No noticeable fan noise on PS5 at all, console remained cold after 80 minutes of gameplay

Dengeki Online - "PS5 is about a month away from its release on November 12th. Prior to the release, PS5 hands-on was held somewhere in Tokyo! It took about 1 hour and 45 minutes, but I've been playing 2 titles and enjoyed the feel of PS5, so I would like to deliver this report."

[lifeisgamesok]

This is what I like to hear. It sounds like Sony has made many improvements

+Quiter console
+Improved battery life for the controller
+Faster load times
+Wifi 6

All of this along with the best games

[VenomUK]

No fan noise is music to my ears! There’s a ton of favourite PS4 games I will want to continue playing on PS5 without that background fan whirring up.

[SullysCigar]

I was quietly confident this would be the case, but it's great to get confirmation.

They've acknowledged the fan and the focus on cooling for this gen a few times. Be great to get a few more details, but honestly I'm just pleased to hear how well it works and that it's silent!

[lifeisgamesok]

Yeah, I hear ya. What's weird is low triangle counts made the fan get loud like with some menu screens. I have the PS4 slim so it is a little better with fan noise from what I've heard

[boing1]

Main reason I have my PS5 pre-ordered. Can't stand the noise of my Pro. Takes away the joy of playing sometimes.

[NEXUS-6]

Marquinho - it is blue on start up and then goes white when in use.

At least it still has leds - and not just coloured plastic like xsx.

[StoneyYoshi]

@Marquinho

That's clearly a straight on shot. Cant see LED strips when they are along the outer edge of the systems gloss black portion.

[ziggurcat]

@marquinho:

nice try. It was on: https://pbs.twimg.com/media...

[Profchaos]

It's fantastic news agree absolutely there's been so many good releases lately thps 1+2, crash 4 and star wars squadrons none of these games have next gen releases planned so it's great that I can finally play without headphones as my pro was ultra loud

[Gardenia]

The fan noise is one of the most important things for me for the PS5. We don't know the temperature of the room he was playing in, and my PS4 Pro was quiet for the first 3 months as well. So we'll have to see if it stays quiet all the time, especially with more power demanding games in the future.

[ArthriticPowers]

Especially since they have gone the liquid metal solution, have never researched how it's longevity holds up compared to normal thermal paste. But the fact they went that way tells me it was required because even on a large scale manufacturing front its not cheap. Think of it like this. You work in a dusty indoor environment. You could invest in better respirators (liquid metal)or invest in a better dust extraction system. Curious how this goes. I'm not impressed with my pro, had to change the thermal paste after only 12mth even though I wasn't putting massive ours on the console.

[morganfell]

Power flow is constant. Cerny made that clear in his discussion. This was done to eliminate variables.

People really need to watch that presentation. If I didn't know better I would say most people on this board ignored it.

https://youtu.be/ph8LyNIT9s...

[lifeisgamesok]

True though I think Sony put an emphasis on console noise this time. The power adjusting with variable clocks should improve the noise level tenfold

[Sunny_D]

The room temp was 86F because of all the studio lights. So that’s actually really really good.

[frostypants]

If your console starts quiet but gets louder after a few months, your likely culprit is dust buildup. Console makers could mitigate this with a removable/washable filter (my PC has one). I feel like they should, given that the tight internal design of these consoles doesn't permit for a lot of tolerance. Having an air purifier/filter in the room that you run periodically is a good way to minimize this.

[Gardenia]

@morganfell

There is a difference between playing in 4K 30fps or 60fps with a lower resolution. That's what I meant with power of the games.

There is a reason why the GoW on the PS4 Pro makes the fan go crazy because it uses the full power of the PS4.

[NobleRed]

We know the temperature they confirmed about 30 degrees.

[morganfell]

"There is a reason why the GoW on the PS4 Pro makes the fan go crazy because it uses the full power of the PS4."

The power demands in the PS4 are not constant.

[ProjectVulcan]

Funny thing I tore down my PS4 Pro today first time and it wasn't dirty inside. The paste seemed poor quality though and the thermal pads were really small, they didn't even fully cover the memory chips.

