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ELpork  +   114d ago
Glad to hear Msoft doing something cool with HDD's for once.
VoiceMale  +   114d ago
Yea sounds cool to me alright
Maddens Raiders  +   114d ago
Only MS.....smh.
zod18  +   114d ago
inveni0  +   114d ago
P0werVR  +   114d ago
Oner  +   114d ago

Where you at now?
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frostypants  +   114d ago
UltimateMaster  +   114d ago
Nah, it won't work.

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darkride66  +   114d ago
darthv72  +   114d ago
So what is that extra 8GB of NAND flash memory for?
Sarcasm  +   114d ago
scott182  +   114d ago
Delive  +   114d ago
CarlosX360  +   113d ago
BBBirdistheWord  +   113d ago
omg @ oner




Do try to relax.
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knockknockannefrank  +   113d ago
that fan is huge
SilentNegotiator  +   113d ago


At least they can replace a broken one easily.
Eonjay  +   114d ago

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FITgamer  +   114d ago
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malokevi  +   114d ago


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nukeitall  +   114d ago

Hozi  +   114d ago

Here are the launch games' install sizes:

Angry Birds Star Wars: 1.81 GB
Assassin’s Creed 4: 20.25GB
Battlefield 4: 33.66GB
Battlefield 4 Premium: 8.18MB
Call of Duty: Ghosts: 39.5GB
Crimson Dragon: 6.88GB –
Dead Rising 3: 19.9GB
Dead Rising 3: Day One Premium Edition: no size
FIFA 14: 8.7GB
Fighter Within: 9.22 GB
Forza 5: 31.76 GB
Just Dance 2014: 22.97GB
Killer Instinct: 3.25GB
Killer Instinct Ultra Edition: 3.25GB + 7.51MB
Kinect Sports Rivals Preseason: 3.09GB
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: 6.48GB
LocoCyle: 13.17GB
Madden NFL 25: 12.51GB
NBA 2K14: 43.14GB
NBA Live 14: 9GB
Need for Speed: Rivals: 15.35GB
Powerstar Golf: 3.92GB
Ryse: 34.94GB
Skylanders Swap Force: 15.72GB
Xbox Fitness: 252.13MB
Zoo Tycoon: 2.62 GB
Zumba Fitness World Party: 24.14GB
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esemce  +   114d ago




You have been warned.
nypifisel  +   114d ago
Killa78  +   114d ago

BeathuberCH  +   114d ago
you still can go to the shop and ask if they can switch the hdd by there inhouse customer service in half a minute....
Soldierone  +   114d ago
nypifisel  +   114d ago
jacksons98  +   114d ago
assdan  +   114d ago
RjK311jR  +   114d ago
assdan  +   114d ago
SL1M DADDY  +   114d ago
NeloAnjelo  +   114d ago
ziggurcat  +   114d ago
@ ELpork:

ELpork  +   114d ago
FamilyGuy  +   114d ago
2. The X1 is even more overpriced than originally assumed.
Godmars290  +   114d ago
tagan8tr  +   114d ago
@oner that was awesome bubble up sir..
trancefreak  +   114d ago

AlexanderNevermind  +   114d ago
GentlemenRUs  +   114d ago
That's the catch!

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Mr-Dude  +   114d ago
forcefullpower  +   114d ago
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Killa78  +   114d ago
GentlemenRUs  +   114d ago
GraveLord  +   114d ago
stupid people
Belking  +   114d ago
lol..i would hardly call that a tear down.
rdgneoz3  +   114d ago
gazgriff2k12  +   114d ago
OFF THE SHELF LOL (build ya own xbone)
ELCUCO  +   114d ago
That's definitely voiding warranty
BG11579  +   114d ago
As they say, change the hdd at your own risk.
Funantic1  +   114d ago
This was a pointless article if they haven't fully disassembled the X1 and listed the parts. What are they going to do, write an article for each part?
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LordDhampire  +   114d ago
Im digging that big fan, like it better thans the ps4s at least

Will the xbox work with a bigger harddrive tho? The os might not support it
OrangePowerz  +   114d ago
Well bigger fan doesn't necessarily mean that more air is moved around. The smaller fans often run faster and can move air more efficient compared to the bigger and slower fans.
kewlkat007  +   114d ago
BS.. The bigger the fan the less it needs to run at higher rpms to cool, moves more are and is more quiet.

Trying to equate what I just wrote to smaller fans is absurd.

You people build computers?
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torchic  +   114d ago

there really is no better, it depends on the application, motor used for turning fan etc.

bigger fans sweep more air, but require more power to be driven at higher speeds, smaller fans sweep less area of air away but require less power to be driven at higher speeds.

in the end both are probably best for their respective application but I'd trust Sony more as they have a better track record. I remember my friend's environmental physics practical and how he basically got the same results no matter what kind of fan he used.
GameSpawn  +   114d ago
The difference is one uses a fan the other uses a blower.

The average joe may say a blower is a fan, but it just isn't. The physics of how each moves air is different due to the blade geometry and arrangement.

Blowers will always move CFM of air per RPM than fans purely because of how much air is being captured and "thrown".

It is true that the larger a fan is the less RPMs are required to move the same CFM, but that is if were are talking apples to apples and fans to fans, but we are not.
Sarcasm  +   113d ago
^Kewlkat, Orange is right though. The size of the fan doesn't mean more air is moved. Static pressure is a variable too. Basically the way the Xbone fan is designed is like a cheap desktop PC, just a standard heatsink and a standard fan. Pretty lame.

