Lets Upgrade An Original Xbox CPU to 1.4GHz!

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In this video, Shawn goes through upgrading an Original Xbox CPU using one of the new interposers and alignment tools that were recently released! As always, links to everything are down below.
Franks Interposer:
github.com/zzattack/xbox-cpu-...
Kekule's Interposer:
github.com/Kekule-OXC/Xbox-CP...
N64's Interposer:
github.com/N64-Freak/Xbox-CPU...
Voltage Mod Tutorial by Ace:
github.com/ACE-AU/OGX-PIII-CP...
Heatsink Bracket 3D FIles by Ace:
github.com/ACE-AU/OG-PIII-CPU...
Other Origial Xbox 3D Printed Files by Ace:
github.com/ACE-AU
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[@siddharthapadhy]

I don't even own the original xbox. Why the heck m watching this @3:30 am

[@BrstOfficial]

Same bro but I'm watching at 3:20 am 😂

[@bhoot1702]

Cuz you maybe a nerd like others

[@Techbabblers]

Time to get an OG Xbox :P

[@bryancoolguy188]

3:50 AM here, help me🫠

[@LaPrezzzzion]

Bro that's scary literally the video that pops up to me at 3:30 am 😭💀

[@dearestdennis]

Came by this video randomly, would’ve liked to have seen a before and after performance wise, or a side by side to show the differences / benefits of upgrading the CPU

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

yeah, me too on both counts. I don't know why one would want to do this. Wouldn't it possibly break some games that are expecting a certain speed? Or would it just make frame rates smoother? I have to think also that the video chipset might play a part in limiting the effectiveness of a processor upgrade, too. From what I understand it's basically a GeForce 3.

[@LaserDisc-Rarities]

You could head over to: *Modern Vintage Gamer* And search his videos for: *The Most Powerful Original Xbox - FriendTech DreamX 1480 - Teardown, Games, Emulators and More*

[@R4dm1n]

Emulators benefit greatly from the CPU upgrade. As well as some games which are possibly CPU limited.

[@AwesomeGames56]

There are quite a few videos showing the benefits of this upgrade.

[@samohraje2433]

You can run pretty much everything smoother on upgraded cpu because of emulators benefits from the faster cpu better. And speaking of emulators, with tons of other mods you can play most of the games at 720p and some even at 900p or 1080p if you really push this old monster that far. This CPU upgrade does not give you a better fps ( just a little bit ) but it gives you a whole new graphics experience because of the faster CPU so you can crank the details way up than befor

[@nyllie6239]

man youtube needs to recommend me more of this, just a beat up old console, soldering station in the background and something hacky going on. thanks it was a really enjoyable video!

[@kungfujesus06]

Too bad a socket probably wouldn't have enough strain relief without some through hole mounts. Seems like if you're going to raise the profile, anyway, why not add a socket?

[@ProfessorShroom]

Yeah I was thinking why solder the CPU if you have to solder the socket? Might as well make it a proper PGA socket

[@Melechtna]

Given that the profile would only be raised maybe something like a single millimeter, if that, I really don't see why not just add a socket.

[@baalaagaa]

Exactly, this is a super clunky way of doing a CPU swap.

[@techrev9999]

Honestly, in so many ways, you could say this of so many BGA reflows. Some don't have the clearance, but the ones that do - socket the world. Ofc, I say that, but don't put it into practice much - though yeah, I really need to when I start doing this kind of stuff again, for myself. It's such hot, nasty, sticky work - you just don't want to have to do it again, lol. Though, I'm sure some enjoy it.

[@Techbabblers]

A few have tried reflowing a socket recently but it seems just as difficult as this method, maybe one day someone will figure out properly flowing the socket onto the interposer without it melting or misaligning, but right now this is the only way.

[@rob.-_-.]

I have one of these made by N64Freak in Germany years back. It has the extra ram also. I have a Joshua Lineberry loaded 2TB drive on it. It's been sitting for some time but that thing is awesome! Mine has a switch to drop the processor speed so some games won't go stupid fast.

[@ModzvilleUSA]

Incredible work and presentation man, Great stuff!

