Future PowerPC beyond 3.2 ghz?

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Originally Posted by Oscar Castillo

In the words of the words of the Donald Rumsfeld, "It'll be a long hard slog", but I think anyone here would understand that if they were to try.

Agreed.

I had someone install Linux for me, it's a Red hat distro, works well. He did a soft mod though (no actual hardware modifications needed!)

[Oscar Castillo]

Well, well, what do you know. According to the XBox 360 developer video it's also water-cooled. Some nice closeup shots of the system board too.

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Where is this video?

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I think this is what he's talking about
http://www.filerush.com/download.php...XBOX360Vid.wmv

[Oscar Castillo]

That's the one.

[Reality]

In that video they say it has 3 Symmetric cores. In early reports M$ said the 360 would have 6 PowerPC G5 CPU cores. I'm just wondering if someone can clear up a little question of mine. Are these "Symmetric cores" the same thing as the "G5 CPU cores" mention earlier? I'm just trying to understand if M$ wanted at first to have six, then dropped it to three.

[Oscar Castillo]

Originally Posted by Reality

In that video they say it has 3 Semitic cores. In early reports M$ said the 360 would have 6 PowerPC G5 CPU cores. I'm just wondering if someone can clear up a little question of mine. Are these "Semitic cores" the same thing as the "G5 CPU cores" mention earlier? I'm just trying to understand if M$ wanted at first to have six, then dropped it to three.

It's 3 Symmetric cores. 2 hardware threads per core. 2X3=6.

[Reality]

A little confusing but I think I understand it. In other news I was watching the video through one more time and noticed something in 360 prototype line.


It's like a ugly Powermac or something. It's the crone and handles I think that just make it look like one to me.