TechTV Cracks Open The Xbox

Kevin writes: "TechTV has posted some pictures of the inside of the Xbox ... Interesting stuff, I believe Patrick Norton from The Screen Savers is working on overclocking it." Warning: doing this might reduce your eBay resale value.

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Warning

[jdc180]

Warning:
By opening, you might let out the intel!

so what does the price tally to

[blonde rser]

Now that we can get our hands on the parts and see what they are has anyone summed up their street value and compared that to the unit price. Next time I put a system together would it be worth it to pick up an Xbox strictly for cannibal purposes?

Overclocking a game console ??

[Thomas Miconi]

"Whoaaa, your new ultra-fast shoot'em up game really kicks ass !"

"Well, er, actually it's a port of Super Mario Bros I"

Thomas Miconi

Re:The actual pictures are here...

[yatest5]

Blimey - I viewed it with IE and it was absolutely fine! Bit of a shocker that eh - I thought *everything* microsoft did was a bunch of crap ;-).

Or is it?

[O2n]

Warning: doing this might reduce your eBay resale value.

Only if you conisder selling yourself.
Come to think of, I thought slavery was abolished looong time ago. Hmmm... :)

Cracking open the box

[Efg�]

Instead of going all this trouble to crack open an Xbox, the should just ship it via UPS...

Re:Like a Buick

[erasmus_]

I'm glad you think a hard drive is a dumb idea. That's sort of (the opposite of) what I was thinking when I ripped a bunch of audio tracks onto it yesterday, and was playing them instead of the game soundtrack, completely enhancing my gameplay. Oh, and it's horrible that I don't have to buy memory cards as well, or worry about running out of space for saved games. The hard drive is a feature that other consoles will soon regret not having.

Re:XBox freezing - The Solution!

[erroneus]

Microsoft has addressed the problem of constant and continuous freezing. As can be noted in the illustrated disection of the XBox, you will see multiple fans placed within the chassis. You will also notice that there appears to be a heat-related device placed upon one of the chips on the main board.

Given that the machine's outter chassis doesn't lend itself easily to the free flow of air through the chassis, then surely, the fans are used to distribute the air within the chassis itself. If that is the case, which I believe is true, then the air passing over the heat-related device affixed to one of the system's chips is then warmed and distributed within the chassis.

This would give the effect of evenly distributed warming within the chassis of the XBox device and thereby ambiguously warming any device within the XBox that is otherwise prone to freezing.

I have heard that if the problem perisists that Microsoft will supply a service-pack module (for $150) that strangely resembles a George Foreman grill. You are expected to mount the XBox within the service-pack module. The service-pack module is to be pre-heated a minimum of two minutes prior to game play.

At first note, it might appear to be objectionable that a user would have to wait such a long time for "pre-heating." However, Microsoft recommends hand-stretching exercises during this time period to help reduce the adverse effects of using their game controller.

So you see, it all comes together rather harmoniously in the end.

Long live XBox!

I dunno about buying it on eBay..

[gatesh8r]

Uncle Bill says that if it is off of eBay it's probably pirated, and I don't want a pirated X-Box... I'm going to be a good boy and overpay for it at a department store! That way I can check the holographic inside of the box to make sure it's genuine!!!