THE XBOX ONE S PC MOD IS FINISHED

[Music] foreign oh come on hasn't been that long since I started this project [Music] welcome back to craft Computing everyone as always I'm Jeff and yes the Xbox One S PC mod is finally in a place that I'm happy enough to talk about it it's definitely not done yet but I figured as this project has been going on for a while now uh I should probably explain where it's at what the difficulties have been and show off some of the progress and things that I'm happy with and things that I'm not let's get started this project started out innocently enough with me browsing eBay late one night and finding this Xbox One S shell with no internal components at all and I thought to myself I could probably fit an ITX computer into that and so the project was born getting started on this project I just needed the Xbox One S shell itself and an ITX motherboard and a graphics card off the shelf to see if I could even cram them inside of this 7.5 liter enclosure yeah there's not a lot of room inside of this and to my surprise an ITX motherboard actually fit fairly well and even situated itself almost perfectly under the existing fan vent the graphics card though was another story you see graphics cards have this uncanny ability to just be large and no matter what orientation I was going to try to cram this graphics card in here it just was not going to fit now they do make small form factor and even single slot graphics cards so there's things like this AMD Radeon wx2100 or the legendary 1070 katana but as you can tell even though these are very slender and would fit in the height of this case number one the WX 2100 isn't exactly setting the world on fire with its performance and number two the katana is still too big so I did what any moderate heart would do I sought out to make my own heatsink for a graphics card so I could cram it into this case and the winner was a Dell GTX 1650 OEM graphics card that I made it to a Nvidia Quadro k2000 heatsink and strangely enough not only did it work it ran fantastically well getting temperatures maxing out at only about 65 degrees Celsius so I finally had my combination of Parts an Intel I3 10 100 and a GTX 1650 and from there this kind of faded Into Obscurity not because I lost interest in the project but because I ran into some hurdles that I didn't know how to overcome you see even though I had basically all of the components to put the system together I was never going to be happy with the way it was going to turn out and that centered around a couple of different things number one being the power supply I picked up a 220 watt Pico power supply which requires a 12 volt 20 amp external power brick to be able to run that is taking all the Transformer circuitry out of the case itself and putting it into a brick that is nearly one-third the size of the Xbox One S kind of defeating the purpose of cramming a system into a shell this small couple that with the fact that I went through about three or so dozen revisions on the rear i o Shield so I could actually mount my graphics card and have the motherboard i o tray accessible and looking fairly stock and it just kind of became too difficult and more difficult than it was going to be worth but as it often tends to do Time Marches On and with time came some new parts that might breathe some new life into this project starting with the graphics card you know that thing that I spent all that time modifying yeah now there was an off-the-shelf component that I could just drop into here and make it work that is of course the RTX A2000 one of the world's most powerful compact graphics cards it is still a two slot card but in a half height solution it features 3 382 Cuda cores based on ampere technology which means it's about equivalent to something like a GTX 1070 or 1080 all while using only 70 watts of power of course there was also news on the power supply front that made me much more eager to jump back into this project and that is the release of the flex HD 250 watt power supply now this is not sponsored by Flex HD but buying this unit absolutely got this build back on track you see inside of here is the entire power supply all that I have to plug back in here is an AC power cord directly connected to my wall just like the Xbox One S and I get a full 250 watts of 80 plus bronze efficiency which is more than enough power to run the I3 10 100 and the RTX A2000 storage has also gotten insanely cheap as of late which is again a good thing since I have absolutely no room inside of here for any SATA ssds I was originally going to run just a 512 gigabyte nvme drive but since nvme drives have plummeted in price I can now fit a 2 terabyte nvme drive in here for less than 100 so I'm pretty much much out of excuses at this point it's time to just put the thing together and this is where I went from again super excited about this build to feeling a little bit lackluster kind of in myself and I wanted this to be a fully polished production ready system that is something that looked exactly like an Xbox One S off the shelf down to every last intricate detail that's the way I like to mod things and I just couldn't fully quite get that last bit of polish on here but as the old outage goes if you never finish the project then you're never going to be able to use the project and so I figured it