We put Windows on an Xbox! … Sort of

[Emily Young]

Not long before the Xbox Series consoles released, a strange listing sprang up on AliExpress: A motherboard with an AMD A9-9820, which until now, has only ever been used in the Xbox One S…

 

 

Check out the motherboard at https://lmg.gg/wGqaV

 

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[izz]

first LOL

 

[Tristerin]

@GabenJr my man, Ill be watching this later.

[Red :)]

so the border in-between an xbox and a pc is basically gone

[WhitetailAni]

The unification of your separate lineups is happening.

First it was Apple with the M1, now it's Windows and Xbox.

[Radium_Angel]

24 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

@GabenJr my man, Ill be watching this later.

Several other YTers have already reviewed this board months ago.

 

 

 

[bit]

so you didnt put windows on a xbox, got it

[Tristerin]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Several other YTers have already reviewed this board months ago.

 

 

 

Didnt Linus already?  Im pretty sure thats where I first heard of this board like 4 months ago?  I remember checking it out on Aliexpress after

 

Plus its really only for Anthony that Ill watch it lol - I just find his camera time worth spending my time on when it comes to tech

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, bit said:

so you didnt put windows on a xbox, got it

Most, if not all, LTT videos have titles that border on outright clickbait. If you haven't noticed this trend, you must be new here 

 

[sub68]

Because of the testing points I think this was a game console dev kit.

and they wanted it with all of the overbuilt I/O so it would be easier to do testing.

 

[bit]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Most, if not all, LTT videos have titles that border on outright clickbait. If you haven't noticed this trend, you must be new here 

oh sorry i forgot i can only talk about something once

[PlayStation 2]

I'm still super pissed about my A8-9820 motherboard arriving DOA.

[WhitetailAni]

Title = 50% clickbait. "We put Windows on an Xbox... sort of".

The "sort of" makes it not a complete lie, but really?
Your titles have fallen a lot compared to what they used to be in 2018/2019.

[Radium_Angel]

14 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

I'm still super pissed about my A8-9820 motherboard arriving DOA.

What were you going to do with it?

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

What were you going to do with it?

I predominately wanted to see what it could attempt to power through, then probably use it as a secondary capture machine.

At this point, though, it'd be nothing more than a redundancy, as I actually sucked the price of my PC upgrade up to actually be able to throw two capture cards into my PC, lmao.

[Emily Young]

34 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Several other YTers have already reviewed this board months ago.

Yeah, we only received ours I believe in mid December despite ordering it basically ASAP, and we were buried under the eternal TechTober releases at the time so it took until now to get to.

 

13 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Title = 50% clickbait. "We put Windows on an Xbox... sort of".

The "sort of" makes it not a complete lie, but really?
Your titles have fallen a lot compared to what they used to be in 2018/2019.

This title is basically the same as Anandtech's, just without the review bit tacked on at the end. I guess it could have been "Test driving an A9-9820", but nobody would know or care what that is.

[SFFDesigns]

6 minutes ago, GabenJr said:

I guess it could have been "Test driving an A9-9820", but nobody would know or care what that is.

Exactly. I (and probably many others) associate this board with the Xbox. They ran Windows on the "main" part of the Xbox, the SoC. I don't really see anything wrong with the title in this case. 

 

"Sort of" clarifies that it isn't running on an Xbox in my eyes

[Zagna]

The Chip Collective believes it is quad channel.

[jcawth97]

Does anyone know what the first monitor (with the super thin bezel) is? 

[Dutch_Master]

Linus, commenting about the comments: Yeah, so what?

 

He knows us sooo well.... 

 

(and proof he actually reads the comments )

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, GabenJr said:

"Test driving an A9-9820"

Unsure how long a title you can have, but you could have easily said the following:

"Review of xbox-based AMD mobo."

Would have been clear and concise.

[Emily Young]

1 hour ago, Zagna said:

The Chip Collective believes it is quad channel.

It might be (I saw that mentioned in the BIOS somewhere), but this board was flaky and frankly we had trouble getting it to run with two sticks, let alone four.

[Tristerin]

4 minutes ago, GabenJr said:

-snip-

Well what is unfortunate is you arent in the video.  At least not the intervals with which I checked so I cant watch it now.  Shame that.

 

On another note, because of my PFP (credit @Eschew) some new forum goers have called me Anthony.  I dont want to correct them. 

 

[Nena Trinity]

We need a ps5 version... Ryzen 7 2700x + RX 6700 as worst case scenario and Ryzen 7 3700x + RX 6700 XT?

[Vishera]

13 hours ago, Nena Trinity said:

We need a ps5 version... Ryzen 7 2700x + RX 6700 as worst case scenario and Ryzen 7 3700x + RX 6700 XT?

Gamers Nexus did a performance comparison between PC and PS5,

CPU required to match the PS5: Ryzen 3 3300X

GPU required to match the PS5 was all over the place,it ranged from a GTX 1060 to a GTX 1080