THE XBOX ONE S PC MOD IS FINISHED
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- IT'S FINALLY DONE! While the XBOX One S PC might not be the PC Case Mod of my dreams from over two years ago, I can also start playing games on it and start planning the next project. Check out the finished results, and why sometimes the best thing you can do with a project that's gone sideways is finish it.
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Maybe I don’t watch enough PC modding stuff, but I don’t know why you’re sleeping on that thing. It’s beautiful! Great job man
Hey nice to see you here!
Hardware daddy!
Jeff finished a project! Open a bottle of Champagne!
*scotch
@@CraftComputingif you shake it hard enough, basically the same.
@@pkt1213😂
Knowing Jeff, you should grow the grapes to brew it lol
@@CraftComputingmineral watah*
A project is never truly done, but...
That's some good work, Jeff.
I love it when a plan (eventually) comes together. Nice work JeOFpH.
The saying is "Perfection is the enemy of complete"
Finished stuff is always cool, just roll with it!
To avoid seeing the 250 W PSU melt itself as the "day" side of Mercury with the Sun, have you thought of reversing the CPU fan so it draws air from the sides (as does the A2000) and exhausting it towards the top (with natural convection assistance)? It might help creating some air current inside the case for the poor PSU.
Edit: Nice overall build. Cheers!
I'd have a look at taking the board out of the PSU and mounting it directly, that way you might be able to make the room to add a fan to actively cool it. Mind you that would have worked with the 12V power brick which would run cooler anyway outside of it's insulating plastic shell.
@@darthwiizius the HDPLEX probably won't run without its casing without significant airflow, besides at least some of the components require heatsinks to properly dissipate heat, you can't just remove the case without adding some heatsinks of your own. But yeah, with max load the HDPLEX can reach 85°C in my experience.
@@morj_morj
It's very doable though, as I say if not the PLEX PSU that little 12V would work unsheathed perfectly fine, you wouldn't even need to earth it being inside a plastic box, though maybe a thin aluminium divider might be a good idea to cut down EM crosstalk, that's the main issue with de-casing really.
Literally any airflow overcomes "natural convection" in an enclosed system like a pc case.
Back in college I had a very similar project with an OG XBOX shell and an old itx board. I think it was something on the AM2 socket at the time.
Back then I didn't have the skills or the follow through (or the 3d printer) to finish it. Its nice to see something similar to that actually get finished all these years later
Nice setup. Do you are can use xbox motherboard to boot windows or linux bootable disks ?
I think I would have gone with the external brick, you're a mad scientist for sticking with the all internal option!
I did all internal with the same chassis 2 years ago and never had thermal issues. There are other options for internal power.
But isn't the actual power brick of the 1s that big anyway
@@sojiro288 The XBox One had a monster brick, but the One S has an internal supply.
Your PSA is relevant really to any project, PC modding or not.
Congratulations on getting the xbox mod running! I'm a little bit in awe that you could even do it haha. I can barely operate a screwdriver!! 😂
Love seeing the work you put into this! I look forward to seeing the completed one at LAN!
I ran into a ton of the same issues back a few years ago when it built one in an original xbox. My saving grace was the zotac mini 1060 and a silverstone 1U PSU. That PSU was clutch. It has a rear fan and top exhaust. I just turned it sideways so that the top pointed out of the side of the xbox case. A few strategically placed holes later it essentially became its own cooling solution, pulling cold air in the back and exhausting out the side. Then I used a vertical mount riser to flip the 1060 and slightly overlap the mother board. It ran fairly warm but thanks to Noctua it stayed within operating perimeters. Tip for anyone thinking of doing an OG xbox conversion, the original front button panel can be easily adapted to be used as the PC power button with just a little soldering. You can even chose if you want it to be green or red. I chose red for the giggles. Cheers on this project though. Its really cool.
Love this! So relatable with the struggles. 😅
I'd say going with an external brick power brick would be the best scenario for temps. Going external might let you bump the hardware specs up, or even just allow for more overclocking headroom by removing a big heat source, and adding more power. Going internal is definitely more true to the original design though.
