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about every year and a half PC gamers are used to getting a whole new

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generation of graphics cards with noticeably better performance that they

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can easily slot into their existing system for a quick upgrade console fans

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though are usually forced to wait long periods for a new generation of tech for

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example it was eight freaking years between the release date of the Xbox 360

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and the Xbox one so to alleviate this problem somewhat console makers have

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been releasing incremental updates to existing platforms just like the new

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Xbox One S from Microsoft with improved performance and functionality Beyond

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just being smaller can it trade blows with a modern gaming PC let's find

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in the link in the description down below with past console Generations

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refreshes of the same platform usually took the form of adding enhanced

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connectivity such as Wi-Fi and some additional storage space but the Xbox

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One S has taken a bit of a different approach to console redesign although

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there is now a 2 tbte option doubling the capacity of the previous largest

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Xbox one model the other improvements are quite a bit more interesting not

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only is the Xbox One S 40% smaller than the original Behemoth Microsoft also o

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ditched the massive external power brick in favor for an internal power supply

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you now only need to use one rather small power cord to plug it into the

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wall despite this the 1s remains surprisingly light and easy enough to

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move around when you need to so points to Microsoft for that the Standard

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Edition comes in a white color scheme with black trim which in my opinion is

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pretty slick especially compared to the original Xbox one which some folks

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myself included said looked a little drab in the box you'll find an updated

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controller which is very similar to the original but with Bluetooth for

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connecting to PCS some improved range and a textured grip so it won't go

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squirting out of your hand in a tense moment also this new IR Blaster which

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can accept inputs for multiple devices so you can control things like your TV

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and one of the big selling points here is 4K support which is completely absent

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from the original Xbox one but there's a caveat perhaps unsurprisingly this

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doesn't mean you can Render games at 4K if you want this you'll have to wait for

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yet another xbox update code named project Scorpio due in late 2017 what

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the Xbox One S does instead is upscale 1080p games to 4K so the Xbox will play

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nicely with your 4K TV in your living room if you have one but do note that

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your TV or monitor will need to be HDMI

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2.0 compliant for this upscaling to work at all but if you can live without true

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4K gaming and are mainly interested in using 4K to watch movies and TV shows

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the good news is that the Xbox One S can not only handle 4K streaming from

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services like Netflix but also supports 4K Blu-ray discs natively a very nice

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feature for home theater enthusiasts who want the superior sound quality of a

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physical disc and folks who don't have good enough internet connection to

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stream 4K by comparison the Xbox One s's

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closest competitor the soon to be released PlayStation 4 Pro only supports

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HD Blu-ray the 1s also features HDR or

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high dynamic range support which will give you nicer colors and more realistic

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contrast if you have a TV that supports it but what's going on inside the

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internals are mostly the same as you can see from these tear down photos from our

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friends over at iFixit but one very interesting difference is theoc has

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undergone a die shrink using a 16 nanometer process as opposed to the 28

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present in the original Xbox One this allows it to use less power probably the

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reason Microsoft was able to fit the PSU inside the chassis and to be clocked

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significantly faster indeed the Xbox One S supports 914 MHz on the GPU 61 more

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than the original model and that leads into The $64,000 Question how well does

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it game a common Point made by PC Gamers

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who isue consoles is that even a mid-range GPU will easily overperform

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the latest consoles so we put the Xbox One S up against the moderately priced

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AMD radon rx470 as well as the more

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premium NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 to see

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how close the console can get to PC quality visuals in three different

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titles the system we used with our rx470 came in just at about $500 on PC part

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picker while our more performance-oriented GTX 1070 system

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came in at just a little bit under $1,250 Microsoft has been pushing pretty

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hard how the Xbox One S apparently functions very well during intense

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sequences in gear of War 4 so let's start with that make sure you have the

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Cog wheel on YouTube set to 1080p60 so

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that you can see the differences here now to Microsoft's credit the game

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remained perfectly playable even during combat situations and the game looked

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quite nice overall but it's rather easy to tell here that both our mid-range and

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higher-end PCs ran the game a lot more smoothly even on ultra settings our PC's

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gpus also enabled slightly nicer looking textures across the board moving on to

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Forza Horizon 3 the results were rather similar the rx470 and the GTX 1070 gave

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us smoother gameplay as well as better detail on things like bodies of water

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and environmental elements such as the sides of these Canyons draw distances

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also appear to be quite a bit better on PC although it must be noted that the

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problem was not removed entirely just kind of moved back to a hopefully less

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focused on area there was also less aliasing noticeable on things like guard

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rails and foliage however we did run into some stutter ing issues on PC that

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we didn't have to deal with on the Xbox which Microsoft should be addressing

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with a patch but nevertheless image quality was a bit better on PC with

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smoother gameplay even though we were running things on ultra settings it's

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just unfortunate that we had yet another case of a less polished PC version of a

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game finally rise of the Tomb Raider this game also looked actually quite

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good on the Xbox One S though once again it was a lot less smooth than it was on

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either of our PC gpus which were running the game at the very high preset

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although the Xbox One S came in a lot closer to matching our PC in the image

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quality Department than either of the two previous games there were still some

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noticeable differences on things like these vertical sheets of ice Laura Croft

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has to climb now moving on unfortunately

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the Xbox's 4K output did not want to play nicely with our capture equipment

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so we don't have footage for you but what I can tell you is that the

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upscaling was quite good in all of our test titles although it's still lagged

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behind PC in terms of smoothness of play and image quality and in no way does

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this upscaling substitute for actual native 4K rendering our game still looks

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pretty darn good without any significant slowdowns from the 1080p mode or

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excessive blurriness or any of that stuff so if you happen to have a 4K TV I

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definitely recommend enabling this feature and at least trying it out now

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this performance section may have come across rather negative to the 1s but put

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into perspective itive of price it actually shouldn't there are obvious and

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major trade-offs like the upgradability of a PC the versatility of a keyboard

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and mouse for input the expandability the option to do other things etc etc

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I'm sure you're all well versed in this but despite all of that and despite my

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preference definitely being on the PC side of things getting for

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300 4K Blu-ray support which is nearly impossible to find on PCS right now and

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some actually pretty DEC performance was impressive personally of course I would

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choose a PC any day for a huge amount of reasons like the agility of an SSD for

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the wide variety of tasks that I perform on a computer at a time to actually

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being able to get work done in an optimal setting but what do you choose

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