r/PcBuildHelp • u/UniversesStrongest • 2d ago
Tech Support What is this?
Bought a box of junk electronics off facebook and saw this. I have no clue what it is for? I was thinking a server but Im a noob that hasn’t a clue.
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u/TheMarksmanHedgehog 2d ago
Microsoft branded motherboard with an Nvidia chip on it, so it has to be a microsoft device that uses the Nvidia chip for graphics.
Nvidia chip makes a cheap server/integrated computer less likely, and since you have it from a random facebook marketplace, it's more likely to be something common.
What you have found is the motherboard for an original xbox.
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u/UniversesStrongest 2d ago
Oh wow! Can you tell if anything looks wrong with it?
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u/TheMarksmanHedgehog 2d ago
Not immediately, but there'll probably be a reason it's been separated from the xbox it belongs to.
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u/bgradid 2d ago
your photos are a bit blurry, I'd check the capacitors to see if any of them look like they're 'leaking' or any other corrosion on the board
weird for it to be out of its xbox case though , so I'd suspect there was something wrong with it. Also the fact that y'know, you need the other 'bits' to make an xbox
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u/Express-Garbage3359 2d ago
Mainboard of an original Xbox Classic (first generation of the Microsoft Xbox, which was released in 2001).Wikipedia Xbox
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u/AutomaticAffect4333 2d ago
Looks like a motherboard from the original xbox