Honestly, your project still has tons more polish to it than a lot of other similar ideas, and I like them all the same. I might have gone for a 6-core Ryzen chip instead, myself, but the 10100 is not a bad choice either and has plenty of single-thread oomph. I don't know that I'd do much multitasking on this machine, but then again, it appears to be intended for stealth usage with a TV kind of like an HTPC that can run some games, so that's not really the vision of the project anyway.
you are so hard on yourself man, if this was a retail product, id purchase one. well done
really enjoyed this, the funny product reviews are interesting once in a while, but def enjoy seeing you build/make things more. Very cool build!
After battling with alcoholism for a long time, I gotta say, its nice to watch your channel, sipping some tea while you sip some brew. For all my friends out there who find problems with alcohol, sober friends are here with you to enjoy this content too!
That definitely is a thing of beauty. Excellent job.
Looks amazing way better than I thought it turn out wow it been a long time but it was worth the wait
That certainly looks good. My biggest case mod was turning an old server lid into a Baby AT "case" (just a flat mounting board) for some junked parts I saved. The CPU heatsink is a cooler from an HP Core 2 Duo where I gouged out some fins to fit the Socket 7 retention clip. "It works" and "it doesn't fall apart" is about the best I can say about the system.
Might I say, genuinely excellent in spite of the bits you are not so happy with?
A couple of thoughts you may have already considered:
-Take the PSU out of it's case for more room and ventilation. If You're understandably concerned about death cover with your own shielding.
-It looks like your GPU 'standoff' has enough room for a clip to run up to the top side for more stability. Maybe it will deshroud too..?
Derek from Vice Grip Garage always says:
Your project won’t work unless you do. Don’t worry about getting it perfect get it running and have fun.
A2000 Heatsink from n3rdware and 3D printed cover for the HDPlex with 40mm fan does wonders for cooling and reduces noise… especially the whine from the A2000. I also found it increased the performance enough to make me question my main battlestation.
With how 3d printing is getting better and people getting better using one, the bottom and inside of the case can totally be 3d printed to standardize it and just get a top cover of the Xbox. Wish I was knowledgeable to be able to do all that because that is a fun little project.
Usb 3.0 90 degree adapters are a god send. If you have a pesky usb 3.0 cable or one that looks ugly i recommend them. Very inexpensive and can make a system look much cleaner.
I share the same school of thought! I like having the stuff already deployed doing its thing, even if it's not ideal, or kinda janky, we are from the IT world, nothing ever sits on its ideal state, it's always upgrading/improving/refactoring as we go, is it perfect? absolutely not, yet it's on production.
Great Project! Never seen something this good.
Thanks for this video! I like the message of "just start," something is always better than nothing.
That reminds me there was a computing project that I was schemeing out in the late 90's. Price of the display was the limiting factor but now it's kinda reasonable.
That's really nicely done! Impressive!
Sweet, I have been waiting to see this one through. I joined the channel a few months before the first xbox vid, so its cool seeing it continued.
Wow that's pretty awesome! Great video! I love how the LED light looks on the disc entrance.
It’s always satisfying when you finally finish building your pc or pc modded system and get that infamous bios flas screen 🥳🥳🥰😇👍
I liked immediately after, "What? It hasn't been that long..." 🤣🤣
It is called scope creep 😊. It is a project killer.
Amazing job. I think it's turned out way better than expected.
Very impressive. I have a brand new A520M-ITX/ac lying around that I bought on a whim because it was $60/250PLN, might try to do a similar build one day when I get my hands on a cheap used 5600G or something :D
What an awesome build! A great stealth unit that could definitely trick some people with that 😎
how about you send him a pair of your awesome AR glasses and test the Xbox machine for VR😅
I had a similar project for a tiny PC, but I cheated a bit with the GPU and made it external with a riser cable just to be able to put something like a 3070 for games. Then I tucked it away behind my entertainment center so you don't even see it 😆
Very cool mod :D The GPU woes you were having... I was wondering if a 3070 would be an option. Smaller PCB and power requirements. On a custom made cooler. I imagen it be a real Frankenstein
I wanted to put a single-board computer inside a vintage toastess toaster shell and effectively having a toaster PC but the single-board computer I bought back then had very little support for desktop environment operating systems. I still got the Toastess shell so in the future I could try it with a better single-board computer. Nice video btw
Engineering is about puzzles. Solving for a problem using a given set of parameters. Mission accomplished.
