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this might appear to be a normal original Xbox but what's inside it is haha from normal now lots of people have done pcs in an Xbox chassis before and for being honest the finish on some of those is better than what we've done here but every other project we've found either compromised on the form factor like adding more space to the bottom or compromised on the performance with most of them rocking a mid tier gaming graphics card at best well compromise is not the Linus tech tips way we will settle for nothing less than the first Xbox with support for real-time rate racing nothing less than the fastest Xbox ever getting all that performance in here wasn't easy though so let's take a look at what it took to make our latest sleeper PC Patrice brought to you by our sponsor madrenas madrenas coffee blend specialty cold brew coffee Xin 215 ounce grab-and-go cans for everyone's convenience check them out and use offer code Linus to save 40% we'll have that linked below so the very first thing we need to do is just make sure that everything that we have here fits so we have this g-force our TX 2070 from ZOTAC and it it should fit in like I did some CAD and everything fits in theory but we have I think three millimeters of space on the side so wow that's a really long screw for those of you freaking out we got this xbox in non working condition for ten dollars so don't stress out about us destroying vintage gaming hardware this assembly was about what you'd expect inside the Xbox one not to be confused with the Xbox one is basically a normal computer with the majority of the internal space being used for a disc reader and a mechanical hard drive well we won't be meeting either of those anymore let's do a test fit for this sleeper we'll be using one of Zoet acts epic mini graphics cards in this case an RT X 27 T and a core i5 8400 six core CPU now compared to some of our other sleepers Patrice's performance isn't as over-the-top but we're working with a passively cooled HD Plex power supply and we wanted to save as much of our power budget as possible for the graphics card besides we figured chances are anything more powerful would have thermal throttled anyway it seems like everything will fit we just need to make sure it all works together and more importantly that our power supply is actually able to handle it all so don't mind the mess at this stage this is just for testing purposes power there I'm short at the pins and no hello yeah it's passed test number one but we do need to get a monitor and keyboard and make sure that it's actually I was like run Windows and crap so we got into Windows no problem everything's working that's kind of expected but the real test here is when I hit start it might shut down and if it does we're gonna have to rethink the whole thing so so far so good how are you gonna get all of that stuff in there that's the thing I want to discuss with you so poorly is basically the answer that's not an answer well it kind of so we can do two things we can either have it be really powerful yeah or look good on the inside and I don't think there's a way to have both of those things okay sleepers let's bring it back to cars Mme so sleepers have to look bone stock from the outside that we agree on and sleepers have to be just head turning we fast off the line yeah is there any rule that says they have to be gorgeous inside no then I guess we know what to do you're gonna need ventilation holes on the bottom of the case yeah okay like you're gonna need to cut away the bottom of the case pretty much yeah you might have to achieve up a bit of this plastic shroud as well in fact you just remove it and move it yeah yeah I mean what's it what's even do other than look cool yeah yeah I think we need to go in that way then we have the perforation in the bottom this thing shouldn't even overheat perfect her act cuz we're gonna perf or eight and that's my cue to exit goodbye our methods for C and seeing sheet aluminum have improved significantly since our previous attempt in Margaret we now have a single flute end mill and double-sided tape that doesn't gum up the bit giving us excellent results this means that we should end up with perfect mounting points for our hardware and much better rigidity compared to the paper thin metal that's currently in here off camera I did a prototype Bend with with our little Vice break here and it's we could just but it's not good enough no so we have a solution okay I took the credit card and we we got a we got a really big thing that's going over here do you want to do you want to come oh that kind of solution is this safe how are you supposed to move these things oh that's why you guys are all here okay ah okay how much was this like 800 bucks wow that's actually not as bad I was expecting exchange just based on the weight yeah no it was actually very on sale we got a good deal I wanted to buy the three thousand dollar one all right well then in that case good work Alex all right fun fun fun actually this is not that bad six people wait so this countertop is gonna be basically unusable for like weeks months who signed off on this um you said you don't care that's the actual quote of what you said about it alright okay hold on so you guys go ahead and come out why do you get the coolest toys around here Brandon also gets really cool toys that's true but I think this one's cooler and how do you pick the angle you want your eyeball immolate it kind of eyeball it okay and then you unlock it down and then uh boom there you go you done bent some metal there boy so for bending sheet metal kind of the best way to do it is to use this what they call blue layout dye and that lets you come in you just cover it it dries really fast and you can scribe directly on it and get this super high contrast and also very precise line we have a plan here that just tells us all of our dimensions where the bends need to be and also I've numbered each Bend because like if you bend let's say number six before number one you won't be able to complete it because the bend will hit the rest of that as it goes around since the part wasn't designed with this break in mind a couple of the bends were pretty sketchy vitu got all of the critical dimensions correct and was miles ahead of the previous prototype so we consider it a success the next step was a test fit and oh no don't worry mr. Linus so it was at this point that we confirmed the stock fans and shroud from our graphics card would need to be removed while he was at it Alex replaced the original thermal paste with some crown OTT since we're gonna need all the help we can get when it comes to cooling with our