says there are some potential upgrades down the line, but as with most gaming PC builds, cost is the limiting factor. While this made the build a bit more complicated, it does make the final product a lot cleaner and makes it feel just that much more like a proper game console.īenchmarks show the machine has decent performance, all things considered. Fairly tight wire management was required to prevent any airflow obstructions, especially since decided to put the system’s 80 watt laptop-style power supply inside the case. The final hardware is more than capable of running older titles, and can even be used with Steam Link to stream newer content from his primary gaming computer.Įven with a diminutive Gigabyte GA-H81N Mini ITX motherboard, things are pretty tight inside the Xbox. tells us he was looking for a way to play some older games from the early 2000s, and thought it was a good opportunity to put together a quiet set-top computer. The fact that Microsoft would want their game console to resemble a PC isn’t particularly surprising in hindsight, but we doubt anyone at Redmond ever imagined folks like would be cramming in full-fledged computers nearly 20 years later. When Microsoft released the original Xbox, it deviated from the design of traditional game consoles in that it used several off-the-shelf computer components.

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