The black tower is designed to push air out of the top, and as long as that route stays clear the Series X is a quiet console. When it clogs, the margin disappears quickly.
Inside is serious cooling: iFixit documents a copper vapor chamber feeding the fins, with the fan drawing air in through the bottom. The square 144-hole grille on top is the exit — and where everything in the room collects.
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Servicing a Series X is not a generic «paste change», because there are two thermal materials. The official iFixit guide calls for thermal paste on the APU and thermal putty on the memory chips. Two different products, two different ways of applying them.
The heatsink does not unclip. It is held by a screwed tension bracket on the APU, and the guide insists on one point: the screws must be loosened and tightened a few turns at a time, in an X pattern. The guide also warns that the board may be bonded to the heatsink assembly.
Outside the thermal compartment the console is generous. The power supply is internal and replaceable as a module, with its own guide and part. The HDMI port, by contrast, is soldered, and both iFixit and Microsoft's own service documentation treat it as board-level rework.
Servicing recommended every 18–24 months, sooner if the fan is always at full tilt. No manufacturer publishes an interval — this is our workshop's recommendation.
| Release year | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 151 × 151 × 301 mm |
| Weight | about 4.45 kg |
| Cooling | copper vapor chamber + bottom-intake fan |
| Thermal interface | thermal paste on the APU, thermal putty on memory |
| Heatsink fixing | screwed tension bracket, X-pattern torque |
| Top grille | square 12 × 12 hole matrix |
| Disc drive | horizontal slot low on the front |
| Video | HDMI port soldered to the board |
| Power supply | internal, replaceable module |
| Base | circular, integrated, not removable |
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