Fresh quality paste. New big full sized thermal pads. Slapped it back together and it runs really quiet now after an hour on TLOU2, probably top 5 most demanding games on the system.

It's a shame I had to do all this although my results were great, I don't want to do it to a Playstation again. I delidded my PS3 as well a while back with spectacular results. Shouldn't have to do it. PS5 is so huge it should not suffer any of these issues.

[Eonjay]

Awesome.

[Army_of_Darkness]

@Gardenia

Fan noise is one of your most important factors to the ps5?? Really? Fan noise? 🤣

[Profchaos]

Mine was never quiet but became increasingly louder until I learnt the top case fan could be cleaned it's still loud but not screeching loud like it became

[PS-Gamer-1986]

@army of darkness

There is nothing funny about that. The one and only thing about the ps4 that i disliked (drove me nuts to be specific) was its fan noise. It made exchange my og ps4 for the second revision which reportedly seemed to be alot more quiet than the og but still bothered me.

Later i on ps4 pro i played all games in 1080p instead of 4k in hope it will be just a little more quiet. In a ddition i changed thermal paste and thermal pads which made it a bit better but still not enough to not bother me. My last hope was exchanging the fan for the new revisions nidec fan will only a slight improvement yet again.

I play with out headphone and and only moderate volume on my tv speakers so yeah learning the ps5 seem to be quiet i a HUGE deal for me, more important than power gaps to the competition, the price, or the size of the console.

But i still take these news with a grain of salt in fear it might be misinformation

[Bigman4k]

Yup i agree sony haves better day1 launch games than they had with PlayStation 4 lol their only launch 1p game was knack

[Thatgrammar]

@lifeisgamesok
Several websites list the PS5 as not having Wifi 6, but instead Wifi 5. Has there been any official confirmation from Sony on the Wifi that the PS5 will support? All I have seen is websites talk about Wifi 6 due to a “leak” from a “Brazilian website.”

[frostypants]

The wifi improvement is so good to hear. Hope this also means a better internal antenna. The wifi performance of the PS4 (or at least mine, which is an early gen SKU) is its biggest shortcoming. Lucky to pull 20mbps in a room where everything else gets 100mbps. Hardwiring is always better obviously but not always an option. Sounds like Sony is making wifi a focal point this time.

[Muzikguy]

These launch games of course aren't pushing the system so hopefully the system stays quiet later on. It's nice to hear how quiet it is. Quiet systems like when we were using cartridges. Sure will be nice to not have to crank up the sound to drown out the system. Quiet is a win for the next gen.

[Godmars290]

How is there a wifi 6? Just now hearing about wifi 5.

[Homushi]

its not going to be quiet for long. The games currently being made for it aren't going to be as demanding as the games that will release in a year or two from now. Additionally, as dust naturally accumulates on the machine, it will need to work harder for the console to stay cool and so the fan speed with increase.

That being said, given the size of it and the amount of space there is for the consoles components to breath, it will be an overall quieter console, but rest assured, it will get a little louder. It will need to be periodically cleaned from the inside and blow that dust out and that will help it get quieter. Even desktop computers require they be cleaned periodically, consoles are no different.

[DerfDerf]

A lot of evidence pointing to them running the game through dev kits that were hidden. That would explain why in most of the footage the blue led light is not lit on the console.

[subzero1992]

Remains cold? That's interesting but this is the definition of a "controlled environment" though. Hopefully Sony sends out units soon to media too so we can see it in real peoples home/offices environments.

[Nacho_Z]

He did say it was pretty hot in the room.

[subzero1992]

If that's true that would mean the difference in the PS5 temperature and the ambient temperature wouldn't be much different. Don't know how that makes it "cold" unless the PS5 has an evaporator coil and refrigerant we don't know about in it.

[Sunny_D]

@subzero

The room was warm due to the studio lights inside. The PS5 apparently stayed cool with very small warm air blowing out when he put his hand near a vent.

[Ausbo]

Yeah it also matters what game is running. Playing astrobot will likely be different from games that are pushing the hardware like horizon and god of war.