Love this, great job! Only knock I have is, you seem very particular, so I am surprised, it appears you didn't clean the dirty vent there on the case cover. Looks brownish.
Nice mod job. However, please take five minutes and a few cotton swabs with some isopropyl alcohol and clean out the dirty brown/yellow dust from the ventilation holes on the top of the case... please!
BTW, what about drilling out some of those holes on the front and top of the case to get a tiny bit of ventilation for the PSU?
Congratulations on your new PC Xbox, niiiiiice. I've never seen your channel and I've love what you have done with my favorite console from all time, I've been an Xbox fan since Xbox 360, I've been a PC gamer also for a very long time, I'm planning on returning to PC gaming soon, I've bought already a few epic store and steam games to start. My question is, how much did you spend in the whole parts? I know your personal work maybe surpasses what you've spend but I'm just curious. Keep up the good work
Very nice end result in my opinion!
I also have a side project that it left..to the side. It's an older nzxt Apollo case that I want to couple with a Gigabyte x58 board that I have but it has a weird issue and despite the fact that it posts absolutely fine,when loading windows (10) it crashes with the error code "internal power error".
I will revisit it at some point for sure
It’s awesome seeing someone do stuff like this thank you for making awesome content god bless you ❤️🙏
I freaking love this thing...there is just one thing i would have done different. Take the front power board of the Xbox One S and chop it where the switch and LED are. Solder wires for the button and led. I repair these consoles and have a few of the boards laying around.
The hdplex is a beast. I wouldn’t worry about it
Just a thought; but would it be possible to repurpose the disk slot into a ventilation slot for the power supply instead of using it to house a RGB light bar? I was thinking maybe a small 3d printed shroud and thin blower fan would get the job done for the heat out.
This is great. I like to build, usually with PC parts, custom stuff too : Arcade Machines, Virtual Pinball machines, Console sized PC builds and even a high end Android Arcade/Console system inside a Mayflash F500 Elite Fighter joystick with my own custom artwork under it`s plexiglass ( and yes I also needed a dremel to cut away plastic parts inside of that ). With your build here I don`t think that having the power brick external is not a problem really but I`m amazed that u got one inside all be it a bit toasty
Years ago I built a mini-ITX celeron board into a dead SNES. I was able to reuse the power and reset switches, LED, and controller ports by taking apart a generic SNES-to-USB adapter and wiring it into the original ports. But I spent months upon months dreading that I could never get the back IO panel the way I wanted. Like you said, better to finish your project before worrying about what you could have done better. That darn SNES spent so much time on my bench not being played.
To misquote (I don't know who this is even attributed to), don't let the perfect stand in the way of good. I think your project is great, personally. Shame about the PSU having no way to breathe, but I'm sure it'll live.
Nice music selection on this one. Might be cool as an egpu enclosure as well.
Pretty cool. I am wondering how this would work with a 7940HS, now they are out.
Frore's air moving things could be an option for cooling the PSU. If you can fit it in a Macbook Air, this should be easy enough to make happen if you can get the hardware.
As for the psu I would try snaking a heatpipe from the side or maybe use metal tape on the internal top of the case so it can go and steal some of the CPU airflow
I've never got people wanting to make gaming or workstations in tiny cases stock or custom. Make as many tiny PCs as you want but have less lofty goals. It could've been a really cool HTPC/Moonlight client using integrated graphics for decode and the space the graphics card took up could've housed a fan so the psu wasn't melting.
Good ol’ Tan Computing, I love that sun-kissed guy!
Man this is a great build. I was looking at a 3070 Velka 5 (5 litre case!) watercooled build just the other day and this really put in perspective just how mindblowing that build was.
Is it not possible to build a 40mm fan for the power supply on one of the 2 sides?
