The "Off The Shelf" Original Xbox | Tech Wave!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The Original Xbox was Microsoft's first entry into the console market and they entered with a bang. The system itself is probably the closest we've ever been to a PC in a box even to this day with modern consoles. The Xbox was the most powerful console of the generation and brought some amazing features to the console space including fully featured online. Today we'll be taking apart the Xbox and taking a look inside at the motherboard and chips.
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My first home console back in 2003/2004.
And i still have it.
You know it’s a special occasion when Spawn uses the iconic Halo soundtrack while he takes apart a system..
Fo real
Thought I was trippin at first lol
When the original Xbox (2001) has more hard drive space than the Basic Wii U (2012)
Yung Henry
Now that's Just Sad
I never understood why Nintendo didn't just put a HDD in the WiiU, they could have just gone with a 500GB one, those were really cheap then.
Matthew Wells Nintendo did not go with an HDD because they are loud, slow, big and have a high failure rate. The Wii U was barely bigger than the original Wii which was amazing at the time do to how much stronger it was. Nintendo would not have had enough space to fit it along with them traditionally preferring internal memory storage which is the future anyway basically SSD’s. On top of that it supported external hard drives outside the box, so I don’t get why that was a problem.
Best years where 2000-2009 Read the comment chain and you will know why.
My launch PS3's 60GB HDD still works, my 360's HDD survived to work in 6 other units, my PC has a 5 year old HDD in there along with others, my old laptop from 2005 still has a working HDD. I've never heard of big failure rates with HDDs minus certain batches.
Why is supporting external HDD's a problem when you include almost no memory? Because that's MORE expense on top of buying the device in question.
Look at it this way: Switch retails for $300 bucks right? No. you need to buy a micro SD card to get any milage out of it. I got a 128GB one and that cost me an extra $50...ON SALE. So instead of buying a game, I had to buy storage because they decided to include less storage than my PS3 from 2006. 1 digital game on my WiiU and it's filled.
Even buying games physical when they sell them that way, I'm still using 26GB of storage, I don't see how you CAN'T see that's a problem. Also, if the internal storage goes bad on WiiU or Switch, you're borked. You can't easily swap it out.
Some of my best gaming memories are on the OG; Jade Empire, KOTOR 1&2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Halo 2, Fable, Morrowind. The good old days where Xbox had amazing exclusives. Now if you have a PC you basically have an Xbox as well.
For me: all of those, mech assault 1&2, and rainbow six 3.
Well... the PC had KOTOR 1 & 2, Jade Empire, Splinter Cell, Morrowind, an expanded version of Fable and even a late port of the OG Halo. Only Halo 2 had no PC version AFAIK. But its not a bad thing, up to 2004, for what you paid the OG Xbox was a BEAST in a very convenient, user-friendly, LAN ready package. I absolutely loved it.
Well for a bit of the part of xbox... As I'm trying to say you can only play 15 games with mouse and keyboard and you still can't download things online to play
@@diegofrgc Halo 2 did have a PC version but, It's games for windows live so I believe it now requires a patch to be played. I've got it in disk.
Bless you for the Halo music in the background.
The nostalgia... :D
How isn't that copyright striked
I remember playing, didn’t even remember the music hahaha
@@IntentionallyCringe I miss Halo 2 😥 and Halo 3 best games ever in history
Man, I love the original Xbox. It was my console of choice back in the day (I had a PS2 as well but only used that for exclusives at the time) and I still use it to play stuff like the old Burnout games and OutRun 2. Unfortunately, our PAL region systems were severely hampered in terms of potential because Microsoft disabled the progressive scan option and we couldn't use resolutions beyond 480i/576i, but that's easily fixed with mods and homebrew. I softmodded my Xbox a couple of years ago, and it was pretty awesome to finally see those old Xbox games running at 480p and even 720p!
The original Xbox has such an interesting piece of tech just take a look at Doom, Conker, Half Life 2 and some games ran at 720p!
They didn't run at 720p...... they were output at 720p but didn't render at 720p.
@@almighty151986 So what resolution does Amped 2 run at when it's in 720p? And don't say 480p because it can also run at 480p widescreen and it is obviously blurry compared to its native 720p mode. And the Xbox has no scaler unlike the Xbox 360 onward.
