’s idle on the dashboard it’s pretty much silent for me. I held the phone 5cm from the console with a noise measuring app and it said ~33 dB powered off, that’s the room background noise which is mostly coming from an aquarium. I could then possibly read an increase to ~34 dB when I powered it on but there was fluctuations so could just be variations on room noise. It’s very silent. And no coil whine!
Then fans ramp up with a slight vrrr occasionally when it’s working, also for like 2 seconds when it’s powered on but then comes down to silence at the dash.
Fans ramping up can be heard from the couch if I turn off the audio but it’s very very silent and nothing worth mentioning. Haven’t measured the fans at full load but i doubt it’s going up much.
This is when it’s horizontal with no disc drive installed yet if that matters.
My base PS5 has coil whine and while that don’t show on a noise meter it’s extremely annoying because of the high frequence and character of the noise. Getting rid of that is the upgrade I feel the most going from Base to Pro.
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Salty Pickle
Member
My PS5 Pro is louder than my fat PS5 base with a slight hint of coil whine but unless I’m playing on ”mute” it’s not noticible. My PC with a rtx3080 is way louder.
Rayderism
Member
I can hear the fan running, but I wouldn't call it loud or noisy. More like merely perceptible when you get right on top of the console. The cooling fan in my racing wheel is louder.
As for coil whine.....well....I didn't hear any from my OG PS5, let alone the Pro, but then I'm 56 years old and work in a noisy factory, so even if it was there, I probably wouldn't hear it. I mean, I hear coil whine all the time, it's called tinnitus.
So, just like my OG PS5, the loudest things about it are the beep when I turn it on, and the disk drive access.
As for coil whine.....well....I didn't hear any from my OG PS5, let alone the Pro, but then I'm 56 years old and work in a noisy factory, so even if it was there, I probably wouldn't hear it. I mean, I hear coil whine all the time, it's called tinnitus.
So, just like my OG PS5, the loudest things about it are the beep when I turn it on, and the disk drive access.
Blitzmangoman
Member
I noticed my fan always doing the same speed/sound.
I can play a PS4 game, PS5 or even Pro enhanced or right now a PSP game from PS Plus Premium lol. It's always the same.
There might come an update maybe for this or I will check in a couple weeks/months if I can replace the fan and get one of those "quiet" ones, lol.
I can play a PS4 game, PS5 or even Pro enhanced or right now a PSP game from PS Plus Premium lol. It's always the same.
There might come an update maybe for this or I will check in a couple weeks/months if I can replace the fan and get one of those "quiet" ones, lol.
King Dazzar
Member
Been playing loads of different games now since launch. And thankfully I've not heard mine once in all that time. For me its just like my OG. No coil whine either.
jm89
Member
How far do you sit from the pro? Can you hear the fan if you get close?
jm89
Member
Yeah I found that a bit odd it just stays the same speed regardless of the game.
I booted up tetris and the fan speed was the same as playing a much more demanding game like Alan wake 2.
King Dazzar
Member
Sure, but I have to move my head right up to it - say maybe 0.5m. I'm sat 2m away.
AlterSchwede
Neo Member
I ordered mine from playstation direct had a not too loud but still annoying kind of whistling noise while playing games.
I ordered a second one from amazon last week which is now silent (in that sense that you only hear the fan but nothing else).
So glad I was lucky with the second one. Will send the first one back to Sony.
I ordered a second one from amazon last week which is now silent (in that sense that you only hear the fan but nothing else).
So glad I was lucky with the second one. Will send the first one back to Sony.
lh032
I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
Its been 2 weeks now, my ps5 pro has been very quiet.
im playing doom eternal with ray tracing on currently.
the only sound i hear now is my table fan spinning in the same room , or if my ps5 pro disk drive is spinning for a while.
My ps5 pro just beside my monitor vertically so you can imagine how close my ps5 pro is .
i have to stick my ear to the ps5 pro cover to actually hear some sounds while gaming is running.
im playing doom eternal with ray tracing on currently.
the only sound i hear now is my table fan spinning in the same room , or if my ps5 pro disk drive is spinning for a while.
My ps5 pro just beside my monitor vertically so you can imagine how close my ps5 pro is .
i have to stick my ear to the ps5 pro cover to actually hear some sounds while gaming is running.
Radical_3d
Member
I wanted to test mine to give my opinion but now that I’m finally able to use it I’ve remembered that I live in a very noisy neighbourhood with no isolation in the windows. So… I don’t really know.
TheGodfather07
Member
Anyone know if they're still using nidec fans? Those were the ones that sound the worst with a high pitch sound. My og PS5 had one of those fans and I had to loosen the screws holding the fan to reduce that sound. The other two much better fans are NMB and delta.
Blitzmangoman
Member
Ok so, which fan is the quiet one?
I know mine is the same loudness (lol) on every game. Be it a PS2 game, PS4 or PS5 (Pro enhanced).
What is worrying me more is the Internet speed. I did all the settings, 5ghz, DNS settings etc like my old PS5 but I only get 90mbits. Phone and old PS5 get 250.
I don't want to send it back but did I get a faulty one?
Edit: or is it just the PSN?
Just tested laptop, also full speed.
Edit: Guess it's the PSN, got full speed now as well. Will change fan in a couple months when I can find replacements.
Also the animated background has aliasing but no one mentions it.
I know mine is the same loudness (lol) on every game. Be it a PS2 game, PS4 or PS5 (Pro enhanced).
What is worrying me more is the Internet speed. I did all the settings, 5ghz, DNS settings etc like my old PS5 but I only get 90mbits. Phone and old PS5 get 250.
I don't want to send it back but did I get a faulty one?
Edit: or is it just the PSN?
Just tested laptop, also full speed.
Edit: Guess it's the PSN, got full speed now as well. Will change fan in a couple months when I can find replacements.
Also the animated background has aliasing but no one mentions it.
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DonF
Member
If you are not playing a disc game, just remove any disc in the drive. It reads the disc constantly and vibrates a lot. Og ps5 is the same.
digdug2
Member
Thanks, I have now done that. It's just annoying because it should check the disc once when it powers on, and then when I load a game that the PS5 knows is a disc version so it can verify the correct disc is inserted. It doesn't need to spin up the entire time that it's turned on.
FrankWza
Gold Member
You're the second person who has mentioned this and I can say it doesn't happen to mine. It's will spin when powered on and, if you don't start the game immediately or are not in standby, it will spin when the game is started. Other than a quick buzz every once in a while there's no disc noise. At least it's something they can patch out like they did after the original launched
dcx4610
Member
Mine is nice and quiet. I think the fan could sound a little smoother but I'm kinda spoiled by Noctua fans. It's a little buzzy but I can't hear it on the coach and especially during gameplay. While I've never been a huge fan of the look of the PS5, it's a well engineered machine.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
I definitely have a slight coil whine
Et3rn1ty
Neo Member
My problem is not the slight coil whine but the fan that is loud to my ears...
I measure the db with an app but i saw on youtube that most youtubers have measured the same fan noise arounde 48 db...