But it sounds like Sony learned their lesson from the PS4 regarding the sound. Glad to hear it

[Profchaos]

A lot of the streamers that got to play with it also played godfall and devil may cry

[Bathyj]

I don't think it matters what game is running at all. Isn't that the point of having a constant power supply buy a variable clock speed? That the power supply is always the same was the primary focus of the whole system so the cooling system knows exactly what to account for.

Unless I've misinterpreted what Cerny said. Anyone else got a take on this?

[azedean]

He played with astro boy and godfall, then yes ps5 has a very efficient cooling system.

[morganfell]

@Bathyj,

I have never seen a technical talk so disregarded by gamers as the PS5 discussion by Cerny. Posters on this site have ignored his remarks on the internal bay, then the fact you could use approved off the shelf SSDs for expansion, and now the constant power equation.

https://youtu.be/ph8LyNIT9s...

[SatanSki]

@Bathyj
So You're implying that PS5 "pumps" all power to it's processors, even when it's not necessary? Wow. That would be so ecological and economical...

[Rhythmattic]

SatanSki..
Another way I look at it is like the Old Backlit LCD versus Plasmas TV's..

With no pixels presented , a plasma uses less power, as the LCD backlight is always on.. but with every pixel on and white The plasma would increase in power draw, which made LCD's cheaper to run...

Not that I know what the difference will be in Costs to run... Only when we have specs and power draw , will will know what this will actually mean,.... One set metric may be the same, less or more than a variable power draw...... We dont know... yet.

[IRetrouk]

It was warm in the room according to the youtubers @ 30°c because of the studio lights etc, really want a tear down now, be interesting to see if it really is being liquid cooled.

[NeoMantas]

Wasn't it said they were using liquid metal or something along those lines a few weeks back?

[pocolocoX]

Custom vapor chamber brings down the heat.

[IRetrouk]

Supposedly yeah, if true or not who knows, but hopefully we get a teardown soon and find out lol.

[Bathyj]

The liquid metal it true is just to replace the thermal paste to the heat sink.

[lifeisgamesok]

Cerny did say he thinks we'll like what they came up with for the cooling. I think the PS5 will be one of Sony's best consoles

[ArthriticPowers]

I though it was using liquid metal on the APU and ram not liquid/water cooled.

[IRetrouk]

@ArthriticPowers
Yeah sorry, should have been clearer, thats what I ment, I dont believe there's any rumors of the whole system being liquid cooled.

[Nacho_Z]

"It was about 1 hour and 45 minutes, and I think it took about 1 hour and 20 minutes to actually start the PS5"

Something lost in translation there I guess haha. Great to hear the fan is quiet that alone is going to be a game changer after all these years of sitting next to a jet engine.

[TheProfessional]

Can we please finally admit that the fan noise on the ps4 pro is absurdly loud? It sounds like it's going to explode whenever I'm at the main menu in COD.

[RaidenBlack]

There's a revised model of the Pro that's a bit quieter.
Mine is the previous model. So it gets a bit loud but not much.
PS4 Slim is actually aint that loud.

[lifeisgamesok]

Yep, the slim is pretty quiet

[RaidenBlack]

@ BeNoble_777
(Loudest) PS4 > PS4 Pro > One S > PS4 Slim > One X (Quietest)
.
*From my personal experience (might vary from model to model).

[Bathyj]

I must be the only person on earth that has a quiet PS4 Pro. I've never heard the fan..

[IRetrouk]

My spiderman one is sweet, still quiet(I clean them though) no problems with my last of us 2 one yet either, I have a standard white ps4 that was quiet until I gave it to my son, he dont clean it, now it sounds like a jet ...

[Bathyj]

Ive never cleaned a console in 40 years. Closest I've come is blowing in a cartridge.

[kingPoS]

Lucky you. Btw what model is your pro, mines the white Destiny 2 edition.

Gateway MT6706 2008

[Bathyj]

Don't know the number. Black one. Bought it when the Pro first came out.

[IRetrouk]

I found if the internals get too dusty it gets loud, you must live in the cleanest environment ever not to have to hoover your consoles lol fair play.

[Storm23]

Mine is the same way. Launch Pro and I never hear that thing.

[RaidenBlack]

The side ventilation ports/slits of both the Pro and One X gets a bit clogged up with dust ... so I clean them once a year.

[SpinalRemains138]

Non smoker?

