5punk

http://www.theregister.com/2005/03/23/xbox_cable/

All I can say is

pffffttttt

Well my one hasn't blown up yet, hopefully it will by the time the Xbox2 comes out so I've got a perfect excuse to buy it.

Also I got 2 replacement power cords from MS, the first one had a US plug which pissed me off but then a few days later I got another with a UK plug. I didn't even tell them they'd sent the wrong one.

Mines's yet to blow up, but then, I haven't used it in yonks.
Well, not much.

Microsoft loses.. again

/Squinty pokes Xbox....

*KABLOOEY*

/Squinty removes power button from eye socket and sues Microsoft for huge amounts of £££....



Squinty

spoodie wrote:Well my one hasn't blown up yet, hopefully it will by the time the Xbox2 comes out so I've got a perfect excuse to buy it.

Have you all seen the specs for the XBox 2 (in the current issue of Edge Magazine)? I can't help but think "Captain, go to ludicrous speed!"

3 x 3ghz processors running parallel!

9 GHZ!!!

I've heard of overkill but that takes the superfast, triple action, motherfucking hardcore ultra piss!

Gonna be buying it mind.

tandino

tandino wrote:

spoodie wrote:Well my one hasn't blown up yet, hopefully it will by the time the Xbox2 comes out so I've got a perfect excuse to buy it.

Have you all seen the specs for the XBox 2 (in the current issue of Edge Magazine)? I can't help but think "Captain, go to ludicrous speed!"

3 x 3ghz processors running parallel!

9 GHZ!!!

I've heard of overkill but that takes the superfast, triple action, motherfucking hardcore ultra piss!

Gonna be buying it mind.

tandino

I've read about the 3 x CPUs, impressive, and that doesn't include the 500MHz GPU!

[geek] Although it looks like they are going for a multicore CPU solution rather than 3 seperate CPUs. By the time Xbox 2 comes out you'll probably see these dual/multicore CPUs available for PCs, its the future dont ya know. Now all we need is an OS/games that use more than one CPU core..... [/geek]

um, 3 3GHz CPUs won't get you 9GHz performance. The actual performance will be determined by how well the developers code their games for multi-threading. With the right code, 3 3GHz CPUs can be an order of magnitude faster than a 9GHz CPU or with the wrong code, an order slower. This is why supercomputers don't need multi-GHz CPUs; they have thousands of say 400MHz ones that run highly optimized code.

as for a 500MHz GPU, that's old news!

I was going to say that 3 x 3 != 9 but I'd used up all my nerd quota in that last post. As you're an uber pirate ninja nerd I guess you can get away with more.

deject wrote:um, 3 3GHz CPUs won't get you 9GHz performance.

Ah but my calculations weren't wrong were they...

I think it'll be more a case of when developers finally master it, it will be teh besterestivalmate.

tandino

I was going to say that 3 x 3 != 9 but I'd used up all my nerd quota in that last post. As you're an uber pirate ninja nerd I guess you can get away with more.

yeah but, 2+2=5

Soloman wrote:

I was going to say that 3 x 3 != 9 but I'd used up all my nerd quota in that last post. As you're an uber pirate ninja nerd I guess you can get away with more.

yeah but, 2+2=5

[Inside joke] And 50+50 is 90 [/Inside Joke]

tandino wrote:

deject wrote:um, 3 3GHz CPUs won't get you 9GHz performance.

Ah but my calculations weren't wrong were they...

I think it'll be more a case of when developers finally master it, it will be teh besterestivalmate.

tandino

your 3 x 3 = 9 is entirely correct, but your application is invalid. the archtectures of the 3 3GHz CPUs would be entirely different from a 9GHz one. This is also why the 1GHz Athlon was shitloads faster than the 1Ghz Pentium III.


Now, it you were in marketing, you calculation would be perfect!

But 3x3ghz processors won't touch the new processor that Sony and Toshiba are developing for the PS3 called The Cell. The PS3 will be officially classed as a super-computer as it will have 3 multi-cored processors. Unlike a 3Ghz P4 HT which has one multi-threaded core the cell will have multiple-multithreaded cores.

There is a rack-mounted workstation with mutliple processors running at 3 terahertz, now thats fast.....................

And it won't be made by Microsoft.

I'll try and find the link I had to the info page about it, they will also be bringing out a desktop version which means that AMD and Intel won't be the only options.

Squinty

SquinteyeMckneecap wrote:I'll try and find the link I had to the info page about it, they will also be bringing out a desktop version which means that AMD and Intel won't be the only options.

The Cell is fundamentally a PowerPC chip. So if it did appear as a desktop version, you'd only be able to run a PowerPC Linux distro or (if Apple decide to run with it) MacOS X on it.

A lot of what I'm hearing is that Cell will be ahhead of it's time, just like the 500MHz Digital chip back in the day when all the x86 chips were at 200MHz. When you ran the native code it kicked ass, but there weren't any programs for it so you had to emulate x86, which was dog slow.


As to your claim of a 3 terahertz CPU, I am highly dubious. I am sure I would have heard off such a beast. The Pentium 4 (which to my knowledge is the CPU with the fastest speeds) is maxing out at under 7GHz (in some extreme overclocking situations). I do not believe that a terahertz speed CPU exists, and I will even go so far as to say that we'd get to asymmetic processing before we reached terahertz, meaning that they will never exist.

And Microsoft doesn't make workstations...

My friends new power cable arrived yesterday, it smells like hot death.

maybe it's a old reused one..