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everyone today we're turned on the Xbox one X once we are inside of the same the plan is to put some thermocouples on it the thermal testing and just a teaser here we have some new tools that will allow us to begin benchmarking console games so you'll want to subscribe for that but this thing supposedly has a vapor chamber inside of it it is quite a bit of mass in an otherwise small body so the plan is to dismantle it show you how that process works and then we're gonna be looking at the thermal solution more closely along with the other components within and if you are worried that the new Xbox one X would not have ventilation large enough for roaches to crawl into and die in we just bought a used old one for parts and that's what was in there good news they can still do that so if you buy one from a pawn shop like we did keep that in mind before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by EVGA and NVIDIA with the destiny to 1080 TI bundle a 1080i SC to comes with a synchronous fan control for its dual fans and nine thermal sensors and again includes destiny to learn more at the link in the description below so the Xbox one X we just picked up this is brand new just to clarify the one from a pawn shop is the previous Xbox 1s whatever it was and we bought that so that will have the old cooler the heat pipe plus aluminum finned usual heatsink this one's got a vapor chamber heatsink if we can swap them we'll try it out just to see how effective it actually is but that depends on the mounting spacing so this thing looking at it straight away has two screws in the back but if you don't know the specs already from a PC hardware enthusiasts perspective it's basically got a more powerful rx Polaris chip in it so this has four TCU's whereas for reference and rx 580 has thirty sixty years each CU has 64 cores so with 40 verses 36 there's a decent power uplift in terms of performance and in terms of other specs that are derived from that it means that you end up with 2560 stream processors versus 23:04 64 for CU and assuming the same layout on this version of Polaris as on desktop you would also be at 160 texture map units RTM use as opposed to the previous count which is you just multiply four by the Cu count and that would also give us a texture fill rate of 275 Gigot axles per second as opposed to 193 Giga texels per second previously which you can calculate because it's just the clock multiplied by the TM use and the Xbox one X has a clock of 1720 megahertz so again for perspective with the clock of 17 20 megahertz we're a couple hundred megahertz over rx 580 clocks making it pretty interesting and it's also got a faster it has more memory bandwidth that 326 gigabytes per second as opposed to 256 and being in a console it's gonna be hand tuned for by the game developers so should be pretty difficult to beat cost for cost with a PC these days thanks to the D Ram prices and GPU prices and things like that but let's take it apart see what it looks like inside because that's what's gonna matter so first off we have the up screws and we're gonna need to find one of these which I think we actually do have this head I mean it'll work yeah this torque sound will definitely work but it's pretty rounded out ahead alright one I think there's probably one hidden in here so same screw type alright okay two screws out anything else or is that it now I should note picking oh well well there's our next step picking this up at the store the attendant told me oh you got the Scorpio version that has large letters on it and in big letters it says project Scorpio on it alright so this slides forward this is actually pretty nice so far in terms of easy to manage design there you go it's got rails on it so rails here our two screws socket back there ventilation ports oh no it's actually facade over here some ventilation here none on the front to facade oh no it's real on the side okay so you've got side ventilation and facade on the front and underneath that we have this we use Torx ten a second ago looks like about the same things gonna work here yes oh so I can already tell you that based on this pattern here I'm thinking that's the vapor chamber start with the start with the silver screws oh man that's that's enough to kill a vampire with these this one does not okay so these longer ones have a flattened out head if you look at the ones near it it's got the rounded screw head so that makes them easy to spot so we're gonna start with just removing all those with the flatter head and then see if the cage comes free I'm thinking all the other parts are secured to that okay so this is a very easy job apparently this right here is what's securing us at this point so I think when you smaller head for that okay it's your nine dude no no that's right ribbon cable up here so we're gonna disconnect that by pulling that out and pulling that down just like a laptop and then this thing just comes out or that does actually connect to something as well so what is that we don't know yet this goes over to the IR receiver so there's your remote basically infrared receiver and then over here what is this this anything yet okay so what is this oh USB should have looked on the side of the thing we can have the front of the console would have revealed that I'll just put that back in there isn't a real reason to remove it okay so internal housing pretty easy we can move that to the side I don't really need that anymore so this side we've now revealed not positive what comes out next at this point we're gonna start with the last of the flathead screws flathead is and it has a flat top if anyone was wondering this unit went through production on August 30th 2017 so that's how recently these were made or at least that part was made anyway oh that's the hard drive I just loosened hey hey yeah hard drives already loose next side okay cool it's very easy so far so here's a shell internal part of it anyway well it's a ventilation and meshing not really a big deal all this stuff I do need to know which week is back on though and underneath we have a fan that looks like a 120 might be like a weird 112 or something actually which I believe I think the original or the previous Xbox was on a 112 millimeter fan so it looks like around there we'll find out blade drive is connected by SATA standard SATA you can see it right there and then next that we've got power it's got a rubber rubber sheath on it for vibration damping its power supplies right here this is a 245 watt power supply I believe and that should just be a pull to release yep there's our power supply power connector 245 Watts 2.75 apps yeah 1.3 amps I'll swear that's about all you need to know about the battery so that's an insulated cable going down this side this is all I'm very methodical I do have to give Microsoft credits just coming apart extremely easily amp and the amp header so yeah there's our optical drive with the rubber thing on it a Model