it's the moment of truth
[Music]
the ps box it lives there's no doubt
that the ps5
is an impressive console and the mods
have already begun
not only have we done a custom ps5 with
the dbrand dark plates as well as for
some reason we built a switch inside
someone has water cooled the ps5 someone
even built an entire ps5
out of brass you know what no one has
done yet give the playstation what it
really needs
some extra
horsepower you've already seen the title
of this video you know where this is
going
to really do justice to a project like
this i hit up my boy james
who has more than his fair share of
experience in building some of these
crazy crazy projects that straight up
looks like a ps5 pro
or something right i mean it it's super
distinctive as a ps5
but also ridiculously chunky it screams
it has power in it this is mainly just a
concept you're seeing right here off the
fine tuning oh man
let's do it with james on board i'm
feeling a lot better about the project
but the ultimate test is going to be
this can we pull off
the ps5 xbox hybrid
or are we going to spectacularly crash
and burn
now you might be wondering why we're
starting out with the digital edition
well a couple of months ago we decided
to build the ultimate ps5
and as part of that we used this so this
is a side panel from the disc version of
the ps5
which as you can see if you put this
side panel on a digital edition gives
you a lot of extra space
for that video we built in a nintendo
switch inside the ps5
but this time we're going a little bit
bigger by a little bit bigger i mean
a whole lot bigger now you might be
wondering
why are we using an xbox series s the
main reason
is due to the size as well as the heat
the series s while as a very capable
console is nowhere near as bulky and
especially hard to package as the series
x is
and on top of that is going to be much
easier to cool oh
why thank you matt so of course if we're
going to be building the ultimate ps box
we're going to need the ultimate display
for it so huge shout out to asus for
sponsoring this madness and for
providing the ultimate display for the
playstation 5 and the series x
this is the rog strix xg43uq so it does
come with hdmi 2.1 cables which is
important
so unlike most monitors once you get up
to that like 4k
120 hertz you really actually need a
properly certified cable
we also of course have displayport as
well if you're hooking this up to your
pc
and let's be real if you're getting a
nice monitor like this the ideal setup
is really hooking up both your pc and
your console to it
there we go look at that nice padding
that is 43 inches of
gaming power oh wow okay so we have
displayport for hdmis or async as well
as we have a couple of usb ports as well
as audio you see it's an actual nice
anti-glare display as well
all right i gotta get a playstation
built for this
uh okay oh boy
is that some double-sided tape oh 3m
that must mean we're getting fancy now
james did a lot of custom work here
and that yep that looks very custom i'm
just realizing how much is about to be
involved in building this
so we're taking advantage of some of
these screw holes that were already
put in place by our kind friends at sony
oh
wow that's some engineering right there
so immediately
you can start to see where we're going
with this because we're gonna have this
extra sort of
depth imagine series that's living
something like that inside
ah that would be helpful wouldn't it oh
wow look at that
that just goes on like that are you
kidding me you know this kind of reminds
me of like legos except that i suck at
building legos
so it took you so long to build
the easiest set possible uh
oh this is the actual 3d printed base
look it's even got the xbox logo on it
are you kidding me the series s just
drops in like that
look at that so now you can start to see
the bones of our ps box come together
so because we actually have a reasonable
amount of space here
i still think the playstation 5 will
actually get enough air flow and on the
other side
you'll see that the xbox is going to be
able to pull out and sort of exhaust
from this side i don't know exactly how
much cooling you'll really have
but ultimately as long as it works it
runs a little toasty that's fine right a
little toasted never hurt anybody
right
that is what i am talking about so we
have the ethernet
usb hdmi and the figure 8 power cable
and to be fair we only have one usb
so you are giving up a couple of usbs
but like whatever that's totally fine as
long as we can plug some stuff in
that my friends is the real
final piece so what this is going to do
is this is going to line up
something like that and i guess we're
just going to bend it down
we got a little uh a little uh pressure
needed
the main thing we have to be very
careful of is there's a lot of alignment
right so we have now the power button
for the xbox and the ps5
but also the usb ports as well as
there's a little button on the front
which is specifically for the controller
sync there's just a lot of things that
need to be very precisely aligned and
once you start to put it down
you're hearing everything and then you
gotta tear it all back if something's
slightly off
i am in on the top
okay so this should just go on since
this has not really been touched
so the other side panel has been
