The 'Off The Shelf' Original Xbox | Tech Wave!

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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[AlessandroCussino]

My first home console back in 2003/2004.
And i still have it.

[schantzee]

Bless you for the Halo music in the background.

[Cygis]

When the original Xbox (2001) has more hard drive space than the Basic Wii U (2012)

[nocfox]

You know it’s a special occasion when Spawn uses the iconic Halo soundtrack while he takes apart a system..

[Dashz]

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!

[Girzzlyঐু]

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.

[gamemaniac]

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.

[thizlam]

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.

[bpalpha]

My favorite game console thus far. Owned Genesis, NES, Colecovision, Saturn, etc but this simple reliable machine brought me back to consoles.

[DMRetroLP]

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!

[chrisbaughman]

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

[micah]

Wow! You look so much better now! Good for you!

[DatGameCollector]

Og xbox is great, tons of exclusives for it. 264 in north america. I own them all. Back when xbox had exclusives.

[killerkip]

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.

[statichelix]

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

[RetroTechSelect]

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!

[christophereguizabal]

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 :')

[hnafiem]

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.

[ZafVirex]

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.

[Mikuz]

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