In straying from previous video game computers, the Xbox Series X stands upright rather than directly placed. Microsoft says the design choice was part of an effort to make the hardware fan as big and efficient as possible.
The company put its thinking inside a recent interview with Digital Foundry Eurogamer. An unusual feature of the console is the product of two things: the need for a light drive that can read the discs and the need to add a heat exchanger volume to address the high power requirements. The result is something that people do immediately it is comparable to kitchen appliances following its first reveal on 2019 Game Awards.
"Jim (Wahl) talked about how the ODD (Optical disc drive) sets the dimensions, the temperatures set another size, the altitude is set by the airflow and throughout this kind of difficult discussion to figure out how this thing fits together, we've come to a square we like it, ”Chris Kujawski, chief executive of Microsoft, told Digital Foundry.
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In addition to the design as a fridge, the Xbox SThe eries X & # 39; s are always high and have huge holes even more than the previous comfort so the hot air it produces is able to get out faster. "He has come out on top and we have big holes to get in, but the overall result of putting all this together, he has the versatility, he has this super strong quiet fan up, that we get 70 percent more. This is past generation and we get 20 percent more air. by using one heatsink than in the previous generation, ”said Jim Wahl, director of project engineering.
While the Xbox Series X may look like a fridge, it actually serves as a cooling tower for the Zen 2 CPU tower and the RDNA 2 GPU inside. I hope it's quieter than my PS4.
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