@@almighty151986 this is absolutely incorrect. Using component cables the original Xbox has many games which render natively at 720p and a handful which do 1080i. Some bizarrely output a 4:3 image at 720p, like Soul Calibur 2. Tony Hawk 4 does 16:9 720p and it is immediately obviously that you're looking at a HD image. It's true that many were only 480p even in widescreen, like Halo 2, but there were definitely some native 720p and 1080i games on it. I won't ask you to just take my word for it, you're already posting on the internet so look it up for yourself this info is widely available.
Some were even 1080i
XD
Good times. I remember having a huge 4 console LAN part at my buddy's place. We'd have Halo and Unreal tournaments with CAT wires coming from every room to connect to the hub and shouting across the house, pizza, "drinks" and just having a blast. His mom left us the house for the weekend and those were the best days. Now you have little 12 years screaming into their mic to tell you off.
Og xbox is great, tons of exclusives for it. 264 in north america. I own them all. Back when xbox had exclusives.
XBOX still has exclusives, But not that many for the XBOX ONE lately, PlayStation is doing better right now in exclusives.
Microsoft has basically given up on games just have the best hardware now.
Xbox was amazing back in the day, even back in the 360 days.
I agree they used to try. More often than not there exclusives were great for made me happy with each e3 year after year. Cant say i've been happy since the first kinect was made.
To be fair, it still has, just not as much as PS4. It would had more if they wouldn't had ported so many games to PC
I had over 500+ full cd's ripped and a ton of game saves and it still said 50,000+ blocks free too bad hdd's get filled with like 5 games now lol
I started in the 2 gb hard drive days. Can i get an a men
The Xbox only had 8-10GB of storage though, unless yours was modified? And even then, for example you couldn't fit 200 games (which are all on DVD) on a 250GB HDD. I should know, I've tried.
mine said 50,000 blocks free with music and game saves on it too. some kind of glitch...?
@@RWL2012 I think the Xbox converted songs ripped from CD to another format, that and the fact that blocks were quite small.
@@dabombinablemi6188 WMA at a fairly low bitrate I think
I've watched your other taking apart videos of different consoles but this one felt personal mainly because this was my first gaming system ever :')
When I tore down an "as-is" Xbox from Goodwill, I replaced the broken belt from the disc drive, and ended up with a few "extra" screws after I put the thing back together ;P It's ran fine for over a year, but I'm waiting for the day that it croaks!
Retro Tech Select I got one there too for 10 bux. The drive wouldn't open so I shook it a bit and It opened. Had a copy of halo 2 in it that was seated wrong.
Francis E. Eichler III That's awesome!
Shite yah, these vids are what caught my eye the first time. It was the switch tear down, all I was thinking was this dude has balls, subscribed
PerlerNostalgia so true
That's or Jon.
Ikr
Spawn Wave is a G
Coming here from watching the series x teardown and it's always amazing too see how far tech has come. Everything is so compact now.
I actually sold my PS2 because of the Xbox. The deal breaker for me was when I saw my friend playing Splinter Cell 1 on it. The graphics were amazing, especially the lighting. The PS2 and the Gamecube couldn't do that game justice the way Xbox did, which if you compare that version to the PC are virtually identical. I missed out on a lot of great PS2 exclusives for sure, but I never regretted trading up for the Xbox over it because it was such a great system. Glad to see it get some love.
ZafVirex They're honestly both legendary consoles and I don't think you could go wrong with either one.
Couldn't agree more! I recently bought a used PS2 and am finally catching up on the games I missed haha. I still have my original Xbox though and play it from time to time. Can't believe it still works after all these years.
I sold my PS2 to get an Xbox as well. I don’t regret getting the Xbox, but I wish I kept the PS2. At some point I’m going to hunt down a very good condition PS2.
It definitely is worth tracking down. I've been enjoying the hell out of mine the past month or so since I bought it. You can find one relatively cheap. I bought mine for about $130. Definitely invest in getting some quality component cables though if you do.
I definitely think the GC could have at least come closer than what the Ps2 could have done with Splinter Cell. It is more powerful for sure over PS2 but the Xbox on the graphics side of things was certainly a beast. I knew I needed one when I saw Doom 3, Chronicles of Riddick, Half Life 2 and Ninja Gaiden on it. Monster console for a 2001 release.
No mention of "GeForce3", or that Soundstorm was also used on NVIDIA-based motherboards at the time (ironically for AMD CPUs).
My favorite game console thus far. Owned Genesis, NES, Colecovision, Saturn,etc but this simple reliable machine brought me back to consoles.
You should definitely do future videos fully upgrading it. The upgraded cpu, extra ram and new hard drive, and show that process. Love your videos
One my favourite Console I had. And I didn’t get a new console till the PS4 released. Had some really good times clearing Halo, Project Gotham Racing 2, and NFSU2.