[@Techbabblers]

Much appreciated!

[@jamesthreats5800]

Very much enjoyed .Thanks for the vid .BTW the music was chill AF.

[@Techbabblers]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@frankrazenberg9262]

Biggest difference is full open source design of course, instead of just gerbers :P

[@keksi360]

i love this content. but i have a question. can you tell me which microscop you are using ? im getting old and cant see all the pads anymore :D

[@Techbabblers]

Sure thing, mine is quite old as of now too, but its this: www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832861917558.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.25.48d918024lavaN&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt You could probably get one cheaper with less accessories and such, I just didn't have anything prior to this one

[@Eagerstriker]

Little idea: tape the interposer down in case you bump it before you add those extra resistors to hold it in place. If its Kapton tape, you can leave it there for the rest of the 1st interposer process, otherwise remove it after the resistors are in place.

[@Mr_Milenko]

I’d love to get one of these done, how much does it cost?

[@TheModShopCO]

Nice work Shawn!

[@Techbabblers]

Thanks!

[@gamebriz4163]

I never knew you could upgrade the processer...nice 👍

[@jeff15]

Fantastic job. !!! ❤😊 keep up the amazing work. 👏

[@Aston996]

Hi there could you please make an audio check I need to increase my device volume. Thanks

[@Jase.1982]

All I could keep looking at was what seemed to be a puffed up capacitor

[@ulasht1]

yeah there's not getting around Replacing the Capacitors in an Original Xbox even if they're not Puffed you're heavily advised to replace them do to their penchant for leaking and damaging the board.

[@Levent_Ergun]

@@ulasht1nice punctuation.

[@Techbabblers]

Hahaha, I replace all caps after the rework, just didn't have that in the video!

When I look at your skills. For some time I have been watching several students from the technical university in Brno in the Czech Republic on KZbin. One of the points of their study was the complete design of their own simple computer as well as programming of their own firmware in the C language. And just once I was talking about KiCad. That it is a good alternative to the licensed Autodesk Eagle, which has some unresolved bugs for a long time. I sure enjoyed watching your video 👍

[@PKmuffdiver]

Benchmarks? I totally need to see before and after.

[@piratelechuck1911]

This upgrade is pretty old school. Performance with Linux is pretty good, but improvement for game performance is negligible at best. It actually increases instability with games. There was also a 128mb memory upgrade we would do that would give some games minor improvement, but nothing to write home about. It was originally called Dream-X.

[@Techbabblers]

Pretty much what @piratelechuck1911 mentioned, it helps with running emulators or homebrew, but for most games, they will be broken and you'll have to patch them to have htem run properly

[@gamecuber6]

you basically turned that PGA processor into a BGA one lol either way great video i must say and also great job! btw i got the 100th like on this one video

[@Jackson-bh1jw]

i always complained this about the cpu overheat of the ps3 and they told me it will cost a fortune, there you see a guy doing it now.

[@videogamevlogs3765]

18 minute video. (Doesn't show gameplay.)😑

[@zombie8u213]

Real happy to see these type of videos. Original Xbox is my all time favorite. Mine was hacked, could hack others. Had cables sticking out the side. Colored lights everywhere. Usb ports I had to install. I called it frankenbox. Loved loved loved it

[@cyrparlapiano2514]

Wish you ended the video with some improved game performance due to the new chip is it better?

[@mightychad3796]

can you show the difference in games? do they run weirdly quicker or have they actually a higher fps?

[@sylveskyl]

What would you charge to do this I have a halo green one I’d like to have it done to

[@PaTRiCK100500]

Hi! Do you know which processors are generally suitable for such an upgrade? I wanted to install Tualatin 1.4 GHz, but in my country they are now too expensive. But Tualatin 1.4/256/100 is very cheap (like 1-2 bucks). I saw how they installed a 1 GHz processor, the boost was rather weak, but it was there. True, what kind of processor it was was not specified. Maybe somewhere there is information or a table on compatibility with the CPU? Thanks in advance and sorry for bad English

[@Techbabblers]

Any Socket 370 Pentium 3 with 133Mhz FSB will work

[@cricketol]

any idea if there is a GPU upgrade from the box GPU to the geforce3 ti500? and replacing the v ram with faster chips and also doubling the VRAM size?