was better at this point to put it all together turn it on make it run make a video about it and just enjoy it for what it is rather than stressing over this line isn't perfectly flush or this panel is a little bit gapped more than I would like or this screw hole is a little bit augered out or I cracked the case over here and I'm really bummed about that instead let's just take a look at what an awesome mod it turned out to be [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] so after all that work we have a 7.5 liter PC running an Intel core I3 10100f 4 core 8 threaded processor on an Asus Rog strix b460i motherboard with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 MTS memory two terabytes of Gen 4 nvme storage and an RTX A2000 with six gigabytes of video memory not too shabby especially considering what was inside the Xbox One S to begin with which I guess in this case was nothing one of the things that I'm immensely proud of is the power button still works as the power button it looks exactly the same it has the same mechanical click and it works as a power button for the PC also the front LEDs that I reused the opening for the DVD reader in really happy with how that turned out although I had originally planned on custom making either an aluminum or a 3D printed Channel it turns out hot glue is a lot easier to put that in place and make it look good from the outside so that's what I did while I made the base of the console essentially a production ready part I Stripped Away all of the internal gusseting added a custom 3D printed motherboard tray complete with brass standoffs which means I can swap out any ITX board that I want in the future keeping the system upgradable just like it was a regular PC case the rest of the system though is kind of bodged together originally I wanted the back plate to be one cohesive piece complete with industry standard mounting points that is a PCI Express slot and a motherboard i o tray so you could swap in and out Parts at your leisure and as it turns out there's now an RTX A4000 which is the most performant PCI Express small form factor graphics card on the market hey PNY give me a call I'd love to put one in here but I could never get it to print out flat and I can never get the geometry quite right and I had standoffs and cutaways in all kinds of various positions so laying it flat on a print bed just never quite worked out right what I wound up with was a two-piece design so the motherboard has its own back plate and then the graphics card has its own and I custom designed the i o cutaways for the graphics card complete with venting so we can screw the graphics card into that custom backplate and it also holds the power jack on the rear it's not necessarily upgradable without completely redesigning the part but it does hold the A2000 in exactly the right spot back to the downsides of this system it also didn't hold the rtxa2000 level inside of the case so it was actually pulling and bowing the rear i o shield and not supporting the graphics card completely what I ended up doing was printing essentially a little bridge to sit on top of the bottom of the chassis and hold the rtxa2000 in exactly the right position now that means if I turn the case upside down the rtxa2000 wants to flop to the roof of the case and vice versa if I flip it back over it'll fall back down onto that Riser but at least it holds it in the right position when we're in this orientation so I think we're good to go having that little riser in there also gave me just the right amount of cable management space to hold the USB 3.0 front header oh by the way the USB port on the front of here still works but it allowed me to route that cable back under the graphics card and then loop back forward plug into an extender so I could actually get some Bend in the cable and then plug into the USB 3.0 header on the board I don't know if anyone else knows this but the US 3.0 header is basically the worst internal cable that's ever been designed it is not flexible you cannot plug it in from any angle other than 100 perpendicular and in a small form factor case like this it ended up coming up like this high if I just plugged the header straight into the board so I had to get a flexible connector to make it work but hey the USB port does work and finally we had to get the top panel on here and make it secure so it looked like a finished product and that was probably the biggest challenge mainly because of that power supply while I did get a 250 watt power supply with internal Transformer inside of this chassis it fits within about a millimeter of its light life and in fact the case is bulging on both sides to make it work to get it to fit depth wise I had to shove the power supply all the way against the front of that bottom half of the chassis and then I had to custom make some upper brackets so I could screw it in and hold it tight so it wouldn't rattle around inside the case however that also meant that none of the front brackets would meet into the bottom chassis anymore so all of these are just kind of floating and in fact I ended up removing about half of them so the case doesn't latch here in the center anymore that means all of the physical connections are done on the side but the Xbox One S is a click apart unit and I didn't want that to be that way anymore I