A Look at the Xbox 360
Next Spring is promising to be an tantalizing time for gamers, with the release of the new Xbox 360. Officially announced on Mtv, Microsoft unveiled their all new console. With a sleek design, an impressive Cpu, and a slew of many other new features, the Xbox will continue to prove Microsoft’s dominance at the top of the video game console market.
What We Know
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Following the path of the new Nintendo Revolution and the Playstation 3, Xbox had decided to go the route of a new covenant design. Lasting with the ascetics, the new Xbox 360 will come with interchangeable faceplates allowing owners to give their console a practice look. Furthermore the Xbox 360 will have the capability to be mounted both horizontally and vertically.
The look of the new console is fine and dandy, but what is under all that cool seeing plastic? Microsoft has developed an impressive principles capable of remarkable processing power never seen before in a home video game console. As well as new Ibm PowerPc-based Cpu running at 3.2Ghz, and over a half a gigabyte of Ram, the Xbox 360 will showcase a new Ati video card capable of developed antialiasing and shader effects. What this means to gamers is 720p and 1080i wide-screen Hdtv, roughly duplicate the resolution of the former Xbox which maxed out at 480p The principles will also withhold up to four wireless controls..
Arguably Microsoft can attribute a great deal of its success to the hugely flourishing online capabilities. The new Xbox 360 will continue with the online highlight and found it even further. Xbox 360 will offer two tiers of online function, silver and gold. With silver being a basic box for users to associate and play online, and gold offering other services such as additional downloads and content.
Microsoft has also in case,granted additional resources for their new gaming console. The Xbox 360 will have the capability to operate as a normal media centre, with the capability to stream media directory from a Pc running Windows Media Player, as well as other portable devices which are supported by Microsoft.
Below is a full Spec Breakdown of the New Xbox 360
Custom Ibm PowerPc-based Cpu:
· 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 Ghz each
· 2 hardware threads per core 6 hardware threads total
· 1 Vmx-128 vector unit per core 3 total
· 128 Vmx-128 registers per hardware thread
· 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 Ghz each
· 1 Mb L2 cache
Cpu Game Math Performance:
· 9 billion dot product operations per second
Custom Ati Graphics Processor:
· 500 Mhz
· 10 Mb embedded Dram
· 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
· Unified shader architecture
Polygon Performance:
· 500 million triangles per second
Pixel Fill Rate:
· 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X Msaa
Shader Performance:
· 48 billion shader operations per second
Memory:
· 512 Mb Gddr3 Ram
· 700 Mhz Ddr
· Unified memory architecture
Memory Bandwidth:
· 22.4 Gb/s memory interface bus bandwidth
· 256 Gb/s memory bandwidth to Edram
· 21.6 Gb/s front-side bus
Overall principles Floating-Point Performance:
· 1 Tflop
Storage:
· movable and upgradeable 20 Gb hard drive
· 12X dual-layer Dvd-Rom
· Memory unit withhold starting at 64 Mb
I/O:
· withhold for up to 4 wireless game controllers
· 3 Usb 2.0 ports
· 2 memory unit slots
Optimized for Online:
· Instant, out-of-the-box way to Xbox Live features, along with Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
· Built in Ethernet Port
· Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G
· Video Camera Ready
Digital Media Support:
· withhold for Dvd-Video, Dvd-Rom, Dvd-R/Rw, Dvd+R/Rw, Cd-Da, Cd-Rom, Cd-R, Cd-Rw, Wma Cd, Mp3 Cd, Jpeg Photo Cd
· Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows Xp Pcs
· Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
· practice playlists in every game
· Windows Media town Extender built in
· Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers
Hd Game Support:
· All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
· suitable definition and high definition video production supported
System Orientation:
· Stands vertically or horizontally
Customizable Face Plates:
· Interchangeable to personalize the console
Like the new Nintendo Revolution and the Sony Playstation 3, Microsoft has spared no price in developing a principles which will start gamers in to the “next generation” of home video game consoles. With an thinkable, Cpu and Video card, combined with a focus on online multiplayer, the 360 will no doubt be a huge hit for Xbox fans colse to the world. Any way Microsoft has decided to found their principles as an all round media centre, capable of much more than gaming. Is this a wise move? Will the new principles be a huge success like its predecessor, or just an costly media centre? I guess we’ll find out in 2006.
Like the new Nintendo Revolution and the Sony Playstation 3, Microsoft has spared no price in developing a principles which will start gamers in to the “next generation” of home video game consoles. With an thinkable, Cpu and Video card, combined with a focus on online multiplayer, the 360 will no doubt be a huge hit for Xbox fans colse to the world. Any way Microsoft has decided to found their principles as an all round media centre, capable of much more than gaming. Is this a wise move? Will the new principles be a huge success like its predecessor, or just an costly media centre? I guess we’ll find out in 2006.
A Look at the Xbox 360
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