XBox 360

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

PS3 will still rock the XBox 360. The rumor is that the PS3 has about 7x the processing power of the new XBox. Of course if the predicitons hold, it will come out about a year later as well.
Oh yeah, and that's FAR too ugly to be Apple.
*looks at iPod and G5*

Xbox 360 has a tri-core processor, each core with about 3GHz of power. That's about 9GHz of power. I highly doubt PS3 will have 63GHz of power.

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

Xbox 360 has a tri-core processor, each core with about 3GHz of power. That's about 9GHz of power. I highly doubt PS3 will have 63GHz of power.

What’s even more interesting is that the tri-core processor is a derivative of the PPC 970 (not the same though), which the G5's have.

In fact Microsoft even gave developers G5s with PPC versions of WinNT to develop the first games for the X-box 360.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

Xbox 360 has a tri-core processor, each core with about 3GHz of power. That's about 9GHz of power. I highly doubt PS3 will have 63GHz of power.

1.) I don't think so. I've heard dual-core, which IBM is developing, but TRI?

2.) The 3ghz PPC procs are still a bit aways away.

3.) Dual-core, or tri core, procs are still 3ghz, not 9ghz.

[Enterprize]

I wouldn't believe all the rumors you hear. Besides, multiple cores != multiple processors...

As for the PS3 having 7x the processing power of the new Xbox, I would highly doubt it...that much of a power difference in the same generation would be incredible...

[Mike]

Almost every single source out there is saying that Xbox 360 will use 3 64 bit processors, all multi-core based on IBM's 64 Bit POWER5 architecture. Each 64 bit processor will run at about 3 Ghz, and will share 1MB of L2 cache.

It's expected to have 256MB of RAM, more than plenty for a next-gen system.

The graphics card is gonna be phenomenal. It's being created by ATI, and will not only contain a graphics rendering core but embedded DRAM acting as a buffer that will be big enough to handle a 480i image, and can be 4x over-sampled and double buffered.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000600035065/

[rowe]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

Almost every single source out there is saying that Xbox 360 will use 3 64 bit processors, all multi-core based on IBM's 64 Bit POWER5 architecture.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000600035065/

Based on the article you provided, it sounds like it will be a single processor, but will have 3 cores that together share 1 mb L2 cache. Still, it doesnt sound like THAT bad of a system.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by rowe

Based on the article you provided, it sounds like it will be a single processor, but will have 3 cores that together share 1 mb L2 cache. Still, it doesnt sound like THAT bad of a system.

Yeah, theres sooo many contradicting reports (1 processor 3 cores, 3 processors, etc.)

Not sure which to believe, probably 1 processor 3 cores.

[rowe]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

Yeah, theres sooo many contradicting reports (1 processor 3 cores, 3 processors, etc.)

Not sure which to believe, probably 1 processor 3 cores.

It's really hard to know exactly whats up when everything is a rumor, I guess we'll just have to wait til its "officially" revealed. Oh well.

[Daniel Brim]

I suppose that all rumors will be put down at E3. I hope I can go!

Oh yeah, and there is an interesting preview of all three consoles at www.gamespot.com

[KyleGilbert45]

Check out teamxbox.com for the most up to date information on the XBOX 360. They've got quite a few photos, even some from the MTV reveal party, and other information regarding the XBOX 360.

[Kyle Fenton]

Here is a site with technical info on the Xbox 360

http://www.activewin.com/awin/commen...=29527&Group=1

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton

Here is a site with technical info on the Xbox 360

http://www.activewin.com/awin/commen...=29527&Group=1

Originally Posted by Selected Quotes from The Features Leak

- Free and premium download game content * (for Silver and Gold Models)
- (additional fees may apply) * (for Silver and Gold)

360 Hardware:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

Ok, I don't like the downloadable game content, particularly the Premium downloads, this isn't good and its a FACT that the gaming industry is heading that way. Its like paying for ringtones for your cell phone, yeah its cool, buts its usually overpriced and a mark of Greed on the companies selling it.

Anything with "Additional Fees may Apply" is bad

I like all the input devices, and all the formats that the Disc Drive Supports is pretty handy. Also note the HD support, this will be fun Halo 3 in HD! I hope they make the games all compatible with standard TV's too, cause people tend to screw up stuff like that.

3 symmetrical cores?! I'm doubting this, but it looks solid, but I'll need to play it to really give my review.


EIGHT DAYS UNTIL WE FIND OUT FOR REAL

and I just a different set of Specs, http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000600035065/

and a better picture http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000293041091/

[Mike]

I really hope you don't have to buy the hard drive to download stuff from Live, hopefully it'll come with a small hard drive and you can upgrade, or you can download Live stuff onto a memory card. $300 for a new system is a lot, never mind spending $75-$100 extra just so I can play some new Halo maps.

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

I really hope you don't have to buy the hard drive to download stuff from Live, hopefully it'll come with a small hard drive and you can upgrade, or you can download Live stuff onto a memory card. $300 for a new system is a lot, never mind spending $75-$100 extra just so I can play some new Halo maps.

-I believe there is going to be a hard drive, it may be a sub 20 gig hard drive, but its a hard drive, the proposed different models probably will have varying sizes.
-Forget spending 75-100 bucks on new halo maps, they'll do that to our favorite maps like Blood Gulch and Cooagulation, and other greats like that.