wanted to be able to unscrew it and remove the top as you would a standard PC so I ended up getting some 3D printed spacers and set some threaded inserts inside of there and then drilled some holes and some flush mount screws and that works I will say fairly well it's not perfect but it does close so with that we have a fully working Xbox One S PC that turns on has lights and has pretty much enough horsepower to game at 1080p at high settings how does it run performance wise it's excellent temperature wise now the CPU and GPU don't actually get that hot there is plenty of ventilation in here for the CPU to draw in cool air from the top and vent it out wherever makes sense through the rest of the ventilation of the case same thing with the GPU it has all of this side venting to pull fresh air in from the side and then it's a blower fan design so it blows all the hot air out the back both CPU and GPU get direct sources of cold air and therefore run usually between about 50 and 60 degrees Celsius at Max draw it's that 250 watt fanless power supply that gets a little toasty you see there's also not enough room for fans despite my best efforts you might have noticed when I put the top panel on there are actually three different fan mounts that I tried adding to the sides to force air to flow through the chassis and over the top of that power supply I was never able to get the fans completely working and fitting inside of this case so the power supply has no fan and no open ventilation to the outside world so it just kind of swelters in its own 250 watt 80 plus efficiency heat now while the system does run and can run for hours on end it does make me a little bit nervous for the longevity of that power supply because heat is the ultimate killer of electronics and having no fan and no open world ventilation this gets quite toasty especially when you consider it's held in place with 3D printed parts now while both the motherboard tray and the uprights that are holding the power supply in place are printed with carbon fiber petg which is fairly heat resilient and very stiff it's still 3D printed parts and enough temperature and enough time can make goo out of us all so what can the system do well it can play switch emulated games up to about 60 frames per second with fairly acceptable lows including Super Mario Odyssey and Zelda tears of the Kingdom not that I needed to play those on my TV as I have a switch but now the Xbox can do it as well it handles pretty much every other emulated console with ease that 10100f is fantastic when it comes to single threaded performance and the A2000 holds its own when it comes to 1080p rendering so is this mod finished well it does turn on it looks good from some angles and it's a PC that I'd be happy to take to a LAN party or plug-in to my tv as a dedicated gaming console but if I never assembled it it never would have ran and so take this video as kind of a public service announcement if you want to get into PC modding when you start a project as ambitious as this it is very easy to get discouraged get sidetracked uh lose focus of the plot entirely or even buy all new parts and think you'll just upgrade them as you go in reality I was designing the system around an ITX board and a GTX 1650 that I made a custom heatsink for I kind of let new parts and new goals for the project cloud my path for getting this finished in the first place which meant instead of being an Xbox One SPC mod it was an Xbox One S shell with parts that I couldn't use in any other project because they were dedicated to this one if you want to get into PC modding or crafting of any kind I suggest finishing your projects even if it's not going to be the vision that you had originally even if you think there's a better way you could do it later you can always do a revision B you can always do a revision C you can always buy another Xbox shell reprint out parts and put something together that is better and more polished than you had the first time around but an unfinished project is always an unfinished project and as okay as I am with how this one turned out I'm thrilled that it's now up and running so where is the Xbox One S PC mod it's right here it looks pretty good it's running now and it performs pretty well and I am very happy that I can finally call this project done as I can always revisit it and make it better as always if you're interested in any of the parts from this build as outdated as they may be I will have affiliate links down in the video description go give those a look on your way down there make sure to drop this video a like And subscribe to craft Computing if you haven't done so already and leave me a comment down below if you have any unfinished projects that you need to get out of your closet or if I've ever mentioned something that you want to see a follow-up on because likely that's a project that's sitting out in my garage that I need someone to light a fire under my ass for if you like this project and want to see more like it there's an easy way to help support that head on over to craftcompeting.store and grab yourself one of our nucleated pint glasses now available in this Hops and Brews Motif which I'm not gonna lie I like a lot thank you all so much for watching and as 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Published: Tue Aug 01 2023