[@XantheFIN]

Too fast buddy. You dont know basic things like what you refer as "vram" is on this just ram which were shared with gpu and cpu same time

[@R4dm1n]

GPU upgrades might be near impossible on this system due to how memory works. Basically any console you run into will use a "shared memory between CPU and GPU" scenario. Also the "VRAM size" you're referring to is the system's memory.

[@SargentoDuke]

The xbox gpu is better than a Geforce3 Ti 🤦‍♂its a GF4 ti4400 Xbox is a NFORCE integrated GPU actually... and the NV2A is a Geforce4 you dont need any better, just overclock it, the XBOX gpu overclocked at 275mhz is stable and its a good boost, the bottleneck is not the GPU is the crap 733mhz cpu, the box was designed for 1ghz one but lntel scammed MS the other cpu was a 1ghz amd.

[@Andr0-Zero]

FINALLY the RIGHT Xbox.... 🤪Great job dude!

[@computerbooter1566]

good job Shawn

[@sagesys]

Why didnt you desolder the pins before reflowing?

[@sandmanxo]

One of my regrets from my old job was not getting the matched 1.4ghz P3 cpus I had in an old server. I think it started life as a P3-500 and then to dual 1ghz, and finally to dual 1.4ghz towards the end of it's life to stretch out another year.

[@ProfessorShroom]

Why not make it a proper PGA socket rather than soldering the CPU?

[@Natsumidragneelkim]

That's what I was thinking 🤔

[@christiangomez2496]

Clearance might've been an issue. (Just eyeballing it)

[@JohnnyWednesday]

Because you would still have to solder the socket - and there's no other CPU you can install.

[@vincentpremel4817]

Maybe sockets aren't no more available ?

[@benperkins2929]

@@JohnnyWednesday Yeah but it'd be cooler

[@freefall2003]

Is it firmware lock on how much ram can be on the board?

[@exoticspeedefy7916]

Is it possible to upgrade GPU? Probably make no difference since games are coded to hardware spec..

[@andre-le-bone-aparte]

Question: what does this upgrade allow that wasn't possible previously?

[@Techbabblers]

More FPS on homebrew and emulators. Makes native games kinda wonky, you have to patch them or else some run super fast or some just break all together.

[@jakeplayzyt5220]

@@Techbabblers”super fast”? What? How would upgrading the processor make it worse? What do you mean “super fast” wouldn’t that be a good thing for better fps? Why would you wanna patch that.

[@RGD-Repairs]

What exactly is the purpose for this? Does a stock Xbox even utilize any of the extra CPU performance? or is it just for modded xbox's, and certain games that can take advantage of it?

[@8bitnation419]

Besides emulation and homebrew, not much to be honest, you can't turn up the settings, framerate and the graphics of the games like on a PC. And it won't even run games without patches. The Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.4 is overkill for the Xbox, better to just put it into a Socket 370 build with something like a Geforce FX card. A 1ghz P3 or Celeron is plenty good for the OG Xbox. But it still is a very impressive mod. BGA mods of any kind involve some serious dedication.

[@Ironclad17]

The 2 layers of interposers is something I wouldn't have thought of. I wonder if the 2nd interposer could be replaced with a pga socket.

[@Anthony-gc7el]

Does the new CPU need a heat sink and fan? Or is the fan in the console at 40% + able to take care of it once the disc drive and hard drive are back in the console? If anyone knows where I can find someone to install this here in England please let me know.

[@Techbabblers]

You have to cut a cap in the HDD tray and use a 3D printed filler piece glued in the top since the heatsink is now sitting higher than the OG CPU. You can also cut down a few MM from each fin on the heatsink, which would acheive the same result. From testing, running fans ~50% after a game is about 55C on the CPU.

[@drenev6998]

3 things people can watch forever watching waves hit the beach fire burn and someone work. I love this

[@GoTeamScotch]

Nice work!

[@Techbabblers]

Thanks!

[@breaKdownINC]

The linked heatsink bracket doesn't seem to be for franks interposer.

