The Ben Heck Show

Xbox One X Teardown (7x41)

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Ben tears down an Xbox One X. Marketed as the smallest and most powerful Xbox One, how does it compare in size to an Xbox One S? Ben compares and reveals its CPU/GPU aka APU, heatsink, hard drive, RAM, connectors, and power supply. Max obtained an Xbox One X on launch date and now Ben is going to take it apart. The Xbox One X boasts a much larger GPU, which allows you to do 4K gaming. Microsoft has marketed it as the smallest and most powerful Xbox ever built. It can do 5 teraflops whereas the old one could only do 4 teraflops. Flops are floating-point operations per second. These days the GPUs are much more powerful than the CPU. Both the Xbox and PS4 have combined CPU/GPUs from AMD, called APUs (accelerated processing unit). Ben is not a fan of the latest Xbox controller because it’s a lot more difficult to mod. It has Bluetooth so it does allow you to use it as a wireless controller. The main system weighs approximately 10 pounds so it’s pretty heavy compared to previous iterations. To test Microsoft’s claim that the Xbox one is the smallest and more powerful iteration of Xbox One, Ben puts it up against the shell casing of the Xbox Slim. The Xbox One X is about 5 millimeters wider than the Xbox One Slim. Using a caliper to measure he discovers that the Xbox Box One X is 3.8 inches deeper and .14 inches wider than the Xbox One Slim. The Xbox One X is slightly shorter, 2.5 inches against 2.36 inches so that is the basis for Microsoft calling it the smallest Xbox One. While that is debatable, what is not is the fact that it is definitely the heaviest Xbox One. The Xbox One was originally suppose to be a cable box so it had HDMI In and Out which got quietly dropped. The Xbox One X brought the HDMI In and Out back. Ben removes the Hex screws from the Xbox One case. It comes apart easily after removing two screws. The CPU appears to be mounted upside down. Outside of that, it’s fairly standard Xbox construction. The wireless module is outsi