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<p>Ars&#8217; review of the latest Xbox hardware revision, <a href="http://ift.tt/2aZAJRy">the Xbox One S</a>, took a long look at the console&#8217;s updated exterior (along with its 4K- and HDR-related upgrades). To get to know its guts, however, we turn to the teardown experts at iFixit, who went on <a href="http://ift.tt/2aBtRti">a warranty-voiding dive</a> on Wednesday to find out how Microsoft shrank the system a full 42 percent.</p>
<p>In doing so, the site&#8217;s teardown team confirmed the myriad parts making up the full system, and as expected, we&#8217;re getting the kind of change in parts vendors and component sizes we expected from a three-years-later hardware revision. For starters, iFixit shows off the Xbox One S&#8217; updated, shrunken power supply, which is now fanless, embedded in the system, and wedged nicely alongside the updated cooling rig—a custom-molded 120mm fan, an aluminum heat sink, and a copper heat pipe set.</p>
<p>The launch edition&#8217;s 2TB hard drive can also be seen, and in good news, its interface has been upgraded from SATA II to SATA III. Our testing didn&#8217;t reveal any particular drive-speed boosts as a result of this, which is probably because the included Seagate drive runs at 5400 RPM (with a 32MB cache), but we&#8217;ll be curious to see whether the system&#8217;s loading times are boosted when a solid state drive is hooked into that SATA III interface; if the Xbox One S&#8217; SATA controller is rated for SATA III, the difference could be noticeable. Anybody who tests this, however, risks voiding Xbox&#8217;s hardware warranty.</p>
<p>Other interesting tidbits: the four major components mounted on top of the motherboard are numbered and set off with all-caps text (PWR, FAN, DISC, HDD); the disc-drive mounting component, attached to the system&#8217;s new BD-UHD drive, has been slapped with a new Master Chief logo; the outer case eschews screws in favor of rigid security clips; the weird speaker that came built into the first Xbox One has been removed; and the system is still relying on a whopping 16 embedded DDR3 SDRAM chips to reach its full 8GB of memory.</p>
<p><aside class="pullbox sidebar story-sidebar right" />As has already been reported, the system still uses a combined CPU+GPU chip provided by AMD, and iFixit has confirmed that its part number has changed. That&#8217;s because its GPU clock speed has been boosted to 914 MHz, which has recently been confirmed to contribute to boosts in upcoming <em>and</em> <a href="http://ift.tt/2afd82q">older games</a>. Otherwise, the CPU portion still consists of AMD&#8217;s 8-core, 1.75 GHz Jaguar part.</p>
<p>Though iFixit complained pretty heavily about the security clips, the teardown guide otherwise gave the system a surprisingly high repairability rating of 8/10. That rating is carried by a &#8220;modular&#8221; system design but hampered by the fact that a hard drive replacement effectively voids the warranty.</p>
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<p><em>Source: <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://ift.tt/2aUjNN9">xbox one &#8211; Google News</a></em></p>
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