slightly
modified and by slightly modified i mean
well clearly it's not going to work
exactly the way it did before
so see some very helpful one two three
little stickers
magnets you'll see these are just screws
okay
one two three oh so we're just gonna go
like that
wow okay no wonder these are such strong
magnets that's one
it's two and there's one up here all
right here it goes nothing
very hard oh wait
did i do it is the ps box done have we
successfully built the ps box
look at this look at this inside this
box is not only a playstation 5
there's also an xbox therefore the name
ps box
yeah thanks matt i'm glad someone's
excited about the ps box so let's fire
up our rog strix display
and hope that our ps box comes to life
oh look you can even see oh i didn't
realize this so you've got the blue leds
on the inside but obviously it doesn't
work on the other side but look at that
we immediately
come up on the 43 inch display oh look
at this
look how good that looks oh my god oh
so good so with our ps box fully
assembled now it's time to really put it
to the test
so ken we're not gonna go head to head
we're gonna be a team
we're gonna play some duos we're gonna
show off exactly what
our masterpiece is capable of we did win
when we built the ultimate ps5
i don't know why people are trying to
tell me they were playing against bots
when they were just clearly
upset with our superior uh fortnite
skill
we were playing against spots flossing i
gotta say i've definitely never played
fortnite on uh playstation before
or a ps5 rather it looks really nice
though and of course
i have the superior rog monitor so not
only am i getting that full 4k 120 but i
also
do have especially if you're playing on
the xbox side you do have support for
variable refresh rate and of course if
you're playing on pc
not only do you have that full 4k 144
hertz input
but you also have the ridiculous hdr
brightness we're playing at six percent
brightness right now
this thing at 100 percent can you cover
me i'm gonna turn up to 100
and make everyone's eyes bleed and how
bright this gets i can only cover you if
you go somewhere good there we go
there we go there we go there we go
there we go
that is a thousand nits of brightness
do you see the brightness on my face
right now
you got not only all of the frame rate
and the response time
but you also get the brightness which is
something that you really don't get on
something like an oled as much as i like
using tvs for gaming oh
look how bright that
turns down i turn this down i'm sitting
too close to the monitor for full
brightness so how is your experience on
the series s
um i mean i'm not noticing like
bad performance at all actually like
this is totally fine i mean it it's not
as sharp as your 4k experience over
there
it's definitely looking like a 1080 game
i mean the max potential here is that
i'm able to play
stuff on the xbox side that i obviously
wouldn't have been able to play
otherwise on my ps5 so it is kind of the
best of both worlds i
still say that you know if this was you
know
an ideal console obviously i would like
a series
x but that also opens up a different can
of worms right
i feel like that would be a little more
difficult if you think this is the big
chungus
wait to see if we do a ps5 and series x
combination i don't see any action here
well that's definitely a wall that
someone built
these are these are definitely a
man-made wall oh that's a person
oh got one i have some potion if you
need it uh i'm okay
i have not gotten shot yet feeling
adventurous today oh there's there's
some stuff over here
where is this person oh you there he is
where are you
you got him yeah head shot let's go is
that a dinosaur
it's probably a dinosaur all right i'm
coming i'm coming i'm behind you oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh wait okay he's looking at me he's
looking at me oh god help help help
come down come on come down oh oh
jesus okay now though
oh that's definitely a person yeah
that's a person oh jeez
there we go there we go now i need now i
need some heels
oh oh dudes dude dude there's a butt
there's a thing right behind you right
behind you right behind you what do you
mean
it was not going to attack you until you
attacked me
oh god hey oh oh i'm definitely not
in a good state right now see this is
teamwork right here no
you shot the animals that we didn't need
to shoot literally the reason he's dead
yeah i'm reviving you it's
fine there are six people left so we're
actually in pretty good shape here
i think we're gonna win i think so too
against these spots oh i'm getting shot
oh oh i see him
oh they're gonna get attacked by the
wolves or the dinosaurs the dinosaurs
are assisting there's only two other
people left oh up there oh dude they're
all over the place oh here
wait wait wait there's a dude there's a
dude yeah
got oh yeah we got him teamwork makes
the dream work baby
thank you very much for watching this
episode of building
something questionable out of very
expensive electronics make sure to go
check out the asus rog monitor at the
link in the description
and of course if you would like to
purchase a ps box you can't
because hey hey hey hey hey be nice the
ps box okay
don't take apart the ps box it smells
like fire
yeah like fire good