[@Techbabblers]

here you go: github.com/ACE-AU/OG-Xbox-CPU-GPU-Heatsink-brackets-for-Franks-Interposer

[@breaKdownINC]

@@Techbabblers thank you!

[@bilobolygregsmith270]

So do I understand this correctly, you swapped out the processor for a different processor?! Is the architecture so similar that you could do that?

[@dwgray9000]

Yes. The original xbox used a pentium 3 cpu, a nvdia nforce chipset and the equivalent of a gforce 2 gpu.

[@rodzandz]

No benchmark results? What's the point?

[@pukalo]

5:20 looks like the tall capacitor closest to the camera is bulging and needs to be replaced.

[@AgentLazarus]

That is literally nothing.

[@GGigabiteM]

@@AgentLazarus It is literally failed and needs to be replaced. You can see it is also pushing up off the board from the rubber plug in the bottom being forced out. Capacitors don't have an allowance for creating internal pressure and continuing to operate within original design specs. If they show signs of internal pressure build up, they need to be replaced, no matter how slight.

[@AgentLazarus]

@@GGigabiteM The capacitor is fine. Tune down your autism.

[@AgentLazarus]

@@GGigabiteM the only thing failed here is your brain. Severely crippled and you're factually wrong.

[@greenmoose_]

is that the one he says he's going to replace towards the end of the video? or one of the other tall capacitors he also says he's going to replace?

[@razvanburada1648]

Great community ❤

[@AgentLazarus]

When are you going to do game benchmarks on this thing

[@MichaelM28]

Nice joke. Xbots are the worst

[@dixiedoctor2563]

One of the black capacitors appears to be defective, it looks like the encapsulation is swollen.

[@goclunker]

agree. I see it too. Top is starting to bulge

[@Sam_Miller]

What's the point of the tool? You cut that completely out with no explanation. I figured it's to put solder on the motherboard pads

[@huntermulzoff6299]

I have one of these and everything needed to do the upgrade! I have been trying to find someone who could help me do this, is it possible you could do it for a fee?

[@FR4M3Sharma]

Man I wanted to see the full video, what type of brackets and shrouds you used and all. Also I can't believe I've had that exact processor with me since I was like 5, used to play Midtown Madness in that system that had it before dad scrapped it and I got my very first XBox in 2020. :| Also don't break more consoles now.

[@Techbabblers]

I try my best not to!

[@Josh.Davidson]

Dang i gotta do mine sometime

[@SylpheedW]

Why do you use background music? Isn't the singing of the old harddrives in the background enough? 😄

[@Techbabblers]

hahaha!

[@3ofSpades]

So how does it game? You gonna crank this puppy or just let it sit there?

[@DSC4]

so is the cpu like the bottleneck ? how does this work with the GPU now ? dont you need a gpu upgrade too or does OCing the trick ???

[@proudofyourroots9575]

