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X-Box, I know it ain't a PC game but what's the
big deal with this new X-Box 360?
I'm not a real gamer, but from the little bit I've heard this sounds interesting.
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Re: X-Box, I know it ain't a PC game but what's the
It's just a poor man's PC. I get tired of them stating it's so much more powerful than a PC when my one Pentium-M does some 8 commands per cycle and their 3 IBM cheapo processors do a total of 6 commands per cycle. I've got more ram and a better video card too. They've already butchered Quake 4 to consolize it and although a few of the XBox260 games look interesting, I'll wait for a while to even consider buying. It's just too expensive. The price for performance and $60 games do not interest me either. Prices are going up but development time keeps getting shorter thus making poorer games. That and a lot of the games coming out right now are just recycling old ideas. There's very few that stand out as different or polished.
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Re: X-Box, I know it ain't a PC game but what's the
Not everyone has money to be shelling out 100-200 bucks for a graphics card every other month. You cant discount it because it does not measure up to your PC. Thats just asinine. Its all about the software, and the xbox 360 has some great games. Not everyone can afford to beef up their computer or buy a new one to play games like Elder Scrolls Oblivion on PC. Stop being so narrow minded.
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With a PC you don't need to shell out 100-200 bucks every other months for a graphics card. Only if you are a freak.
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Re: X-Box, I know it ain't a PC game but what's the
For an xbox 360 although the hardware is not as powerful, it does not have any "background processes" or anything to interfere with the game, therefore there will be no lag or anything... Halo 2 and Doom 3 which is quite demanding can be played smoothly on an original xbox. (The original xbox only have 64MB of ram)
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Oh man you are so wrong! They are porting games for the Xbox360 to desktops. Let's think about this, if there porting the games from the Xbox360 to desktops then the Xbox is more superior then any desktop out there right now. Heres a link to the specs page.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm
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Re: X-Box, I know it ain't a PC game but what's the
Oh man you are so wrong! They are porting games for the Xbox360 to desktops. Let's think about this, if there porting the games from the Xbox360 to desktops then the Xbox is more superior then any desktop out there right now. Heres a link to the specs page.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm
Wow, so they're using 3 IBM PowerPC cores that process 2 instructions per cycle (total of 6 instructions per cycle) and that's somehow better than a single Pentium-M that does 8 instructions per cycle or an AMD64 X2 that does 16 instructions per cycle?
Oh, and they're using 512mb's of RAM! Oh no, that surely can't compete with a laptop or desktop equipped with 1GB or 2GB's of RAM like my system uses! And don't forget the additional 256MB of video RAM too.
And wow, games on the Xbox260 will run at 720p or 1080i! That's like 1280x720 or 1460x1080! Oh wait, my laptop and desktop operate at 1920x1200. Uh oh, better than the Xbox260 again.
No hard drive for the Xbox260? I've got a 60GB drive and my desktop has a 2x80GB's and 1x30GB. Got ya beat again there too.
And your memory bandwidth is 22.4 GB/s? Mine is 32.2 GB/s! Ouch.
The XBox260 is not the most powerful machine in computing. It does have a lot of power, yes, but it cannot stand up to the leading edge computers of this year and last. Do your homework.
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Re: X-Box, I know it ain't a PC game but what's the
Oh man you are so wrong! They are porting games for the Xbox360 to desktops. Let's think about this, if there porting the games from the Xbox360 to desktops then the Xbox is more superior then any desktop out there right now. Heres a link to the specs page.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm
No, actually it means the opposite. You can port games from a slower machine to a faster one, but never the opposite, since a game designed to run on a fast machine will choke on the slow one. Can a PC emulate a SNES? Yes. Can a SNES emulate a PC? No. So, the fact that they are porting XBox->PC would suggest that the PC is more powerful.
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There is too much hype about the 'power' of the XBox360. People do not take things with more than face value. Sure, it has a tri-core processor, but it is extremely primitive - I saw a test where they put the tri-core in the Xbox up to some regular PC-tasks - they were so slow it was nearly impossible to perform anything, where a regular CPU, such as a Pentium 4 or Athlon 64, does without even thinking about it.
My Pentium M processor will beat out the XBox without breaking a sweat, and my graphics card will too. I can play games at 1680x1050 without any problems - the XBox can only manage 1460x1080? Come on.
Consoles cannot compete with PC's - it's an entirely different arena.
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Re: X-Box, I know it ain't a PC game but what's the
I think as a console it will be pretty awesome, but imho the styling looks kinda dumb! Its design just doesn't make as strong a statement as that of the original xbox or the gamecube!