The Xbox One X's inner workings, revealed

The long-awaited reveal of "Project Scorpio," now known to be the Xbox One X, finally arrived at Microsoft's E3 prebrief. Let's take a peek inside.

Here's the "exploded" view of the new console. 

Microsoft says the Xbox One X is its smallest console ever by overall volume, and it is -- barely. But its external aesthetic remains in line with previous iterations of the console.

Here's the internal power supply for the Xbox One X, which means you won't have a giant brick on the power cord, like all previous Xbox consoles, save for the 2016 Xbox One S.

Here's the IR blaster, which can control your TV and cable box.

This is the heart of the new Xbox One X -- the Scorpio System on Chip (or SOC). That's eight central processing unit (CPU) cores clocked at 2.3 GHz with a six-teraflop graphics processing unit (GPU). Put simply, the Xbox One X has some impressive horsepower driving it.

The Xbox One X will also see a big memory upgrade over the previous Xbox. It's rocking 12GB of DDR5 RAM with bandwidth clocking in at 326GB/sec. 

The Xbox One X includes all the familiar ports, including Ethernet, S/PDIF, HDMI in and out and three USB connectors, too.

The Xbox One X will include a liquid-based Vapor Chamber cooling system, which is a first for consoles. That should make for a quieter and cooler system.

On the back of that cooling system is a copper heatsink to connect to the motherboard.

The block includes an indentation for the Scorpio chip.

The fan will work with the cooling system to dissipate the heat the Xbox One X creates while running.

The Xbox One X will also include a 4K UHD Blu-Ray drive, which Sony doesn't have in the PS4 or PS4 Pro.

All that silicon goodness is wrapped in a hard shell to keep the system safe.

The Xbox One X will be backward-compatible with the Xbox One and One S. Every game you can play on earlier Xbox One consoles -- including backward-compatible 360 and (eventually) OG Xbox titles -- should work here, too.

All these pieces will fit together to create the most muscular Xbox to date.

The Xbox One X hits stores in the US on November 7 for $500.