Williamthev

Watched this with my GF, we both saw it, but aren't sure if it's intentional or not, but is the X upside down in the final build? both my GF and I agree it's upside down, but she's thinking that it may be intentional, or the way that it was up at NCIX, given their inconsistency with signage that Linux mentioned earlier in the video. Or maybe it was something that needed to happen with that particular build to get everything to fit properly?

My understanding is that by making it part of the USB4 Standard, that it will be a single unified stnadard which would allow eGPU systems to communicate with the host machine in a standardized manner. It definitely has the throughput to support eGPUs. I'm just imagining the possibilities of shrinking my build down to a small mini-itx case with a thunderbolt3 hub for I/0 and an eGPU that allows for a high-end GPU without dumping heat onto the rest of my system.

As for myself, I'm planning on replicating the "Fastest Xbox" build from a few weeks ago, but rather than take an angle grinder to the GPU, I'll use an eGPU setup that mirrors the "Cleanest Setup" from a few weeks ago. I won't have to worry about a GPU filling the chassis with too much heat, and maintenance will be so much easier. For future builds with my personal machine, I might downsize again to have a mini-itx with an eGPU and (paradoxically) better cooling.

Awesome! Thanks! It'll probably be over the next couple of months, I'll be taking pics and posting a build log once it's done.

After watching the sleeper Xbox Build, I haven't been able to let go of the idea of replicating the build. I have access to a machine shop this semester (Solid State Physics Lab class! Whoooo), and can most likely CNC the liner from the CAD files they provided in the description of the video. But it seems there was a LOT that kind of got yada-yada'd over. How did they wire the power button from the Xbox chassis to the ATX power pins on the motherboard? Did they just swap out the hardware for some other pushbuttons? How about the USB (2.1? 3.1?) ports in place of the xbox's proprietary controller ports? I have a dead Original xbox just rotting away in my closet, and I would love to have a sleeper for some couch gaming with my girlfriend. I'm still figuring out the exact hardware I want to use, part of me is thinking of just getting a NUC and mounting it alongside the internals of an EGPU inside the xbox chassis. But that still leaves the problem of the power switch and USB ports. In an ideal world, I'd 3d print or otherwise mount a mini-itx mobo tray inside the xbox, with some sort of solution for a gpu bracket as well (that doesn't involve hacking a port off), with the Xbox power and eject switches wired to the motherboard's power and reset connectors. edit since I forgot: To make it a hardware and software sleeper, once it's configured, I would use Windows 10 Pro's group policy editor to disable Explorer.exe, and instead force it to load steam.exe on startup, with flags both in steam settings and GPE to start steam's big picture mode on boot. I would also disable user pw and have it auto-login (the only thing loaded on it would be steam, and the windows account would be a local account, not a Microsoft account). Origin, Uplay, and GoG games would be loaded through the steam launcher.

ProtonMail's encrypted email service, and Signal for encrypted messaging. I'd actually LOVE to see a video or video-series on privacy-ifying one's life, from ditching facebook, getting away from google, to encrypting one's computers, using a VPN, and email services. There are privacy focused alternatives to popular services, and some of them are much better than others in terms of usefulness, usability, effectiveness, and pricing.