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XBOX 360 Specs ?Leaked?
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megaman2k
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 		XBOX 360 Specs ?Leaked?
Sorry if this has already been posted, i did look

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Team Xbox posted and removed what are proportedly the specs for the Xbox 360. The post included specific specs, a list of alleged features and a description of two types of Xbox Live. And now, straight from the Gaming-Age forums, the full list:


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 HW:
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


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Exulus
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 		*drools*

Sweet i really hope that is true...

I'm LOVING the idea of free xbox live. Thats exactly what they need to really boost numbers!!

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megaman2k
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 		this is interesting

Play music from portable devices * #
Stream media from Windows XP * #

Those specs basically confirm backwards compatibility to, but im more intrigued with the speak of streaming from Windows.

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Just a quick question, technically the xbox 360 is set to be as powerful and contain hardware, that would cost you what at least $1000 to find in a pc, more $1500 to $2000 in my currency AUD.

Basically as good tech specs (power) as mid to high end pcs... Yet set to cost $250 - $300.

So going on that hypothetical, could we technically say we might expect xbox360 plummit pc prices ?

Even if it doesnt have the whole xp "experience" I still have to wonder... plus the thing is likely to be highly hackable to, not that i promote or endorse such behaviour.

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inio
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 		First off, one thing strikes me as really odd about this: anyone ever heard of 3-way (physical) or 6-way (logical) SMP? I thought SMP only worked well for powers of two.

megaman2k wrote:
Those specs basically confirm backwards compatibility to, but im more intrigued with the speak of streaming from Windows.


In what way do they do that? In terms of processing and architecture emulation, yeah, it looks completely doable (especially if the video hardware can be put into little endian mode for emulating xbox games - that's probably the single biggest possible hardware issue). However, there's one significant piece of hardware reportedly missing that completely prevents backwards compatibility: the black and white buttons on the controllers.

megaman2k wrote:
Just a quick question, technically the xbox 360 is set to be as powerful and contain hardware, that would cost you what at least $1000 to find in a pc.


More than that. Right now you can't get the kind of processing power that this thing has in any desktop (and don't start calling a Quad-Xenon or Quad-Operon a desktop system). In terms of architecture and proccessor, a dual 2.5GHz G5 is probably the closest thing you can buy, with a 20% slower clock and 33% fewer cores, and it starts at $2000.

megaman2k wrote:
Basically as good tech specs (power) as mid to high end pcs... Yet set to cost $250 - $300.


I thought it was $400-$500...

megaman2k wrote:
So going on that hypothetical, could we technically say we might expect xbox360 plummit pc prices ?


Not in the slightest. Did the Xbox do anything to PC prices? Wonder why not?

Look at what goes into a console production line: 20,000,000 of the exact same specially designed part. The RAM? Specially designed. The optical drive? Specially designed. The VPU and CPU? Ooooh yeah you betcha they're specially designed. Even stuff like audio outputs, NICs, and USB tracievers that you would think are so fixed-function that they couldn't re-design them for a console are merged into a single chip to reduce part count. About the only things in an Xbox (and an Xbox360) that are some parts of the optical drive, the hard drive, fan motors, the RJ-45 jack, and the discrete components (resistors, capacitors, etc) soldered onto the various PCBs. The only reason those aren't custom is that they're already commodity goods and are available effectively at maximally efficient cost. Consoles don't share any non-commodoty goods with PCs, so they don't affect their prices.
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 		well the original xbox controller had only two shoulder buttons. supposedly with the new controller, the black and white buttons are gone but are basicly turned into 2 new shoulder buttons. something similar to the playstation controller, 4 shoulder buttons!
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megaman2k
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 		In regards to the price I was going to by a report on IGN

"April 13, 2005 - Industry analysis firm Goldman Sachs expects Microsoft to ship about three million Xbox 360 units by October or November, at a price of $249 to $299, according to a recent article in Forbes.

Goldman Sachs is predicting Microsoft will target a lower-end consumer market with the next Xbox system, thus the prediction of a friendlier price-point (some analysts have previously guessed closer to $500 for the system).
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http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/607/607244p1.html

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And i read this from the specs

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

And took it as clear indication of backwards compatability, though now reading it, it could just mean transfering your existing account.

But yeah i didnt think there was much on the market that met what microsoft sounds like there going to have on offer.

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megaman2k wrote:

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

And took it as clear indication of backwards compatability, though now reading it, it could just mean transfering your existing account.


yeah i would take that as saying your old live account will transfer if you take the gold account, but with the silver you would have to just get a new name and whatnot

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