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Sonne couldn't sit by while Nintendo raked in money for making a Nintendo classic and so they made the ps1 classic we're gonna take it apart today didn't come with a power cable and I don't have a phone charger here so we're gonna take it apart instead of playing it and this is well it's called the SCP H 1000 R and it is the ps1 remade into a box that is lighter than my phone so that's gonna be some quality parts in there but to be fair how much do you really need to play 24 year old games so this thing runs the pcs X emulator officially it runs the pcs X rearmed emulator which is a modified version of the pcs X reloaded emulator for ARM processors which is a modified version of PCs X so it's it's got an emulator on it it's probably running an ARM processor give them a name we're going to take it apart and see if we can identify the components what they do and how good the build quality is of this this thing before that this video is brought to you by EVGA SRT X 20 atti XE ultra video card we recently use this to beat our founders edition overclocking results with its additional power target headroom and cooling capabilities the XE Ultra uses a 2.7 extra thick heatsink for a quiet operation under low loads but also maintains higher clocks on average over the FE model learn more at the link in the description below first up the notes here we're gonna take this one apart today and then we're gonna do a separate teardown of an original ps1 controller that we bought used but the good news is it's so old that all of the bacteria on here is probably dead by now we're gonna take this apart and this apart and look at the two and see how accurate the PSone classics version of the original ps1 non DualShock controller is so we have one of each year so we're gonna do that and you would be not at all surprised at how cheap those are these days so we're gonna do this one today and first of all I should note that by today's standards to obviously to produce the quality of game at ps1 runs you really don't need much you definitely don't need this much surface area for your parts I mean any modern phone is even more powerful than this that is evidenced by the price tag of nothing else and so you don't need much which means that if we kind of tap on this you'll hear that it is pretty much hollow all the way through so it's fine I could be a whole lot in there for us to look at but also first thing I did was try and start taking this thing out looks only parallel i/o port and apparently this is a thing that happened even on a an updated version of the original ps1 when they took away the i/o port and replace it with plastic so that doesn't come out but if we look over the fin first your disc replica doesn't actually run them memory card slots that don't have memory cards but it's all just for the looks right it's all for for posterity and then USB controllers which is actually much appreciated especially being plug them into a computer or something and that's really all there is to it not much venting or ventilation here at all this is all fake so that's all just embellishments and you can see the metal through here so technically convinced a bit but it's not really gonna get hot so let's take it apart we have Philips size zero screws to start with and there's gonna be one two three four five that are revealed and then sometimes they like to hide one under these stickers or under these feet so we'll see if we can if we can find them all easily this is a pretty easy component to take apart but I'll track the screws on arm out honor our mod mat anyway which has a video card diagram on it same idea there you can get one at store dock here in Texas net if you do like what you see just for screw tracking although this is five so pretty easy our last two console nice bunch of plastic came out with it our last two console tear downs were the Nintendo switch the joy con controller teardown which was after that and the Xbox one X teardown so today like I said we're gonna do this one first and then after we're done with this one we'll have a separate video on the controllers comparing the old to new was trivial hey I have an idea let's put holes in the bottom for ventilation and then obstruct them with a film I mean again it's high it's not really generating any heat so who cares I guess I mean it's it's pulling less wattage than a phone does when it's under load so you got to kind of keep that perspective underside here the first thing that's revealed is not much it's a custom-fit PCB it does in fact take up most of the surface area you got a big block here that's not used but they're not gonna make it device shaped like that so the PCB itself only has a couple of kind of standard caps you find these on everything video cards motherboards so small caps smaller caps some small SMDs and this PCB is like it's labeled side B and then it's also LM 11 and I don't know if this is probably a PCB model number but LM 11 and then 94 o to O 11 Sony interactive entertainment incorporated some solder joints on here so these are just solder joints where they attached the i/o and the charging ports let's get to the other side that's where the interesting stuff is so if you took your own apart for some reason just be advised that the screw sizes are different they're smaller on the inside you just tear down possible I guess we want to apply separate this and it is probably secured by thermal pad so let's go there what's holding us down throne pad thick thermal pad connecting to an appropriately sized albeit and pathetic by our standards but for this kind of device again the amount of heat you're dissipating is just irrelevant it barely shows up anywhere so there's your heat sink no active cooling does not need it which is ultimately a positive and for the components that's where we can kind of start looking at stuff the shell is an ABS plastic and that's for this outer shell that's an ABS plastic for the inner components these are switches these are switches so where do those which buttons do those so you can see power button right there so power button reset button open button which I believe is used for the game switching or something like that how empowered Anya let's get rid of the throne pad