The similar fanatic who remodeled an Xbox One S console right into a full-blown gaming PC has come again and accomplished the identical factor to Microsoft’s newest Xbox Series X console. YouTuber PhaseTech printed a video exhibiting how he accomplished his Series X PC mod from begin to end, going over elements choice and the 3D printed elements he created to make the Xbox chassis appropriate with the brand new parts.
For half choice, PhasedTech opted to make use of Intel’s NUC 12 Extreme PCIe compute card, geared up with a Core i7-12700, 32GB of DDR4, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. The YouTuber initially wished to go along with a Mini-ITX resolution, however discovered the Xbox Series X clamshell will not be vast sufficient to assist ITX boards. At simply 4.75 inches thick, the NUC 12 Extreme is nearly 2 inches thinner than a Mini ITX board, making it greater than skinny sufficient to suit contained in the Series X.
The remainder of the construct was comprised of a low-profile Gigabyte RTX 5060 graphics card and a 600W Flex ATX energy provide. This mixture allowed the YouTuber to suit the ability provide above the graphics card within the Xbox chassis with peak to spare. A full-height graphics card would have made this configuration inconceivable and compelled the YouTuber to make use of an exterior energy provide.
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The chassis was modded to offer the required mounting factors to attach the compute card, graphics card, PSU, and a 120mm cooling fan to the chassis. The YouTuber created a plethora of 3D brackets to offer reinforcement and hook all 4 parts to the Xbox shell, and created a 3D printed again panel for the console that includes all the required cutouts to assist the rear I/O.
Several of the brackets had been made to prop up the compute card and graphics card within the baseboard and stop each playing cards from bending inside their respective PCIe slots. The relaxation had been used to assist the 120mm cooling fan, PSU, and DVD-ROM drive. The DVD drive was salvaged from the actual Xbox Series X internals and modded to work with the PC. Work additionally needed to be accomplished to make the entrance energy button appropriate with the NUC.
After creating all the required brackets to attach all the parts collectively. The YouTuber put the pc board, baseboard, GPU, energy provide, and DVD-ROM drive collectively, then dropped and secured the parts into the Xbox clamshell, and eventually secured the 120mm exhaust fan on the finish. PhaseTech reported good efficiency from the system after booting it up, with temperatures hovering round 75C for the CPU and GPU.
The undertaking demonstrates what is feasible with a small-form-factor construct when a devoted fanatic is armed with a 3D printer. The Xbox Series X chassis is not the smallest computer chassis in the world, but it is one of the smallest that someone has been able to install a full-fledged PC into, including an integrated PSU and DVD-ROM drive (for context, the Corsair One i500 is 3.62 x 1.42 x 5.87 bigger than the Series X). PhaseTech’s build serves as a sneak peek of what Microsoft’s future Xbox consoles will be capable of. The company has already confirmed that Project Helix will be capable of playing Xbox and PC games.
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