On the PS4 it has an elaborate cooling solution similar to that of a thin laptop which takes much more engineering to make efficient.
Hicken  +   114d ago
Yeah, sorry. But the PS4's fan definitely looks capable of moving more air, more efficiently. The fan on the XB1 looks like something out of a PC I bought at Circuit City back in 2004.
DJ  +   114d ago
PS4 has two fans, one on top of the motherboard and one on the bottom. They're also tightly integrated into the system design.

The Xbox one fan looks like something i could buy off Newegg, haha.
KYU2130  +   114d ago
Its likely that MS doesn't want to release a firmware download setup a replaced hard drive. We will probably see usb based hard drive solutions. MS wants to keep the OS inaccessible.
Kayant  +   114d ago
Yep it makes sense now the only way they want you to have access to XB1 FW is through XBL. They have recently removed instructions & the support link on updating it offline.
DestinyHeroDoomlord  +   114d ago
So... cheap repairs?
KYU2130  +   114d ago
cheap repairs, maybe.. but the final repairs cost will probably be contingent on how MS makes the firmware accessible if the drive needs to be replaced or refreshed.
Cerbus  +   114d ago
Just like the 360 HDD it will have encryption.
Pogue1906  +   114d ago
The article mention that its a couple of things on top of the hard drive that would need to be removed that i would be scared of fooling with, and the other off the shelf items, besides the hard drive, that the article talks about are the screws used to hold everything together. Reading that took 2 min of my life that i can never get back. What a waste of time
strigoi814  +   114d ago
warranty void..isnt it clear who wants more money from their consumers?
Convas  +   114d ago
#NOPE. USB 3.0 external HDD for me, not messing around with that.
Shakengandulf  +   114d ago
Good move.
ziggurcat  +   114d ago
you probably won't be able to access the entire drive. it's MS we're talking about here - we've just seen that it's a standard HDD inside the xbone, but they're not letting people upgrade if they wanted.

yes, i know they've said that xbone supports the use of external media... but X360 also technically "supports" external media, and how much space is accessible if, say, you plug in a 1TB drive? 32GB at most. so, yeah... i wouldn't get too excited about plugging in that huge external drive of yours. they have never even mentioned how much "support" xbone has for these devices.
ziggurcat  +   114d ago
if they put in a replaceable HDD then why are they telling people that it's not repla... oh, i get it - they're sleazy.

and off-the-shelf parts? bu-bu-but i thought that xbone was all custom?
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DestinyHeroDoomlord  +   114d ago
Troll mimic begone
pyramidshead  +   114d ago
Show me the DGPU.
ziggurcat  +   114d ago
there was never any dGPU.
MasterCornholio  +   114d ago
Yes there is and i have proof.

kewlkat007  +   114d ago
Can you replace that heatsink fan
gamingisnotacrime  +   114d ago
since they made the hdd hard to replace, 500Gb is too little in this digital era
Soldierone  +   114d ago
The One is basically huge because of that giant arse fan. Making a slim should be easy for them.
MRMagoo123  +   114d ago
its running hotter than the ps4 as is, what if they made it smaller and didnt put in the best fan for the job aka being cheap.
Soldierone  +   114d ago
A fan is just there for air flow. You can get smaller fans and have good air flow.

The only real positive side to the larger fan is that it will be much more quiet than small ones.

But in terms of air flow, it'd be better to have small fans pushing cool air in, then other small fans pushing the hot air out. By the time they make a slim, they should also be able to make it more efficient with the heat as is.
IRNMUNKEY  +   114d ago
Looks a lot more complicated than the PS4 motherboard.
ironmonkey  +   114d ago
Looks like a mess to me. ps4 has a slide top to pop out then pop in done.
sprinterboy  +   114d ago
Warranty will be void too opening xbone to replace hdd like that I'm sure?
CaruthK  +   114d ago
So it's a microATX PC with XboxOne slapped onto the case. Lmaooo I'm still going to get one just now now...
Strange_Days  +   114d ago
I'd much rather get something like this to accompany my XB1....

SITH  +   114d ago
I have a 2 TB western digital external hard drive for my xbox one when external drives are enabled.
quenomamen  +   114d ago
So where's the final production PS4 VS X1 hardware comparisons ? Past 6 months have been nothing but CPU speed bump this, Second GPU that. Can we put these to bed already ?
ziggurcat  +   114d ago
they're *still* going on about xbone secret sauce at the misterx delusioblog. even claiming that xbone has 2014 PC tech...
duli14  +   114d ago
pyramidshead  +   114d ago
Keep it secret...........keep it safe.
Sarcasm  +   113d ago
The only confirmed specs are on the GPU side. The CPU side is all conjecture.

1152 Stream Processors
18 CU's

768 Stream Processors
12 CU's
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XboxFun  +   114d ago
Interesting, even though you can hook up an external HDD I am still curious if another bigger internal HDD will work.

But I am guessing NO, one of my only gripes about the Xbox One is why didn't that choose to have a swappable HDD like the PS4.
solidboss07  +   114d ago
Idiots. Claiming easily replaceable parts - that aren't. If they had even done it themselves and proven the concept of replacing them, then tech heads could think 'maybe'. Why put up that article?
kewlkat007  +   114d ago
Like somebody said, they should easily be able to slim this device down in the future iterations.
WitWolfy  +   114d ago
Why buy a bigger hdd when there is THE CLOUD!!!
SITH  +   114d ago
That is one thing I admire about sony, they allow such easy access to the Ps4. I think MS is being overly protective when it comes to the hard drive. I want an SSD in my xbox one. I have two in my gaming pc running in Raid0 and it is total bliss.
Kyur4ThePain  +   114d ago
Sorry - if it voids your warranty you can't refer to it as replaceable.
Don't add untrue features.
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