14 DAY TRIAL // A guy modestly called EpilepsyMLG apparently posted to Reddit an attempt to convince his "diehard console peasant cousin" to play Metal Gear Solid V on a PC, and how else could he manage to pull it off except turning his old Xbox One into a PC!
Did he do it? Well, rows of photographs posted on Imgur stand as proof to the excited PC users on reddit that the ultimate "console peasant" trolling has succeeded and seems to be working almost as intended.
First of all, what EpilepsyMLG did was to make his cousin believe that he's playing on an Xbox One when he was playing on a GTX 970 with 8GB of memory. His cousin is oblivious to the fact that the PC is more powerful than a PlayStation or Xbox.
The reason behind all this ruckus, which in itself is a serious example on how to manhandle PC modules to fit in an Xbox One while not leaving the impression that something has changed, was that his cousin was "rambling how good Metal Gear would look on his potato-station and that it's just a better choice to my Father (his dad being an avid PC user)."
Unmatched skill in trolling your console fan cousin
After countless arguments with his cousin, EpilepsyMLG finally decided that the only way to convince him was to take the bull by the horns and do the ultimate console fan sacrilege, fit a mini-ITX-sized PC inside an Xbox One. And here's what he got.
First of all, he emptied the entire Xbox One of all of its components, made small mockups of cardboard to fit and measure the places for the components. The got a Seasonic ss250-SU 1u server power supply, then cut an older ASRock H61 MV-ITX motherboard to roughly mini-itx dimensions, enough to have one PCIe slot and two DRAM and lined up where the rear-io shield would be.
He then got an i5-3350P @ 3,1Ghz, 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz low profile and a Sapphire Radeon HD7850 with power limit set to -20% (no more GTX 970). To get that graphics card fit on a 90-degree laid-down angle, he placed the card on a PCI-E riser, which made everything nice and compact.
