Could you take parts out of a console and move them to a PC?

[Khajiit Dealer]

I was just wondering if this was possible. Not saying I'm gonna make a Frankenstein machine or anything 

 

By parts I mean the GPU and CPU. 

[don_svetlio]

Likely not - probably soldered to the motherboard.

[IceWolfPuppies]

Mabye the hard drive

[Br3tt96]

Nope. 

[Guest]

no, hell no

why even?

no just no.

thats not how this works

[App4that]

It is a computer, so yes.

[MblaZe7run]

No, but a pal of mine took the crap out of his Xbox original and made a sleeper!

[ANewFace]

Only the hard drive, but still you are going to get a crap 5400RPM 2.5in HDD

[App4that]

Only the hard drive, but still you are going to get a crap 5400RPM 2.5in HDD

that was my trap card.

[MblaZe7run]

Only the hard drive, but still you are going to get a crap 5400RPM 2.5in HDD

Disk drive is usually usable as well! Older consoles (Xbox original and 360, non slim) use PATA and SATA respectively, I believe.

[Ostwind]

I was just wondering if this was possible. Not saying I'm gonna make a Frankenstein machine or anything 

 

By parts I mean the GPU and CPU. 

It uses an APU so the CPU/GPU is one single unit. In theory yes but you can't because the APU is soldered to the motherboard in the console.

[Muffinmaddness]

you can take them all out and put them in a modded pc case,... but no, usually its just the hdd you can use on an actual pc 

[TheRandomness]

Aren't consoles using APUs? And the only thing useful to come out of any dying/rather old computer are the HDDs and SSDs

[EpicGeekonFire]

By looking at this image. It seems that the APU is soldered onto the motherboard along with the other components. 

Even if you take it off(Possible) the only place worth putting the chip would be in another xBox one. 

 

This is just an xBox one though.

[werto165]

From my understanding they are all custom made, that way they're cheaper, it's cheaper to have something that's fully assembled than something that's modular and can take parts out. PS3 is a no no with the cell architecture. xbox one maybe because it's going to be running windows 10 but drivers will be non existent and interfacing with the hardware would be near impossible.

[Muffinmaddness]

Disk drive is usually usable as well! Older consoles (Xbox original and 360, non slim) use PATA and SATA respectively, I believe.

 

you cant with xbox 360 its not a standard connector for power if i remember, xbox original i think you can but you have to alter the firmware, i could be wrong its along time since i opened up either of those consoles oh the good old days of installing xbmc  

[8uhbbhu8]

By looking at this image. It seems that the APU is soldered onto the motherboard along with the other components. 

Even if you take it off(Possible) the only place worth putting the chip would be in another xBox one. 

 

This is just an xBox one though.

Whats going to be interesting about that RAM is how they will incorporate HBM in the "next gen"

[werto165]

you cant with xbox 360 its not a standard connector for power if i remember, xbox original i think you can but you have to alter the firmware, i could be wrong its along time since i opened up either of those consoles oh the good old days of installing xbmc  

do you mean the enclosure that had a propitiatory connector? It was just adapted from SATA to that weird connector. 

 

Oh you said power,  Its hard to tell whether it works, I guess I could try it tomorrow I have an old 20GB one that's pretty much worthless anyway. 

[Muffinmaddness]

do you mean the enclosure that had a propitiatory connector? It was just adapted from SATA to that weird connector. 

oh! yes sorry dude,  memory is not what it used to be  

 

oh wait i meant the optical drives, unless that was the same too

[werto165]

oh! yes sorry dude,  memory is not what it used to be  

 

oh wait i meant the optical drives, unless that was the same too

No need to be sorry  

I have no idea about the optical drives it must have been at least 5 or 6 years since I've taken an x360 apart.... 

[GoldSrc]

you cant with xbox 360 its not a standard connector for power if i remember, xbox original i think you can but you have to alter the firmware, i could be wrong its along time since i opened up either of those consoles oh the good old days of installing xbmc  

Both the original Xbox and the 360 disc drive have proprietary power connector.

The thing about the firmware was on the hard drive in the original xbox and on the dvd drive on the xbox 360.

The original xbox being the one where the EEPROM had to be the same as the motherboard, otherwise you couldn't use another xbox's hard drive.

The 360 had that, but in the dvd drive if I recall correctly, so you couldn't just use a normal dvd drive on it, which sucks because my 360's dvd drive has problems to read some games.

[Muffinmaddness]

Both the original Xbox and the 360 disc drive have proprietary power connector.

The thing about the firmware was on the hard drive in the original xbox and on the dvd drive on the xbox 360.

The original xbox being the one where the EEPROM had to be the same as the motherboard, otherwise you couldn't use another xbox's hard drive.

The 360 had that, but in the dvd drive if I recall correctly, so you couldn't just use a normal dvd drive on it, which sucks because my 360's dvd drive has problems to read some games.

Arh yes that was it my bad seems so long ago now

[Thomas CG]

They mostly have cheap proprietary hardware. Compatibilty would be an issue if you were able to remove components other than the harddrive.

[FelixM]

you can't just pry out the apu and put it in an AMD socket ... thats the main problem in my opinion

connection ports/pins on the apu won't comply with the connection arrangement in the socket i guess.

not 100% sure though

correct me if I am wrong