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May 10th, 2005, 07:47 PM
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Well, I've read today about the new specs of the Xbox 360. They seem rather...unbelievable. In particular, the CPU specs. A custom-designed IBM PowerPC-based CPU sporting 3 symmetrical cores, each running at 3.2 GHz. Hard to believe for you? Everything aside, does it seem logical for any company to release a game system that has more power than even some workstations? To me...no. I dunno... 3.2 GHz seems like quite a bit. Even the Pentium 4 is around that area now for most desktops. I can't use IBM's search engine...but I have never heard about a tri-core CPU...from anyone. POWER6 Family or something? I didn't even now tri-core existed; I thought dual core was the highest they have gotten...and that was just released too. So...what do you think about it all? I think it seems odd that anyone would release a gaming platform more powerful than most desktop. What do you think?
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May 10th, 2005, 08:27 PM
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hmm i don't know... what are your sources?
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May 11th, 2005, 06:12 AM
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it seems to me like they're doing what sony did 4 years ago with the ps2 - offerring a front room, set top box that does most things well... but not one thing really well... plus it looks like they got a new pad, when the old pad is currently perfection, IMO
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May 11th, 2005, 06:19 AM
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just read the spec. sounds like figures pulled out of the air to sound good. think about it - ibm are having a hard enough time gettin PPC to 3ghz, and intel/amd are not much far ahead with the x86. plus they're only just starting to dabble with dual cores, although quad cores have been mentioned. it doesn't seem feasable, or cheap in any way, for that type of proccessing power in time for christams. especially not in a sub-$500 machine
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#7
May 11th, 2005, 08:09 AM
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You forget that the Xbox doesn't need to have all the features of a personal computer. It could be a simplified version of the PPC 970 chip. Who knows? It is possible. All consoles are sold at a loss. Console manufacturers hope to make it up by game sales. |
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