Ahhhh I can remember spring 2002 when I got mine @ Walmart $299... "There's no power greater than X" I remember this one dude making fun of the Duke controller when using the demo model... My first game besides the demo disc... It was Sega GT 2002/JetSet radio future combo.... I still have my Xbox on display in my living room... That capacitor thing you said makes me worry though.... Halo is epic....
You should definitely remove or replace the capacitor
I loved this console. So many wonderful memories of Halo parties in college. Thanks for the teardown mate. Solid stuff.
Awesome Tech vid Jon(SW). Excellent teardown of the original Xbox really good stuff.
The build of the Xbox, which yours is either a 1.1 or newer (easy way to tell is yours has an ATX plug power supply, the 1.0 used an AT style plug, single rail), used a different fan than the original 1.0 which has a 3 pin fan. Also the systems originally came with 8gb HDD but they upped it to 10gb, but partitioned them to 8gb still.
great videos when u take stuff apart - really informative
The thing that really makes this special is that the last day Xbox live would run on the original Xbox, some people stayed on till they’re Xbox’s would die off completely. It took over 3 weeks but the dedication showed Xbox something and now Xbox 360 Xbox live will stay running for as long as it possibly can because of those who dedicated to keep the original Xbox live on
Your wall looks great on video. Love how it turned out. Also enjoy you taking apart the gaming consoles.
I had the trace corrosion problem in my main XBOX 1.1. The clock cap had leaked and thus destroyed all of the traces leading to the front panel buttons (power and open dvd tray).
I eventually discovered that I could fix it by wiring up the power and open dvd tray pins from the yellow header connector to some points in a PIC which controlled those signals and instructed the console to either turn on or open the DVD tray. Despite this, my console has been running great and it now serves as a media playback device of choice. Very solid performance for media playback out of this box, a usb socket mod i made to which i then plugged in a cheap chinese USB remote control running with XBMC, + pretty amazing games running from its local hard drive make it a more than decent HTPC for the price.
God this system was amazing! Remember be soo thankful getting one for Christmas. Was my only gift but worth it
The Xbox is what got me into gaming really, The one I had in particular came with the Sega GT 2002/Jet Set Radio Future bundle disc. I even just recently picked up another one for free I plan on modding once I get a controller and see if it needs any fixing
I used my Xbox on a Samsung widescreen 32" 720P CRT... Still have that TV... Friggin fantastic picture still... Love the OG Xbox...
Those huge controllers fit the hands so nice. #HamburgerHands
Too big for me. Luckily I have an S controller as well
Randomninja47 I had one for my friends haha. That Co-Op split screen Halo...ahhh Middle School life.
John
I loved The Duke. It's a shame Microsoft didn't bother remaking them for the Xbox One for the original's 15th anniversary.
Gabriel360LIVE I thought they did remake it are remaking them they also come with top shoulder buttons in addition to the awkward black and white buttons
Have two of them! Rebuilt and modded one of them. Replaced the DVD drive and hard drive. Still works too
Agreed, the Halo: Combat Evolved soundtrack is awesome. Martin O'Donnell is a genius! Also, seeing an OG Xbox teardown never gets old! Lots of fond memories of the OG Xbox. Lots of great games.
Wow! You look so much better now! Good for you!
I’ve recently revisited mine to replay Jet Set Radio. It holds up surprisingly well.
Halo was actually my 2nd purchase when I first got mine. Oddworld Munch's oddysee was the first. Been hardcore Halo ever since though . Great video man brought back a ton of Xbox memories!
The new music format is awesome, great vid Spawn!
I remember when I got one when I was 9 years old. It was my first console that I had. Still have it to this day.
My first console was the Atari 2600. This was before circles were invented in gaming.
Yes, loved this video. Favorite consoles Sega Genesis and original Xbox. Use to do a ton of mods on halo, using the USB. I remember sending winters and and summers in my basement modding in private games with my friends. Great reactions.
The hard drive space was actually 8gb. They had a supply chain issue and it was cheaper to buy 10gb but the xzy partitions weren't used. You had to mod / enable them.
XYZ are the cache drives. Without them,no game can be run. It was the F drive that wasnt used on the 8GB drives. On the 10GB drives,you could format the F drive to gain an extra of 2 GB
Enjoyed the video, would love to see more like this. Thanks!
