The ones listed in our build were chosen for how cheap they were at the time of publication. In fact, you can use any reputable 500W power supply (the minimum for this build), ATX case, and Blu-Ray drive. The final pieces of this build are straightforward. The Xbox One X hard drive, as shown at Microsoft’s Xbox showcase at E3 2017. Some AM3+ boards don’t, so if you go with this FX-8300 build, keep that in mind. It’s as cheap, if not cheaper than a 5,400rpm drive, and it’ll run at SATA III/6Gbps assuming your motherboard supports it. With that mystery still unresolved, I stand by my original decision to pick a 7,200rpm for simplicity’s sake. (My GPU choice does have one catch, which I’ve noted in the Build Summary below.) In our build is the eight-core 3.3GHz AMD FX-8300, 8GB of DDR3/1600 RAM, and an 8GB Radeon RX 580.
AMD doesn’t have an equivalent APU available for DIY builds, so I chose to walk the line between the Xbox One X’s specs and recommended specs for a smooth PC gaming experience.
Our PC has more flexibility and muscle, while the Xbox One X is both highly compact and set in stone.įor the Xbox One X’s CPU, GPU, and memory, Microsoft chose a custom AMD APU that features eight 2.3GHz custom x86 cores, 40 Radeon compute units running at 1,172MHz, and 12GB of GDDR5 memory. When comparing our build to the Xbox One X piece by piece, each platform’s advantages are clear.
The latest update includes our benchmarks of the Xbox One X PC we built live on November 2nd. There are also other options such as turning your mic on and bandwidth information that you can access by moving your mouse and selecting the screens.Editor’s note (): This article was originally published on June 16, 2017. Alternatively, you can use your mouse and click a button to do that. Once you’re done playing, you must press Esc to stop streaming. Now you can pick a game to play on your PC.Click “Stream” to show the Xbox One’s home screen.Launch the Xbox One Companion app on your PC.Without it, you won’t be able to stream the games to your PC. If you haven’t launched the Xbox One Companion app yet, make sure you do that. Once you’ve done all of the above, you’re ready to play games. You typically won’t use this method, but if nothing else works, it just might let you connect your PC to your Xbox One.
You will find your console name in “Console Info.”Īnother way to connect both devices is to use the Xbox’s IP address.Go to “Profile & System” which is represented by your icon.
If you’re having trouble finding your console’s name, here’s how to find it.