In standard resolution games, not really. The main use case is running games in hd resolutions, or emulators and video playback capabilities. The xbox is easily softmodded with a hacked save, then you can upgrade the hard drive and fill it with emulators for stuff up to n64, and fill it with SD movies also. The cpu is a 733mhz celeron. Its the most powerful cpu of the consoles in that generation and the only x86 one (ps2 and gamecube and DC were mips/powerpc/risc). This meant once the console was hacked, making homebrew for it was easy as x86 was the standard.Unlike risc/powerpc. Microsoft enabled the console to run games to run at hd resolutions if the devs chose. So a decent chunk of devs enabled 720p or 1080i in their games if you have the hd component cables and either an ntsc console, or a softmodded/chipped pal one However, this of course requires more precessing power , rendering at higher resolutions. So you can get slowdown /lower fps when doing so. When you upgrade the cpu to either 1ghz or 1.4ghz version , you can get fan patches for the games that enable them to take advantage of the extra cpu speed, reducing slowdown to some extent. It all depends on how the game is coded tbh. Some games are more gpu limited s, some cpu limited. At hd most are cpu limited to some degree though. The other area people upgrade is the ram. The xbox has the pads on the board for an extra 64mb of ram on top of the standard 64mb. I beleive this originates from the dev kits being 128mb, so they just made one model of board and added the extra ram for devkits. Again, patches exist to take advantage of it. Emulators and homebrew games running on xbox massively beenfit from the extra cpu speed and extra ram, as expected. (but tbh these days, its questionable if you should be using such a set up for emulation, its convenient but not exactly accurate and perfect emulation. but its full speed in most stuff up to 16bit. some psx stuff works ok ish, most psx stuff has some issues though. N64 works actuallty pretty great as there was a coding competition and the guys that finished 1st and 2nd combined their efforts to create an awesome n64 emulator for the hardware that utitlises a paging file system on the hardrive to overcome the ram size limits) The various homebrew ports to the system perform far better with upgraded cpu and ram, such as Killer Instinct Arcade, Quake 1 and 2, etc. And lastly movie playback, the ogxbox homebrew scene is where the Kodi software and Plex originated. XBMC as it was originally called. Xbox media center. People would load up their xbox with tons of movie files files and have a media center xbox. Was common. But again, the standard hardware strrggles to run stuff in HD. You can just about get 720p in certain codecs at very low bitrates to run good enough to be watchable for animated stuff, only dorpping the odd frame. SD stuff works fine. To get better performance in movie fiie playback, you need the extra cpu speed . Then you can run better bitrate 720p stuff. Stil not that high though and again, no one really uses xbox that way anymore. Mostly people fill them with ogxbox games and emulators for the older systems and leave it at that. We have netflix and android sticks and smart tvs and consoles and obviously pcs that do movie playback far better these days. Although, if you have it connected to a crt, it can stil be useful as an sd movie media center. There was actually one company that sold these cpu and ram upgraded xboxes when xboxs were stil lat retail, pre modded as a new system. Friendtech xboxs.

[@PubEnemy]

A test would be nice before and after the upgrade to see of it's even worth it

[@aceconsolerepairs]

Did you fix it Shawny??

[@TakeaNapHoller]

What BGA rework station you using ?

[@Techbabblers]

ACHI IR PRO SC

[@razvanburada1648]

This console will never die ❤❤❤

[@MichaelM28]

PS2 killed it over 20 years ago 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Wierie_]

im pretty sure mine died at this point, don't have the cables to test it. i should open it lol

[@zk0rned]

@@MichaelM28 Cringe

[@MichaelM28]

@@zk0rned Cry

[@zk0rned]

@@MichaelM28 I'm not the one that's console warring for a nearly 30 year old device LOL

[@ogdan1173]

Do you can unlock bootloader to install any OS?

[@Mr_Milenko]

The OS is a compressed kernel, you can run an Xbox kernel, or a Linux bootloader. The dashboards and menus/programs etc are all Xbox apps. They designed it to where a lot of what we’d consider OS centric libraries are embedded in the application itself.

[@lidenmds113]

no hay ningun video de funciomamiento,

[@gregorybolin4672]

How does that not cook the cpu

[@RickyReyesJ3sus]

Would of been nice to see you play a game with the new cpu and do a side by side comparison

[@Techbabblers]

Well without using something like a Stellar, most games by default either run super fast or straight up break. The 1.4Ghz upgrade is more beneficial to things like homebrew and media playback

[@Scaler9000]

Such an awesome machine

[@dusty_reaper96]

Would love to see performance uplift it gives to game's like hl2 doom 3 or halo 2

[@EirikrTinkerTries]

Are VRAM upgrades possible? For those of us with bad hands, do you offer the ability for us to mail our Xboxes to you to pay for this upgrade?! Would love a max RAM upgrade as well as an SSD or 2TB HDD upgrade… That would give me the ability to dual-boot a Linux flavor… or NetBSD/OpenBSD

[@nstabl]

Best 3am video. Thanks!!

[@wesleyoliveira126]

Good job ❤❤❤❤

[@InternationalLiaison]

what would it take to install a 2.5 ghz core 2 duo?

[@Techbabblers]

Would have to create a whole interposer and even then it probably wouldn't work since it isn't in the same family as the OG CPU.