I liked the quality of the build - I used to be able to stick a butter knife into the disc drive to make the disc stop and I never had any issues with it. My Xbox One (2013) disc drive broke after 3 years of normal use
That bootup nearly hits me as hard as the PS1 bootup.. great stuff
remember doing beta for Xbox live great memories
I bought an xbox when it came out for the reason you mentioned at the beginning of this video . i had been building computers for games prior to the 1st Xbox release. When i read the specs i thought wow that's like a mini computer. I also bought it for Halo.
When you played that Halo music after playing that Xbox intro, that shit was exactly like how it sounded when I played on my original Xbox. It sounded like... Childhood. Feel free to judge me for playing Halo as a kid, but those days were amazing.
On the strip down you don't have to remove the rubber feet , or poke holes in it, these can be peeled back , the standard hdd was only 8gb ... due to the age of idie drives we use ide to sata adapters and can use drives upto 2tb... I own a few including year one (green console europe) predates the green halo edition by a year
Great memories for this 53 year old UK gamer!
I remember getting my X day one from my local independent game shop, I had been paying every week to pay it off so I could collect day 1.
On the day I believe my console had been the one only unit he had been able to secure too.
What comes to mind also was being able to play the xbox weeks before using a pod he had in the shop which was like a big bubble with an xbox incased behind glass, does anyone else remember these?
That day I went to the seaside and saw one other guy walking across the street with an xbox bag holding his new machine... Happy memories
You know; a lot of original Xbox’s are actually in really good condition now adays; most I have seen in person are always really clean, and will mostly only have some dust problems, and the power button on mine is unresponsive. But it still perfectly works
The problem with them is the clock capacitor WILL leak and that can cause damage to the motherboard. The one in the video looks like a 1.6 model which doesn't have that problem, but if you get a 1.0 - 1.5 then you run the risk of getting a leaking cap... As long as it hasn't damaged the traces on the board or corroded any of the surface mounts its pretty easy to remove and clean up (it doesn't need to be replaced).
The capacitors close to the PSU and CPU will probably also need replacing (they probably got replaced in the 'referb' of this one).
The last thing is if the Xbox has a Foxcon PSU then its prone to dry arcing as the solder joints are the only thing holding the plug to the PCB. Over time the solder cracks, the joints arc and the PSU 'dies'.
Once again, a pretty easy fix where you just re-solder the joints and reinforce the plug if you want to be thorough.
I have a 1.4 rev Xbox, and the only thing wrong is that I’m missing the front plate that goes around the power button, and I had to replace the drive band with a normal rubber band.
@@SnaxxNZGaming my xbox 1.6 clock capacitor is fine. But the 5 big ones around the cpu area are all busted with acid leaking from the top
This console is extremely under-rated. Also, it's a shame that Microsoft just abandoned this console the moment they put the 360 on the shelves.
My mom was real strict on how much we were allowed to play games, so at the time I didn't get a lot of use out of the XBOX despite having some great games on it. I remember one Christmas she bought us Halo 2 and my brother and I begged her to let us play it, only for us to fire it up and it hit us with the red ring of death. Years later I pulled it out the basement and it miraculously worked, but not for long...now it won't even turn on, and when you hit the power button it makes this faint whirring sound for a second. It's one of the only systems I've owned that I've opened up and not been able to fix no matter what I did. Most of the games work on my 360, so I haven't really looked back since...Awesome video, I had some good times with this thing even if it was shortlived and super frustrating to try to fix and then scrap.
The hard drives were not all 10 gigs. they ranged from 8 to 20 gigs, depending on if they were refurbished, or what parts were cheap when they made it. they were all partitioned to the same size, oddly enough. the OS was a stripped down version of XP and only needed 2-3 gigs of space to run.
Had one and loved it so much. Homebrew made it a f*cking machine for everything.
Original Xbox is somewhat off the shelf, but its gpu is pretty custom made nividia card that is between a geforce 3 and 4 in features, but its soundsystem is also custom also.
My favorite console ever, what a magnificent beast.
Very cool console, my first Halo machine. Got some sweet memories coming back form the music in this video!
It came with an 8.4Gb HDD, not 10. The later revisions may have used 10 depending on the availability/price of the 8.4s.
The P3 chip was also slightly modified, but I can't find out how.
I've just ordered a couple of the 2.5v super capacitors for my xboxes. They both leaked, thankfully nothing was damaged.
Loved my OG Xbox!!! The whole Splinter Cell Trilogy was phenomenal on there!!
I would love for Microsoft to use the same startup animation program for the newer Xboxes.
