Xbox One X Scorpio Teardown and Reassembly
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,401 words · ~7 min read
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I'm here at Microsoft's Redmond campus and I have somehow convinced them to let
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me take apart their new Xbox one X and now you're gonna come along with me as I
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reassemble the entire thing starting at the very base with the Scorpio engine
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I buy power and MSI's new lineup of gaming
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link below we're gonna start with the heart of the system the Scorpio engine
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as I mentioned earlier it's what insiders call an SOC or system on a chip
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that means it has your CPU and GPU on board the CPU is eight cores running at
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2.3 gigahertz and the GPU is running at
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one point seven two gigahertz with four TCU's at six teraflops per second and
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has other various Polaris features as well as this was a combined project with
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AMD you can't just go buy this chip it was made for the Xbox one X circling
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around the Scorpio engine you have 12 gigs of gddr5 memory running at 326
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gigabytes per second and this entire area is cooled by one large vapor
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chamber cooler that has an area in the bottom this is why it's called a vapor
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chamber that has liquid in it and it actually evaporates from the bottom of
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this area just to the top and naturally goes to the colder areas of this copper
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plate before cooling through the fins by
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the way if you want to hear more about vapor chamber cooling check out our tech
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cookie video on it right up here flipping over to the back side of the
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board we have the Southbridge and eight gigs of onboard flash which is used both
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for housing part of the operating system and as a cache for the hard drive said
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hard drive just goes into this little corner in the front and actually has
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some cool tech going around it is a Seagate one terabyte hard drive but it
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is on suspended elastic housing so that vibrations from the hard drive shouldn't
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interfere with the rest of the case or make any noise or bother anything and
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that gets carried forward to this plastic block which manages the cables
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coming out from the hard drive to ensure that they don't touch anything else like
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the optical drive that's mounted above it to connect it with the actual system
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it's just a SATA port directly across from the plastic block and a power
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connector directly across from the SATA port all of the airflow from the Xbox
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one X is generated by this 120 millimeter radial fan whose shroud
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encases the CPU heatsink that we covered
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earlier so it goes right over top like this now the power supply similar to the
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one s is internal but that's where the similarities end it is over twice the
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wattage capabilities of the one s at two hundred and forty-five watts it plugs in
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through two pins on the bottom which goes into the board right here and all
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you have to do to put it in is line it up push it down and you're done it
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receives air flow from that radial fan that we mentioned earlier channels out
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this way shoots air out of the back and you're good last of the internal
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components but not least is the 4k UHD
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blu-ray drive which has a sticker on it that says engineering sample in big text
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which I just absolutely love the cables for this are not here but it would
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essentially just plug in just barely under the power supply over here an
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installation of it is a brain dead easy just drop it on right there and you're
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done now that all the components are in our next step is to add this metal
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shroud and some screws in order to hold everything together but one quick note
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before we do that this honeycomb mesh right here is really impressive if you
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look at other parts of this system the meshing the metal between the holes is
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actually fairly standard it's thick in this area it is cannot be described as
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thick it is extremely thin it's actually more thin than the thickness of the
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metal at all which is kind of insane they had to come up with their own
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method of punching to do this and they didn't sure me it's still a form of
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punching that's that's pretty crazy to put the internal body together all you
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need to do is place it on top make sure that you got it around everything and
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push down fairly gently and then you're pretty good to go next up is screws you
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need to drop those in their respective places which are fairly straightforward
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and then tighten them down the outer body the parts that you actually really
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see when you handle your xbox 1x is in two parts the top and the
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nope bottom and the top we're gonna
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start with the bottom first you have to hook it over top of the optical drive as
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there's like a few different grabbing points that need to line up there and
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then you're gonna pull it around the top press down and there's a couple screws
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to insert it on the back but again I have the screws for that so just don't
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worry about that part
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Oh
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assembly complete now all we have to do is just make sure that it works in order
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to do that we'll just turn it on so I'm just gonna press the power button in the
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front and it works we're good now the i/o on
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the Xbox 1x is essentially the same as the i/o and the Xbox 1s which is cool
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because if you want to transfer cables over its just a one to one no
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complications there if you got power HDMI out which has a little bump on it
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so if you're feeling from the front of the Xbox you want to pull it all the way
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out you can tell where your cables supposed to go HDMI in for TV signals 2
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USB 3 ports and IR out if you want to
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extend your controller speed if and Ethernet on the front of the unit we
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have an IR receiver and optical drive eject button for the optical drive that
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is right above it a controller pairing button another USB port and the standard
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Xbox power button also please note if you don't have an Ethernet cable or
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don't want to plug in for whatever reason you can just use the built-in 802
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11 AC Wi-Fi anchors sound buds curved wireless
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headphones feature optics HD music and CBC noise cancellation for clear phone
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calls customizable ear tips for a good fit and ear wings to keep the headphones
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in place during workouts they boast 12 and a half hours of music time and a 10
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minute charge will give you an hour of listening they've got a water-resistant
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shell and included in the box you get the sound buds curved multiple ear tips
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silicone and memory foam ear wings a cord management clip a shirt clip a
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micro USB cable a PU leather carrying pouch and an aluminum carabiner check
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them out at Amazon through the link below now you guys so much for watching
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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
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see you next time