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Xbox Series S full teardown by MVG
- Thread starter Theorry
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It's a chip designed for use in Xbox One and they are reusing it to save money. It is a southbridge chip. Usually for IO I think. Nothing to worry about.
No, but the fact that you can replace your mechanical drive in current gen consoles with OS installs directly from MS would suggest this is possible.
Yep, just beautiful.
They cut too much meat from Series S specs though... unfortunately
Damn that thing is compact and I'm surprised that even I could do that if I wanted to try expanding the Nvme storage. Also the AC7 music is perfect for this.
It's an interesting approach to a generation. Let's see if it works out for them. I can see an audience beyond us core who'd just pick one up for Gamepass.
Look at the giant heat sink and fan! I love it. Microsoft don't saves on cooling after 360's RROD.
Interesting that the fan 'sucks', rather than blows through the heatsink. Makes sense for the way the console is designed, though, obviously.
Makes sense. Thanks!
Didn't think it was anything to worry about, just curious! Excess makes sense.
The Series X and S both seem so well-designed. I don't have a whole lot of experience taking my consoles apart, but I had to do it with my PS4 Pro last year to replace the disc laser and it was a nightmare in comparison to these.
Now I think it, can you still boot W10 in a Series X|S? I would get a second Series S if I could convert this in a PC machine with Steam and everything lmao
There wasn't any Microsoft console where you could boot windows onto it.
Realistically it'd be a lot of work.
I hope failoverflow will take a deep look at the consoles but i don't have high hopes for Xbox.
It could be the reason for USB 3.1 which of course is totally fine for a console.
Ah I see, I google it and you are right. It's a shame because the machine is pretty powerful for its price and turn it in a proper PC would be pretty cool.
funny how the S and X are different ends of the spectrum. The X looks complex and obviously a lot of thought went into it and the S is quite basic, in a good way. Both look really well designed for what they do.
I recently discovered MVG and I think his content is great as an old man who mostly sticks with Jeremy Parish, Giant Bomb and Digital foundry. This video is great. I think the strategy of the Series S is very interesting to me. That fan is so huge. I love it.
I mean I'm on here and that's how I'm gonna treat it, as a companion to the PS5 or Switch Pro.
Thanks for sharing the video. MVG is definitely going to bolster his followers with content like this. I'm surprised. As for the Series S, I would call its' internals simple and yet elegant. I love it.
clean layout in a very impressive package
Series S with a disc drive would be such a cool device
Series S with a disc drive would be such a cool device
AFAIK you can't actually void warranties for breaking those seals, at least in US.