Because today it’s just a video file that is played, whereas on the OG Xbox it was an in system animation. It was cool and todays systems are more than powerful enough to do it.
man John the quality of the videos have come a long way since this time. in such a short amount of time really.
Trip down memory lane. I was an Amusements Manager at Jillian's at the Mall Of America (Gameworks Now) and I had a side business modding Original Xboxs out of my Office/Shop
I grew up on this! It was the first console I played.
The thing I like about the xbox series is that they are basically a pc.Thus it is easier to play older games.
Nick Loquellano
You mean the backwards compatibility? Two things that have killed it for me since the One came out; having to install the dics before playing, and it being restricted to only a select number of titles. That means some of my favourite games from last-gen, like Skyrim and Batman: Arkham City are unplayable on a system that has backwards compatibility as a selling point.
I know not all games are available but at least it is better than what the ps4 can offer.
Nick Loquellano
I will concede it is, by definition, literally better than nothing.
Agent_Venom009
I've been actually looking for some of that 'original hardware,' namely a PS1 so I can play the early Metal Gear and Silent Hill games, and backwards compatibility is important for two reasons. Firstly, it's fucking near-impossible to actually get that original hardware for less than the price of a current-gen console. Secondly, backwards compatibility gives a clear indication of progress over history. You can play past and present games on the same system, side-by-side to see what improvements were made and what could have been kept. All those lessons are forgotten if you ignore the gaming history that came before.
+Oscar McCormack tht and possible improvements made to them like better ansiotropic or higher native res for example. (well for OG and S models it wuld b for the OG xbox titles while X give those enhancements to 360 titles.)
I love opening games systems and seeing whats in there.
I like to eat the chips
It actually does not use an off the shelf P3, its more of a hybrid Coppermine P3 and a Celeron. Also, the nVidia chipset in the Xbox was originally designed for AMD's CPU's, which eventually is why we got the nForce. The GPU is also similar in nature to the Geforce 3, however a tad bit more powerful.
The music montage is interesting.
Dreamcast 1,5 ; ) The MS SEGA BOX
I have an original Xbox but the DVD drive isn't working... :( Tried disassembling the drive to fix it but it didn't do much to fix the issue.
I've had weird issues with the DVD drive too, luckily mine still works but I sometimes have to jam something inside of it to pull it open because it just won't always come out on its own.
JayShwifer hack it
JayShwifer you need the dvd attachment/remote for the system believe it or not. A form of drm in 2001!!
Most common problem is the drive belt, which is an easy fix.
JayShwifer you need to put a new rubber band in the drive.
i remember getting this back in 02 for my 6th birthday... oh how i miss those times
@spawn Wave. Do you have any videos on how to replace the capacitors on the original Xbox and Xbox 360? I heard they have bad capacitors when first came out especially over the years.
Playing with Halo and DoA3 with the Duke like it's 2001 is what I'm doing right now. Found DoA3 at a Goodwill the other day. Found DLC for the game via Exhibition Disc that I found at a Thrift Store nearby it, which had a demo of Halo Combat Evolved as well!
you got it wrong about the RAM, it was actually four chips at 16mb a piece, two on top of the board and two on the bottom of the board. There are also four more empty RAM slots on the version 1.0 through 1.4, two top, two bottom. You can also recognize the 1.6 by the Xcalibur video chip as well as the upgraded, re-positioned clock capacitor, and removed RAM expansion slots.
I played mostly Halo on my original xbox but also Ninja Gaiden, Jade Empire, Star Wars ep 3 game, Return of the King game, Lotr: The Third Age. I'm sure there's more but It's been boxed away for years now lol Great system. I remember wanting to change to it from Gamecube because it was more 'grown up' haha
You said that they did a retention lever on the CPU. Yes and no. There were several versions of the motherboard over time as parts became cheaper over time and/or MS was trying to be smarter about the parts they used). I have the original v1.0 motherboard which was the only one to have a heatsink with a fan (these fans were known to die, so they quickly moved to a crappy heatsink in the next couple models before moving up to the better heatsink you see in your model).
Best console of all time. Still got mine and play it regularly
Really fun video and congratulations on 100k
I was a PS2 owner 2 years before I bought my Xbox. I bought the bundle with the mini controller & Jet Set Radio Future. I miss those days.