D g6 m5s if anyone needs a replacement one of those in the future its d g6 m5s and that connects via SATA to a SATA header on the board that's labeled the optical disc drive SATA a hard drive also connected via SATA so this is a mobile drive it's a one terabyte drive retails for $65 on Newegg kind of twenty eight megabytes of cash as for the speed only 5400 RPM on this one data transfer rate up to 140 megabytes per second so if you replace this with an SSD you're gonna be in better shape of course but that's not a surprise to anyone that there's our drive let's just put that over here they have actually secured it with rubber damped hard drive screws let's get this monster cooler out so here's the fan listed as a thermal system fan oh one AKA fan and a heatsink so the fan of the heatsink assembly is a a blower fan so that's a blower radial fan not an axial fan that's for diameter it might even be like a 100 so 100 to 120 have to remove the fans really no but or not no 120 102 112 and oh I mean it's just a it's just a blower fan just like you would have with a video card heatsink spins the air just goes through this channel and that is housing the vapor chamber which is just an aluminum heatsink with a copper cold plate that's got the liquid inside of it so that you get the phase change so we can remove this and take a look at that but it's it's the same as every other vapor chamber we've ever looked at what is this this is your power from the wall that goes down in the corner over here and power brick is right here all of this is really modular which is awesome because that means it's gonna be easy to replace stuff as a user without Microsoft's help so they've numbered these and I think it has to do with the disassembly process which is also pretty cool so if we take a look back here it says fan o one right there and fan o one would have I mean it would have been the easiest remove that first there's accompanied by power O 2 if you can see that and then the blu-ray drive in front of me is labeled as disco 3 and the hard drive is labeled as hard drive oh for so seriously big credits have Microsoft are building a console that doesn't completely suck to take apart that's pretty uncommon I'm labeling the stuff in the order it disassembles is great it probably helps there RMA process but it indirectly helps consumers who are trying to maintain their own thin so ok let's look at what's next oh hey it's got the scorpion on it so that a Master Chief that's the Master Chief talked about in the Easter Egg see that master chief riding a scorpion I don't think that was in the original tear downs that went on YouTube this is a alright so we've got a Master Chief in the corner and let's do the let's get the vapor chamber off of here it's got a pretty good cooling system on it I mean it's just it's a giant version of a reference card so I am tempted to play around with it and see what we can do but for now that's what's got stock these are smaller it's a good way to remove this feel like if you removed this you can rip components have to replace that thermal pad it might be a screw in the opposing side which that's the case would kind of suck because I don't have to take the whole board out I just gotta be another screw on there's like that what is this anyway wireless wireless okay anyone through that so that's Wireless this is a salsa wireless Wi-Fi to different MAC addresses it's two different wireless cards all right that they're all pad is syncing the bridge the one of the chipset into the body so some sort of basic dissipation there this is a flash module so some onboard storage use for your probably firmware I think it also acts as a cache the RM components are on the other side for the most part that we have a few inductors around the outer edge and then let's finally get this damn thing off somehow Wow looks like they bent those into place right about ready to give up on this just stuck one of these in here and kind of twisted it like that and lo and behold it comes off super easily so I thought this was gonna be like sort of bent to shape to keep people out but all you need to do is stick something in there to to pop it up alright cool a weird plug to provide resistance and we should now be able to remove this all of that pulling later okay so a bunch of thermal pad whatever the left of it I'll replace that one and still have the thermal pads on the vram so what we have three six eight 12 so 12 gigabytes one gigabit modules they are Samsung modules so 12 gigabytes of memory and we have the APU here let's clean that off that is some hardened paste taking some lessons from Intel on that one it's like rubber I'm not sure that's really gonna do a lot for you unfortunately we can't test thermals without removing this stuff this doesn't have an internal sensor we can access so we're gonna have to go the thermocouple route if we do go that route and have promises yet and that means we can't do it before and after we can only do an after but I mean I can pull it off in plastic pieces so if you ever need to replace the thermal paste on yours this is where you'd be just be careful and not rip off any of the SM DS around the silicon on the outside don't use your fingernails too aggressively this thing is four hours old or less I mean to be fair that heatsink was date stamped as July the internal chassis was stamped as August so it's been made for a while but so vapor chamber sits atop this and there is your die or die cover anyway Wow it even says 4k in the bottom right or left rather really so we need 4k on there what's Xbox one 4k and that is the APU I'm pretty sure that's what we have here I think what we have is a four phase VRM for the GPU and is maybe a single for the CPU if not a dual but it really looks like a single and here's why they've done the work for us they've labeled it graphics phase one graphics phase three graphics phase four drive X phase two CPU phase no number so yeah I think that's what we have we have five total phases actually now yeah five total phases one of which is for the CPU and four for the video card okay so that's pretty much it for the teardown a couple small things like a PC speaker on here and then for the vapor chamber I mean it's it's a vapor chamber it's what you always see copper plate in the bottom and aluminum fins on the top and then it's got a separate aluminum plate contacting the vrm components which sinks just into the fin stack it doesn't actually sink into the vapor chamber part the copper part in the bottom so that covers it that is the Xbox one X it's not too hard to take apart the only trick is is popping the retention kit from the back of this off but once you figure that out that's pretty easy too so that's it we're gonna rebuild it now and I'm not sure about thermal testing not going to promise it yet but we do have some game testing planned that may take priority so subscribe for more as always you can go to store doc 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