replacement liner prepared the old liner was forcibly removed and all of the old mounting needs to come out now with lots of dremel and oh wow that fits like a glove now you have to make some holes for the motherboard and GPU there yeah this is this is really the point of no return right here like the stuff on the inside you can't tell but if I screw this one up geez we're just we're just done first the bulk was removed with a cutting disk then Alex brought it closed with a grinding bit finishing off with a file for a nice smooth cut so uh what's about to happen is not for the squeamish so the DVI connector here it goes in like this and unfortunately it kind of interferes with where the power connector is going to be ten out of ten would not recommend doing this to your GPU but now DVI connector list card got blown out with compressed air to ensure that no metal shards would shorted out then it was taped up and reassembled but that actually wasn't the end of the carnage for this poor thing the i/o shield needed to be first flattened out and then cut down to size to fit into the extremely small space we have for it next all of the holes that we needed in the bottom of the case were drilled out and a fan intake was cut into the bottom a hole was added for the power connector not because this is the best time for that step but rather because we forgot to do it before and then the sheet metal interior was ready to be riveted together we're actually getting pretty close to final product here so the blue layout dye that was covering it was removed with acetone and then our liner was given a coat of black paint while that dried the hole for the GPU i/o was created with the Dremel and we were ready for a real test fit since the original GPUs fans ended up being too big smaller ones were added using zip ties fitting everything in a case like this is difficult even with purpose-built parts as for our machine well everything does have its place but getting it in is another story like the GPU is so close to the motherboard that even the i/o cover needed to be removed for it to all fit but lo and behold everything did fit now it's just time to make sure that it all still works oh nice like it's showing up over there oh wow it just worked I honestly wasn't expecting it to just work I figured I'd have to do at least one little kajigger ring damn that's that's not the power button look I didn't have an Xbox already that can be controlled right yeah like that can be dialed back yeah if you want it to be full-blown sleep or you can just be like Kabam okay is it supposed to be green yeah okay I'm enjoying this it's not especially quiet I wouldn't describe it as crazy loud either though and the exhaust system that you've built such as it were does seem to be working like there's definitely warm air coming out so let's see what kind of performance we can expect out of this thing a hundred and thirty-two 160 fps not bad get that glory kid oh so we're seeing 84 degrees 96 percent GPU usage though so we're definitely hitting it hard and then our core clock is here here is in like the 1413 high 14 lows okay so it's like a radar base should we hook it up in its new home sure so right down here guys we've got the Xbox one x vs you could call this like an x-box you know it's got that X Factor it's Patrice Patrice sure apparently the One X runs at 60fps what compromises are they making here I mean the Xbox one X is what like an RX 480 or something like that well okay so fine the Xbox 1x runs at a higher frame rate and is probably less buggy than the PC version okay that's not shut up you're in a field there's like four trees Oh God so this is a little overpowered for most like local multiplayer PC gaming experiences isn't it are you saying we should have put less power in it I'm saying the power we put in it might have been unnecessary oops oh I know I would meant to I meant to put it down in my hand or in this this is this is just hard to this is hard to watch Oh have you slide X I believe yep that works okay cool I can't believe they saved that they're better than us so far but they're not very good I can't find the ball I like doesn't really have no idea for the ball they quit we're that bad and we still won this is gonna be awesome once we have this like all set up and everything I mean this aspect of it is basically good to go like we can't plug wired controllers in from the front we've got Wireless Xbox controller so any you can use any kind of controller you want because if someone wants a ps4 controller or whatever they can just plug in a wire like this is freaking awesome and it's so stealth it's our most useful sleeper ever so we've got one terabyte of storage now because we're using a one terabyte m2 boot drive but I suspect we're gonna want to add a larger game library I mean the worst case scenario is we grab an external port terabyte hard drive and plug it into USB 3 is that resolution just you can't set any other resolution you know what I bet if we just exit the game again and try again like rocket League it'll just it'll just get its act together this is like really not a great sales pitch for PC gaming it's really great after you a config file and then you I'm just seeing if it has that no I don't see an obvious wait I doubt it oh all right oh heck yeah here we go okay ah I can't do this on the console yeah you wouldn't want to cuz it's a really really bad experience but 3840 by 2160 fullscreen I bet I have to change that to true okay let's just see if there's anything else we should probably change in here that all looks fine piece of gaming find the parameters change the parameters and then oh it's time to go to bed you missed out on your gaming time tonight that looks better you hook dammit why is this necessary oh that looks so much better that was worth it yes okay ah campaign yeah sure I don't understand what weapon I had oh I have a flamethrower oh cool nice do you that Cleo Pete yes yeah Oh doesn't make a difference like do all the guys have different wet yeah they do did you kill me guy god you killed just the whole like MacGyver throws dynamite okay well I didn't know there you have it we built the world's most powerful gaming Xbox take that Microsoft there were some anomalies with Forza but we're gonna blame we're gonna blame Microsoft for that they stack the deck in their favor so all that's left then is to tell you about today's video sponsored freshbooks is the small business accounting software that's custom-built for how you want to work it's a simple way to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster if you're a freelancer or if you're self-employed you can 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