[andy85]

Same. The earlier Pro models were a bit noisy for me but I got the Death Stranding version and I've not heard the fan kick in, they must have done some decent improvements

[Profchaos]

The latest iterations have dramatically improved the launch model was notoriously bad I have the launch model if I don't keep on top of cleaning the fan every six months it gets bad

[ziggurcat]

When did you get your Pro?

Mine's a Day 1 model, and it can get loud at times - so much so that I have had to start putting on the subtitles in games to know what's going on in the cutscenes.

[Bathyj]

I bought it as soon as the Pro came out.

[1nsomniac]

It’s really weird that people are willing to say stuff like this.

The noise from the fan is not caused solely from dust. It’s primary function is to cool the CPU. ALL these CPUs are being pushed to their absolute limits, it’s the end of their lifecycle, therefore their thermals spike rapidly whether your PS4 is dusty or not. It’s going to be loud, just not aircraft loud like some but it’s still loud whether you claim it is or not. Sony have acknowledged that their console is insanely loud numerous times, which is why they’ve pushed it as a primary concern for the ps5.

I’m one of those who had an aircraft carrier under my TV. So I literally striped the console cleaned it all. There wasn’t particularly any real build up of dust in there. Got rid of the thermal paste and applied liquid metal instead.... yes it is still loud but at least it doesn’t sound like a jet engine anymore.

[elazz]

Ive put it up standing
Changed to a Nidec Fan and used GelID Extreme to change thermal paste+ thermal grizzly for the memory. Quite a welcome improvements from jet engine in the last of us 2 to barely noticeable fan.

But it's true a consumer shouldn't do all the hassle.

[kingPoS]

Ditto for Dreams and Resi Evil 2. I could play Borderlands 3 all day, but the moment I start either of the other two, the fan immediately kicks into high gear

Gateway MT6706 2008

[Profchaos]

I don't think anyone ever denied it well except for some firmly in the Sony can do no wrong camps I've found it quite worrying to hear my console struggle so much like it's about to crash

[kneon]

I haven't played COD since last generation , but I remember it being loud on the menu screen on the ps3 as well. Which is odd since the game isn't doing much at that point

[FanboysKiller]

Grear news.

[Rainbowcookie]

With grear power comes grear responsibility 😊

[sourOG]

I f***ing love it

[a08andan]

Did anyone else think the sound in godfall sounded amazing? I am no audiophile by any stretch of the imagination, but that sound in Godfall... It felt so good!!! I might be just that game though. :D

[chiefJohn117]

Its cool after 80 minutes of play 😲 thats amazing!!!!

[SullysCigar]

Yeah, that's great news! Someone said the XSX test kits were overheating, so hopefully they can bring them up to the same standard as PS5.

[chiefJohn117]

Definitely, MS can learn from this

[Chris12]

You have no idea how the PS5 sounds as this was a controlled environment. Get them in peoples homes and try them without the control. And MS don't need to learn anything from Sony, as they have previously made consoles sound like jet engines. The whole overheating console BS has already been debunked as well FYI.

Sony still seem scared to let people use their console or have a tear down. So little transparency is going to be a concern.

[SullysCigar]

^ That's it, Chris12, let the hatred flow through you...let it fill you, consume you...then join us and buy a PS5! ;^D

[Chris12]

Jesus you talk some shit. Enjoy your denial of the facts.

[SullysCigar]

^ Oh c'mon Chris12, let's be buddies - I'll let you play on my PlayStation 5 and you can experience the gaming goodness you've been missing out on all this time! :^)

[leahcim]

I think that if the ps5 keeps cool when I play Dreams PS5 edition, that would be a miracle.

Right now it seems like my ps4 gonna explode in any moment (I´am in the creative mode of Dreams...)

[Limitedtimestruggle]

The unit in question is placed in an open space, the optimal placement for a gaming console! But it is indeed very promising to hear. Although, man people do tend to tuck their boxed in the tightest areas lol. But this console being so big...it's harder to cram inside small spaced!

[Neonridr]

To be honest it was only the original Pro models that had a noise problem. They seemed to have addressed it when the revisions came out. My 500 million Pro is so much quieter. Can't say I notice any instances where the fan kicks up into high gear like the OG one did, but I could be mistaken.