Halo and Jet Set Radio Future ❤️
What was that game demo that came with Halo? It was like a mini game
I think they used torx because no one at the time really had them around the house so MS did not have to worry about you taking it apart with a normal screwdriver.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, loved the original halo soundtrack
Halo 2 was by farrrrrr the funnest game to Play on Xbox live! Sooooo many memories
That connection to the power supply looks suspiciosly like a standard PC power connection. I wonder if the pin outs are the same...
I'd really like to see some videos on repairing/modding retro consoles
After seeing how big the hard disk and disk drive were, I actually thought the Xbox had no Motherboard 😅
No kidding I'm just about to play gunvalkyrie right now on it
I need it for my collection
My all time favorite console, own almost 150 games for it.
OG Xbox is my favorite system to date. Still have my original one and even bought an additional one
My favorite feature of any console I’ve ever owned is the ability to rip your cd’s to the Xbox hard drive, and then listen to your music in certain games. I’ll never forget playing gta 3, and figuring out that I could listen to my own music. Idk why they removed that feature. I was so disappointed when I found out my Xbox one, my one X, and my series x can’t do what my OG Xbox could do.. oh well, I love my box’s regardless.
When I first had one it was sweet, but when I tried to get one a couple of years ago I couldn’t get one, then I thought I won’t bother to get one I saw them everywhere so I picked one up . I can even say it is one of my favourite systems.
I love that "Epic Halo Music". Takes me back to the Blood Gulch days, playing till sun up :)
I remember the Christmas I got my xbox original. My dad got me halo behind my mom's back because it was rated m but my dad knew that's THE game I wanted haha so that was an awesome surprise! I loved that system.
Amazing 👏👏👏 This console blew my mind as a kid. Halo, GTA, So many cool Star Wars games. I remember playing Jet Set Radio and NFS Underground 2 at a friends house. Call of Duty Finest Hour. Rollercoaster Tycoon on Xbox! And I was convinced the hard drive was infinite, just never ran out of storage. And you could rent actual games from a shop near by. What an age it was! Recently went back to experience original PGR 1 and 2. I loved 3 and 4 so much on next generation Xbox 360. Also Xbox original MadCatz controllers were cool back in the day!
This console shaped the way we game today.
Not that much.
Well Online is a huge thing right now, The biggest thing in gaming right now, it's very important so yeah the original XBOX is the one who started Online
Cesar Alvarez Nintendo and Sega did it before the Xbox.
Well online existed before Xbox, Dreamcast was the first console with online gameplay built-in, and even Saturn and N64 had it with add-ons. Xbox was just another system in the line of progressively better online.
gingataisen The N64 had internet games.
Halo 2, memories of 4 player slayer and just all night competing. At least I can still do that with the Master Chief Collection
i remember playing call of duty 3 on the original xbox at the end of the generation and it looked so much better that the wii version a console that had just came out. Also splinter cell, especially chaos theory, on xbox blew ps versions out of the water. This console was and still is a beast. The games hold up better that any other system from that gen pc excluded of course.
The OG Xbox packs a GeForce Ti 4200 equivalent. Interesting setup with the dual channel memory 32MB x2. My 2005 model is still going strong.
On the Pentium 3. Just a quick FYI that no one seems to remember. It's not actually a 'full' P3. You may have noticed the 128 next to the core speed of 733. The 128 is the amount of cache and desktop Pentium 3 had more. If I remember correctly, mobile Pentium 3 (or at least a sub set of) also had reduced cache which is how it managed to keep the Pentium 3 name and not be branded as a Celeron.
I still have my Original Xbox Halo clear green edition. It's a very solid system. I worked at a Family owned Game Store at the time, and we would repair consoles. PS2 (best selling console of all time) systems would come in for repairs constantly. The Original Xbox and Gamecube hardly ever came in for repairs. I like the weight of the console and it's modular design. Microsoft Live was amazing when it came out. Microsoft really did not make money on console, I think it was a loss leader. The 360 would of been profitable if not for all of it's issues with it's form factor and overheating problems. I believe the Xbox one is the first Microsoft system to turn a profit. Microsoft (Bill Gates) has invested a lot of time and money to get where they are at now and I hope in the future they have even more success.
Love ogxbox, at least he's tearing apart a 1.6 leaving more of the tsop capable ones out in the wild.
Nvidia SoundStorm was pretty awesome. Had a few PC's back then with it. Too bad Nvidia didn't keep doing audio.
The hdd in those u could never even put a dent in space wise 50,000+ blocks free lol
facts lol
I checkes mine yesterday. Still 50,000+ free and I have a ton of games on it lol. And like 10 audio cds.
You'll never fill that up