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Re: New XBox with 3x PPC G5
« on: February 04, 2004, 04:13:20 PM »
I bet you any money that the new XBox will be nothing like what that article said. That just rediculous!

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Re: New XBox with 3x PPC G5
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2004, 04:18:33 PM »
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Two chips for CPU-tasks and a third for other tasks, perhaps?
What other tasks? The only thing I can imagine is that they want to go heavy into the online gaming market and would perhaps want to allow gamers to run a server and play a game simultaneously. This almost makes sense, and then you read the bit about having only 256MB, which is just silly if you're gonna run 3 64bit RISC chips, which by nature will require far more memory then normal 32bit CISC chips. I would think a 1GB would need to be standard for such a setup (and to play a game while running a server).

Next one would need to imagine what kind of power supply this beast would require and how many cooling fans would be needed to prevent it from burning a hole in your carpet. This thing makes no sense as a gaming console. This article is pure nonsense!

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