Overall the PC mod looks great and how many people see such a powerful Xbox. ^^
Alternatively, I am curious if the XBOX S can be modded to keep the 4K drive, and replace the other parts with a MiniPC guts and a 3.5" HDD to make it a Media center / ripping machine. Many MiniPCs out there have decent enough graphics to play eSports titles smoothly.
Im feeling the same, I have a similar proyect stoped for like 3 years.
I got similar project just replaced the i3-10100F an its mobo by an i9-9900T and a B-360i I would have take an A2000 GPU if it was cheaper but had an ol Titan Pascal sitting around so I use it instead my case is not an XBOX shell but a Node 201 from Fractal Design so I can put full length GPU in.
Love this kind of vid keep on the good work !
I did something similar with an original xbox one shell and I am definitely jealous over the fit and finish of the power solution you have as I opted for a 450w Pico PSU that has not one, but 2 laptop bricks connected to it for a grand total of 360w. Even though mine may have more power head room yours is a much better solution and less of a headache when it gets moved and plugged in elsewhere.
Well Jeff, I still need to wrap up a project mine. a project that takes a 1990's Apple //e platinum and brings it into the 21st century.
Hi Jeff! Very fun build 😀. If you do a v3, what do you think of a 6800u or 7840u? The CPU would be a big upgrade, although the iGPU would be a bit of a downgrade from the A2000. But power and cooling would be easier to manage.
I don't think it's nearly as fun without a dedicated GPU. ITX or SBC boards are easy enough to get running in tight spaces. Part of the challenge was building something with actual graphical horsepower.
@@CraftComputing Hi Jeff 😀. That makes sense. Either way, congrats on putting this project out there.
Main project I need to get finished is whole home Ethernet wiring. Did the whole upstairs, ran all cables back to a patch panel in the attic, had every intention of immediately starting the downstairs cable runs, and upon realising how awkward it was going to be to do it, I lost all motivation.
It’s been two years since I did the upstairs, and yet my fibre line still comes in downstairs and is linked up to the rest of the house via a power line adapter…
Being a network engineer makes this all the more shameful 😵
the beer on the desk goes hard
I know you just finished this project, but here’s the second challenge that I think would be very interesting, and a bit easier. Can you mod a PC into a PS3 case. I believe it is the PS3 slim of which might be the best for this project
I think you got the details on the psu wrong. It's from HDPLEX and is way more efficient than 80+ Bronze. It, afaik also doesn't have a 80+ certification at all anyway. It uses GAN FETs and is around 94% efficient (so it should be around 80+ platinum or titanium). And it has too, with 80+ bronze it would most likely just overheat immidiatly. It is a high end and very dense power supply that uses better parts than most PSUs on the market.
I have the Galax Katana as well. Bought it in 2018 as I wanted to put it in my Shuttle SZ270R8 and later my SH370R3. Its a great card. Love that its single slot, its perfect for Shuttle XPC's as they have an x16 and x4 slot.
Currently not using mine, but I did get new cooling pads for it and have it put back together. I might put it in my AMD Epyc 7332p system for Plex or maybe some premier transcoding. For now just have a P1000 card in my Epyc system
The amount of 3d printed parts you used in this build got me thinking about a project I never finished that 3d printing would be perfect for. I started it back around the time of the Tron Legacy release...it was a netduino powered Identity Disc with many more LEDs than the original toy I bought to make the project from. The idea was to make custom animations that looked much truer to the films than the original toy. My first attempt included cardboard cutouts to mount the LEDs on. Now you see where the 3D printer could come in handy. Now if only I had a 3d printer. I've wanted one for a while but I have limited funds and other things always take priority. The project is still a jumble of wired up LEDs in a box in my garage. Some day...
hey bro idk if you've seen the new 4060 by gigabyte it can fit in your pocket it may go well in here. you can wrap your entire hand around the card.
Next version work with send cut send and see if you can get flat metal parts, may help with space in the chassis.
Great a video glad to see you finish it
So glad to see this finished! I've been following this project in particular because I want to throw a raspberry pi into a dead xbox one. Can you do some elaboration on how you got the power button working? I can't find too much documentation online about how that button works.