[@InternationalLiaison]

@@Techbabblers the lithography of the first generation of core 2 duo was just basically a 2 core pentium 3. Do you know if the CMOS/BIOS on the OG xbox is locked to the family name lithography or does that CMOs/BIOS recognizeable by input/output instruction, versus family lithography

[@Dorantes23]

60% of the video is out of focus "I lost the footage of the cpu" and in the end not a single one game footage....this is the perfect example of how not to do a video 😢

[@JO3Haribo]

Ahhh the OG French hack 👍 lets see how updated 👀

[@WeencieRants]

All i have to say is, I've never owned an xbox in my entire life and I watched the whole video.

[@Nobody0152]

You could have soldered a socket 370 instead, that way you can remove the CPU if necessary

[@Techbabblers]

Wish it wasthat easy :-(

[@tunkunrunk]

I have a bunch of pentium III 1.4ghz stored in a box , I have no motherboards to use them , maube I should sell them on Ebay

[@Techbabblers]

You could make a good amount per CPU for sure

[@dunk79jmf]

Wow the fan at the end sounds like my PS4 pro

[@Techbabblers]

Yeah, gotta crank them up on the OGX!

[@rachaelknight8048]

why i dont get it

[@1050franco]

Amazing work , i wanna see that xbox run Half Life 2 🤔

[@El.Duder-ino]

Would be very cool if consoles CPUs/SoCs would be modular and upgradeable😁

[@billyjackswildamerica6326]

What cpu should i be looking to buy for this mod.

[@JorgeCarvalho_web_dev]

P3 Celeron@1300 I think, not tualatin 1.4

[@Techbabblers]

Any one of these: SL5XL 1400Mhz 512Kb SL6BY 1400Mhz 512Kb SL5VX 1333Mhz 256Kb SL6BZ 1333Mhz 256Kb SL5LW 1266Mhz 512Kb SL5VX 1200Mhz 256Kb

[@billyjackswildamerica6326]

Thanks that's good info, I appreciate it.

[@teemodeak]

E possível aumentar a memória ram?

[@garagegaming625]

There's a mod that quite literaly stacks 2 chips together, and that ends up doubling the original amount of RAM, so yes, there is, and it is quite simple too.

[@nickysimi9866]

Honestly this would be sick, idk if it would break certain games but i wanna test it for myself. Was playing operation flashpoint elite, and while i like the game, it definitely wasnt meant for consoles (let alone 6th gen consoles) but somehow had better models than the pc version lol

[@cpopte]

Take "basically" out from your head. Great job !

[@backup_jack6921]

there a way to upgrade the gpu?

[@xdradt8463]

Sadly not but you can overclock it

[@McLeonVP]

and? what does this to performance in games?

[@Nny_V]

this mod was intended for modded xboxes running emulators more then anything back then. though it does decrease load times in a few games, and games with abit of lag like most of the need for speed games and half life 2. really isn't necessary anymore as even cheap android tv boxes can run most emulators flawlessly..

[@SargentoDuke]

With that mod you can run all games at good framerate on 720p, or 720p video at good framerate too... without cpu upgrade you can but very low fps, imagine playing KOTOR or Half-Life2 at 720p, yes original xbox just need a better CPU to be a 720p capable console.

[@McLeonVP]

@@SargentoDuke lool

[@SargentoDuke]

@@McLeonVP original Xbox can run some games at 720p with no problem just with 128mb ram... but with 1.4ghz Cpu you can run all... Morrowind or Kotor on 720p looks better than on XBOX 360... but framerate drops to 5fps on open maps and are unplayable, you need at least 1ghz cpu to move 720p games and VIDEO/youtube on the original xbox... and 1.4ghz to move them perfectly! Remember 1.4ghz pentium 3 ecuals to a 2.8ghz pentium 4 (or a 1.4ghz Core2solo, as Core technology was defeloped from Mobile Pentium 3 tualatins). I had the interposer and a 1.4ghz cpu but i had not the skill to do it so the 1ghz pentium 3 direct-soldered is the only i can had. But playing original Xbox games at native 720p is AWESOME

[@McLeonVP]

@@SargentoDuke 128mb ram? the ps3 only haves 512 and the ps2 64mb i think

[@liminalex64]

At 7:49 is it me, or is there a bulging capacitor?

