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May 09, 2005

Xbox 360 Specs

I know this is a little out of scope, but I had to post these anyways. The specs are just out of this world. My computer isn't even close to these speeds. Check it out:

2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline


  • Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360

  • Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *

  • Free Xbox Live weekends *

  • Multiplayer online gameplay

  • Avatar for gamer profile * #

  • Motto for gamer profile * #

  • Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #

  • Offline achievments * #

  • Online achievements *

  • Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *

  • Cumulative gamer score * #

  • Location/language profile * #

  • Reputation *

  • Enahnced matchmaking using above

  • Skill level matchmaking

  • Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)

  • Recent players list *

  • Free and premium download game content *

  • Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *

  • Downloadable demos/trailers *

  • Microtransactions *

  • Custom playlist in every game * #

  • Play music from portable devices * #

  • View images from digital camera * #

  • Strem media from Windows XP * #

  • Interactive screen savers * #

  • Track info for CDs * #

  • Communication with voice, video or text *



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



CPU Game Math Performance

  • 9 billion dots per second



Custom ATI Graphics Processor

  • 500 MNz

  • 10 MB embedded DRAM

  • 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines

  • unified shader architecture



Memory

  • 512 MB GDDR3 RAM

  • 700 MNz DDR



Memory Bandwidth

  • 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth

  • 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM

  • 21.6 GB/s frontside bus



Audio

  • Mulitchannel surround sond output

  • Supports 48khz 16-bit audio

  • 320 independent decompression channels

  • 32 bit processing

  • 256+ audio channels

4 Comments:

  • I pray to God that someone can hack XBOX 360...think of the possibilities.

    By Blogger Matt, at 7:46 PM  

  • No way...it is simply unhackable. Bwahahahahah ;-D

    Serioulsy tho, look how far we are with XBMC...honestly I just dont have any desire for one...but I think every one else should upgrade so I can scoop up the castoffs. :D
    robrob

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:27 PM  

  • Yeah but if they hacked it, just imagine getting a couple, putting linux on them and clustering them. Eventually, somebody like a third party vendor will slip up to where someone can exploit their software.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:25 PM  

  • If you're interested in getting a free XBOX 360, check this article out:

    How to get a free XBOX 360

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:49 AM  

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