The Series S only uses a momentary button, not the touch panel button like the PS consoles or One X. In this case, I bought a momentary switch and 3D printed a bracket to hold it behind the button. Then I hot-glued the crap out of the whole assembly to hold it in place :-D
@@CraftComputing That makes sense. Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know how you did that!
I put a Intel Thin ITX in a PlayStation One..Onboard Graphics and 2.5 inch HDD, but it's about 10 years old now and users a i7 3770s, so DX11 only. Over the years installed.a mSata and 4Tb HDD..On switch with LED works and so does the reset switch..Laptop Power supply..Never really finished the cooling, it to open the original CD lid to kept it cool, it runs hot with the lid closed.
another things is that the Xbox consoles are Windows Gaming PCs with some sort of customized windows all you'd need to make it an actual gaming PC is to get it to install and run PC games... every video creator though misses 1 thing when it comes into turned into some console into a gaming PC... that'd be to make sure to have some optical disc drive fit and work with the PC components to really stick with the console look
That is really cool. Good job on the xbox pc
this is freaking AWESOME! anyway to get the STL files for the project? I would love to make my own!
I'll see if I can post them in a couple days to the social medias. I think the only two relevant ones are going to be the motherboard tray and the rear IO panel. The rest of the parts were simple polygons that I could glue in for structure and then tap with a screw. Those are going to be up to you to figure out ;-)
Looks great , maybe use velcro to hold the power supply in the case you flip it upside down so it does not rattle ? Great work as usual !
Hell of a mod man congrats
DUDE it turned out great !!!!!!
I've been working on a scratch built case on and off for a few years now. It was going to be based around the mobo tray I pulled out of an old case, and as time has gone on I have decided to scrap that idea and go 100% scratch-built. Problem is life likes to get in the way of that one.... a lot.
Now I want to see one with a working disc drive. You can get a slot loading bd drive but they're pretty expensive.
adages, axioms, pithy maxims and aphorisms - put a fan or two in the back mounted externally to alleviate any heat soak - use the dremel
I didn't want anything poking out. The overall goal was to appear stock.
@@CraftComputing put a couple fans on the back and enjoy better and longer life of the appliance, why be rigid when simply doing a small commonsense mod will make all the difference
Well the Led does light up, but I guess he built a compact 2 terabyte system and forgot to show it booting an OS and actually running software, but the led did light up.
I think you did an awesome job with great advice. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Colorful just made a SFF Single Slot 4060ti, it's a good replacement for the A2000
for the gpu youi could of done a custom cooling system using copper pipes that have been designed like laptops to put it into the Xbox and you can use the speaker on the Xbox as an airway where you can put a tiny fan that will make sure the actual GPU that way you can put a full size GPU remove the actual fan on it and place the custom copper pipe so that you can have while making sure everything stays cool
but that's how I would go about putting a PC in an Xbox One S and making sure the GPU fits
You need to flip your cpu fan so it exhausts, this way it will pull air from the tiny holes around the chassis. This will also decrease heat build up on other components.
Maybe try some foam in the top of the case to hold the GPU in place?
Should have used the Xbox One S all digital shell since it's a much cleaner look without the disc slot.
Just picked up my GaN250W, now on the hunt for an A4000SFF.. But the 1800 Euro price tag stings.. Performance is unparalleled for the size though
Inspiration for mine too! Thanks Jeff😅
Why didnt put a 4k blu ray drive in it
Argh, I've got a B360 PIO board and some aluminum extrusion for corners. Need to get on that. Last thing I did was get a Noctua L9i mounted to the board (it has a weird layout like 2011 slim, but even worse, taller and slimmer, and LGA1151). I've got some aluminum bar stock and balsa. Possibly a good candidate for a backpack VR rig.
Awesome project. Which riser card did you use??
Granted there aren't many options among them, but there are Thin ITX motherboards that have PCIE slots. One of those would let you have a fully external power supply without any kind of mods. That would give more room inside and less heat from no PSU.