[@frost-4083]

Ya he mentioned it in the video and says he's gonna replace it

[@Techbabblers]

All the caps were replaced at the end!

[@SinnerX69]

Have you thought about overclocking the CPU a little bit? Most SL6BY CPUs will do 1660 MHz, if you are very lucky you could get even up to 1750 MHz (without higher Vcore). Or perhaps XBOX can't handle high FSB clocks?

[@Techbabblers]

I didn't try but I have heard that it's possible!

[@chriskrebs3178]

LMAO that hard drive whine though 😂

[@jjohnson71958]

try a cpu socket mod that might work great

[@CaelThunderwing]

i was about to comment why didnt they install a Socket into the interposer adapter.

[@jjohnson71958]

@@CaelThunderwing a socket mod would b cool

[@SeGey512]

nice! now run HL2 on this it will be interesting

[@RedgeEric]

GN mat nice

[@alejandroalzatesanchez]

i got the most intrusive thought of seeing a xbox with a xeon cpu or something overkill like that.

[@randomsaloom7238]

if only this was feasible for the ps2

[@AgentLazarus]

There is a way to overclock the PlayStation 2 but not this high of course

[@ThetaxDeltax]

that look scary as... Some peaple may not be able to pull that off. We think it's done with a machine. Id just play it as is. Maybe just emulate it. You seem to got it working. COngrats. Enjoy.

[@ghostmopreal]

I’ve been sitting on an SL6BY for years hoping someone would get to an easier method… finally

[@ghostmopreal]

Do you do these as a service at all? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@UserX-02]

How

[@Lurch-Bot]

Watching this, I wondered how many games break on the XBox with a CPU running at double the speed. I also wonder if you can fully take advantage of the higher speed, given the proprietary nature of the XBox. It isn't the same as upgrading a PIII PC. Just the fact you have to use an interposer suggests that the system could be bandwidth limited. Have you actually verified the CPU is really running at 1400MHz? It would be really neat if you could somehow directly measure IPC and compare with a PC because clockspeed doesn't mean much if there are inherent limitations in the platform slowing it down. Not sure what the point is here, really. It is no longer original hardware so you might as well just play on an emulator if you want higher framerates. a modchip to bypass region locks is one thing, this is another.

[@Techbabblers]

Yeah so with the 1400MHz CPU, the games will basically run twice as fast, some won't even run at all. You can either patch each game to run at retail or use Project Stellar which does the patching on the fly so games can run properly.

[@wololo10]

P3 Tualatin were the goats

[@BAMFSpYdy]

Does it mean I'm a geek when I say "I love this stuff!?"

[@8bitnation419]

Amazing work, but the Tualatin is utilised better in Socket 370 Motherboard running Windows 98SE and XP. Unless there is software and patches to take advantage of the Tualatin, your not going to get much out of it besides better emulation and slightly more stable framerates. It would also be nice to get it to run discs without patches, not sure if there is a way. But i think a 1ghz P3 would be plenty good for the Og Xbox. It's not overkill and will provide the exact same benefits except with a less power hungry CPU.

[@SargentoDuke]

There is a program to patch the games for the new CPU speed, and obviously the Xbox can handle tualating, xbox kernel is almost windowsXP based... or better to say, win XP had the modifications created on the Xbox kernel

[@chip1gray]

Bench testing ?

[@Techbabblers]

I test using the Halo games with console fully assembled. One hour on, one hour off, for a few days to ensure no freezing and stuff. Only had one console thus far that would freeze after the first few cutscenes in Halo 2, which required the voltage to be dropped a bit which resolved the issue.

[@JeysonRamos]

Do you ask the same question??? WTF the cooler ?? The size changed!!!

[@JanoschNr1]

Never knew the Xbox was loud AF

[@Techbabblers]

It's not AS loud, but you have to crank up fan speeds for the new CPU.

[@IvanOoze1990]

More ram now?

[@Techbabblers]

I also did the ram, which as of right now only goes up to 128MB.