[RazzerRedux]

I think you are correct. I have the special edition Spider-man PS4 Pro and it barely makes a sound.

[Neonridr]

yeah I have the 500 million and I agree

[nRicosS]

I have 3 kind of ps4, fat 20th, slim luna & pro 500 million. I don't have any noise problem, maybe because I don't play any demanding games like uc or gow (mostly jrpg & pes)

[Neonridr]

I think the OG Pro's had a problem with their fans kicking in. My original Pro would kick up every once in a while and sound like a 747 taking off (obviously embellishing a little)

[S2Killinit]

That SOUNDS great! Eh? Eh?

[Weapon_of_choice]

Got yah😆

[DeadManMMX]

Cool my PS4 Pro and my original PS4 sound line the X-Men’s blackbird Jet. This is great news.

[Weapon_of_choice]

Clean the heat pipes. Pro is a little more work, but guaranteed no jet sounds afterwards. Needs this roughly once a year. See youtube 4 guides.

[Sophisticated_Chap]

Geez, that's one hell of a big console. Just seeing it sitting beside that guy is something else.

[Machina]

Hope the noise thing is true. Really hate noisy consoles. The Xbox 360 was the absolute worst; sounded like a small jet engine in your lounge/bedroom. The PS4 is better than that obviously, but my PS4 Pro still gets fairly loud at times. If the PS5 is truly near-silent then that's great news.

[Relientk77]

Astroboy looks so good. I can't wait. Give me 3D platformers

[Kaii]

Pretty coooooooool >.> ./ehem

[OCEANGROWNKUSH]

My ps4 pro has luckily never had any loud fan noises i hear people complain about. I Keep my console in a well ventilated open space, also frequently dust and clean all ports on all my consoles i have hooked up.

[Weapon_of_choice]

Sony brilliance; no noise, no overheating and no loading times, guaranteed exclusives AND Demon Souls. Everything I wished for...

[Rambokind]

"Xbox X exploded after 80 minutes of gameplay"

[waverider]

The ps5 is an amazing piece of tech with very cool design. This year will be Hard to get one...

[Weapon_of_choice]

I will be hard when I get one.

[Weapon_of_choice]

Some say the Xbox-X is getting so hot all exclusives went up in smoke....

[franwex]

That is such good news to me. PS3, and PS4 were mini heaters that got loud. Good job Sony!

[Artemidorus]

Give it a couple of years it will soon sound like a hoover with more demand.

[northpaws]

Xbox fanboys...
Xbox is quiet: it is the king of consoles
PS5 is quiet: it is a controlled environment, wait after 3 months, the console is not even on... 🤣

[ironmonkey]

Keeps getting better and better

[AnotherGamer]

Oh thank god!

[Imortus_san]

Hands on what? They did not showed the PS5 at all, ridiculous.

[Yobo5]

Why isn't there an english demo of this? seriously. On top of being vague all this time they cant even be bothered to present something we can understand.

[Vetalka83]

80 minutes huh,that is nice now let's try it my way do it for 16 hours!!!

[sromoli]

Are they talking about ps5 or DevKit?

[BenRC01]

So are we finally admitting the ps4 pro fan was a disaster? That's nice, thanks everyone. Worst piece of hardware EVER. BTW, ps4 pro was silent in the forst few months....

[mch2011uk]

Playstation 4 had no fan noise till months after you've played it.

[MetroidFREAK21]

Cool, sounds great. Can't wait to pick mine up on November 12th

[somethingcool87]

Lol, "It's too difficult to die" in Demon Souls?:D:D The controllers I've broken would beg to differ:D
(I know its the translation, but still cracked me up)

[G4M3R_4_L1F3]

interested in seeing how the fans sound after hours of extended play sessions over time

[Master of Unlocking]

My PS4 Pro hardly made any noise too, at first. Then, 2-3 years later, in an old and dusty house whose owner happens to be a smoker, when it's a hot summer and that owner is playing a game that more or less taxes the HW like Ass.C. Odyssey or God f War... *ahem*
It'll probably be the same here, and so will it on the Xbox Series X.