Xbox Series S Reveals a Brilliant Teardown. While at the moment there is a lot of focus on the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, The Xbox Series S might just wind right up being one of the major surprises of this interesting new generation.
The Xbox Series S happens to be underpowered compared to the Xbox series X and PlayStation 5 but is at $300 price, and its ability to be able to play current-gen games at a much lower target resolution and framerate could make it an attractive buy for some of the gamers. Now thanks to the interesting new teardown. We would be getting to take a look right inside the Xbox Series S.
Xbox Series S Reveals a Brilliant Teardown
This teardown was performed by Rich Leadbetter of the always-excellent Digital Foundry, though if you happen to be worried that a functioning Xbox Series S was taken down in this age of console shortages, you would get to breathe a sigh of relief. Leadbetter stated at the outset that this would actually be a console that was bricked right in an entirely different experiment. So, this happens to be no functional hardware being taken down here.
Leadbetter Xbox Series S Teardown
Leadbetter stated that this teardown would need a Torx 8 security screwdriver to take out all the screws that are in the system and note that the back can be removed by removing only two screws. The back, lid, and internal chassis were taken out. This clears the Xbox Series S uses up pretty much all the space right in its small footprint.
Having taken out the main fan, we would see a modular supply and a huge heatsink covering the console’s SoC. Both of them are huge enough to cover a whole Xbox Series S motherboard, and it’s right on that power supply that will find the hidden master chief easter egg.
Also, we would get to look right through a tiny PCle SSD that offers the Xbox Series S with its 512GB of storage. The most interesting part of Leadbetter’s teardown is when he shows us the Xbox Series X SoC layout for the very systems thanks to the diagrams that Microsoft offered to the Digital Foundry.
Inside an Xbox Series S
Well, it is really great and illuminating to look right into the Xbox Series S, and we would get to look without having to take apart our very own consoles. As a matter of fact, it’s a really great idea for you to keep your very own Xbox Series S intact because Leadbetter notes that immediately after the cooling assembly is taken out The console would be damaged irrevocably.