this toolkit we're using is just from our iFixit pro tect toolkit and I will link that below if you're interested in that so there's a throttle pad how thick is that that would be useful information if you needed this is the kind of thing I could see drying up in a couple of years and needing to be replaced so if you had issues with shut down thermal shut down so we can at least figure out the thickness of this thing it's a 2 millimeter if they don't that roughly any tighter and I'm going to rip it so that's about two millimeters so over here we have a samsung flash module so there's gonna be NAND based memory says you're emmc NAND flash and we'll talk about this part moment as well these two modules right here these are ddr3 modules and we have two of those so this pad can come off but it's not hiding anything there's no reason to remove it that's just for mounting pressure to fit everything cleanly the parks in more depth starting with the two most important ones the SOC is a mediatek mt6752 I co Nia the CPU is a 64-bit quad-core whose memory controller can communicate with ddr3 lpddr3 and ddr4 we can show an a 35 block diagram from arm to better illustrate the architecture at a top level though if you need a refresher on that the CPU proper is an 8 35 cortex at 1.5 gigahertz although we don't know if Sony has made any modifications to there's the a 35 is arms smallest processor design and as an efficiency focused low-power chip that has an FPU on each core of which there or four of those and that's along side blocks of d cache and I cache their shared l2 cache for all cores and although ECC is optional it probably is not used in the ps1 and this is clearly not powerful by modern standards keep in mind that the original ps1 used a thirty three point nine megahertz 32-bit processor our ASC processor by LSI and that company has since been bought and sold multiple parent companies in the last couple of years even this SOC is working with power VR as GE 8300 IGP which is capable of about 32 FP thirty-two flops per clock also not that powerful but the original ps1 had a max resolution of 640 by 480 and a flat shading poly throughput of 360,000 polygons per second actually isn't bad but it goes down to a 180,000 Poly's per second when you text your map them and it goes down to 90,000 when you add lighting to the texture mapping and shading this worked alongside a geometry coprocessor for the original ps1 for vector math and matrix multiplies it also had two kilobytes 2 KB of texture cache that operated at 132 megabytes per second on on the memory bus which was 32 bits so it's a 32 bit wide memory interface 132 megabytes per second just just for perspective modern memory interfaces are in the hundreds of gigabytes per second as for the and that's for something like a high-end GP as to the emmc that's Samsung's and it's the KLM a g1j ETD of - be zero for one we got a hold of the datasheet for this one and we found that its density is 16 gigabytes there's one of these modules on the board unfortunately pricing was difficult to get because it's an AOL part so while we found prices they were all hyper inflated due to the lack of availability and Sony certainly got better prices than we could find online so it's not even worth listing the prices we found just they're not accurate at all next the ddr3 is Samsung's k4b 4G one six four six e - B yma which is an 1866 magnet per second for gigabit memory solution organized an 8 by 512 clusters and offering that 1.3 5 volts these seem to cost about 10 cents each for a few thousand units but pricing again is difficult to ascertain because these chips to REO l for reference the original ps1 used 2 megabytes of RAM and one megabyte of video ram that covers the PCB and all the components in depth and then finally the shell here is pretty straightforward ABS plastic you can see the almost cherry style plus sign for the actuated switch all that does is push down on the gold switch that you see right here you can push it with your finger to it and it's just a spring button that's that is all there is to the plastic shell there's nothing else special about that underside it's just an underside and then some metal sheets too that are on actually attach the plastic not to on to the a clear sheet of plastic rather than the casing so that's just to cover up the holes I don't know if that's probably more for the looks than anything because thermally it shouldn't really matter all that much that's the ps1 classic so the sum of its sum of its parts isn't particularly high I mean those components are mostly eol so Sony probably got them from supplier he just had a ton of them left over trying to get rid of them or already had a bunch on their own as a product we always don't have any opinions yet on how good of a gaming experience it is if you wanted to revisit stuff we do have content coming up on that so we will be soon talking about the value of this it's kind of kind of really minimizing when when you're holding up this and knowing that you could actually just use this to play the games I don't need to reassemble it you can just plug it in and it would work fine so this we will be revisiting is it worth buying one of these and playing the old games on it or going some other route so make sure you're subscribed for that but otherwise some of the parts they're not expensive sony has some pretty good margin here especially because it does seem like a rather hacked together last-minute project they could have done a lot of really cool things with this and we'll talk about all of that in a separate video so that's it for the teardown though so next we need to do is subscribe check back for the controller disassembly and comparison against the original so we're going to look for and this one it's a it's more of a feel test as a mechanical thing so from a human factors standpoint how well have they replicated the feel of using the old original controller with these replicas because that is an important characteristic for any kind of retro console remake and that'll be it for this one so subscribe as always for more store documents access net to pick up a mod mat like the one we used in this video or the shirt that I'm wearing now except not literally this one and I'll see you all next time