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Xbox One X Scorpio Teardown and Reassembly

2017-10-02
I'm here at Microsoft's Redmond campus and I have somehow convinced them to let me take apart their new Xbox one X and now you're gonna come along with me as I reassemble the entire thing starting at the very base with the Scorpio engine I buy power and MSI's new lineup of gaming laptops featured Intel 7th generation Core i7 processors check them out at the link below we're gonna start with the heart of the system the Scorpio engine as I mentioned earlier it's what insiders call an SOC or system on a chip that means it has your CPU and GPU on board the CPU is eight cores running at 2.3 gigahertz and the GPU is running at one point seven two gigahertz with four TCU's at six teraflops per second and has other various Polaris features as well as this was a combined project with AMD you can't just go buy this chip it was made for the Xbox one X circling around the Scorpio engine you have 12 gigs of gddr5 memory running at 326 gigabytes per second and this entire area is cooled by one large vapor chamber cooler that has an area in the bottom this is why it's called a vapor chamber that has liquid in it and it actually evaporates from the bottom of this area just to the top and naturally goes to the colder areas of this copper plate before cooling through the fins by the way if you want to hear more about vapor chamber cooling check out our tech cookie video on it right up here flipping over to the back side of the board we have the Southbridge and eight gigs of onboard flash which is used both for housing part of the operating system and as a cache for the hard drive said hard drive just goes into this little corner in the front and actually has some cool tech going around it is a Seagate one terabyte hard drive but it is on suspended elastic housing so that vibrations from the hard drive shouldn't interfere with the rest of the case or make any noise or bother anything and that gets carried forward to this plastic block which manages the cables coming out from the hard drive to ensure that they don't touch anything else like the optical drive that's mounted above it to connect it with the actual system it's just a SATA port directly across from the plastic block and a power connector directly across from the SATA port all of the airflow from the Xbox one X is generated by this 120 millimeter radial fan whose shroud encases the CPU heatsink that we covered earlier so it goes right over top like this now the power supply similar to the one s is internal but that's where the similarities end it is over twice the wattage capabilities of the one s at two hundred and forty-five watts it plugs in through two pins on the bottom which goes into the board right here and all you have to do to put it in is line it up push it down and you're done it receives air flow from that radial fan that we mentioned earlier channels out this way shoots air out of the back and you're good last of the internal components but not least is the 4k UHD blu-ray drive which has a sticker on it that says engineering sample in big text which I just absolutely love the cables for this are not here but it would essentially just plug in just barely under the power supply over here an installation of it is a brain dead easy just drop it on right there and you're done now that all the components are in our next step is to add this metal shroud and some screws in order to hold everything together but one quick note before we do that this honeycomb mesh right here is really impressive if you look at other parts of this system the meshing the metal between the holes is actually fairly standard it's thick in this area it is cannot be described as thick it is extremely thin it's actually more thin than the thickness of the metal at all which is kind of insane they had to come up with their own method of punching to do this and they didn't sure me it's still a form of punching that's that's pretty crazy to put the internal body together all you need to do is place it on top make sure that you got it around everything and push down fairly gently and then you're pretty good to go next up is screws you need to drop those in their respective places which are fairly straightforward and then tighten them down the outer body the parts that you actually really see when you handle your xbox 1x is in two parts the top and the nope bottom and the top we're gonna start with the bottom first you have to hook it over top of the optical drive as there's like a few different grabbing points that need to line up there and then you're gonna pull it around the top press down and there's a couple screws to insert it on the back but again I have the screws for that so just don't worry about that part Oh assembly complete now all we have to do is just make sure that it works in order to do that we'll just turn it on so I'm just gonna press the power button in the front and it works we're good now the i/o on the Xbox 1x is essentially the same as the i/o and the Xbox 1s which is cool because if you want to transfer cables over its just a one to one no complications there if you got power HDMI out which has a little bump on it so if you're feeling from the front of the Xbox you want to pull it all the way out you can tell where your cables supposed to go HDMI in for TV signals 2 USB 3 ports and IR out if you want to extend your controller speed if and Ethernet on the front of the unit we have an IR receiver and optical drive eject button for the optical drive that is right above it a controller pairing button another USB port and the standard Xbox power button also please note if you don't have an Ethernet cable or don't want to plug in for whatever reason you can just use the built-in 802 11 AC Wi-Fi anchors sound buds curved wireless headphones feature optics HD music and CBC noise cancellation for clear phone calls customizable ear tips for a good fit and ear wings to keep the headphones in place during workouts they boast 12 and a half hours of music time and a 10 minute charge will give you an hour of listening they've got a water-resistant shell and included in the box you get the sound buds curved multiple ear tips silicone and memory foam ear wings a cord management clip a shirt clip a micro USB cable a PU leather carrying pouch and an aluminum carabiner check them out at Amazon through the link below now you guys so much for watching if you liked the video get subscribed hit that little Bell things so that it sends you notifications every freaking time we upload a video which is every day that's a fair amount of notification so we upload cool stuff so you should actually check it out if you like the video like it you just like it dislike it check out the links down in the scription below we have sponsor links down there there should be a link of where you can pre-order this thing but we're filming this way in advanced when this video is going to come out so hopefully that's an option and yeah I'll see you next time
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