Faster xbox with 1.4GHz processor!
- Thread starter rabidrabbit
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rabidrabbit said:EhJabjabs said:wouldn't it would be more practical to just buy two xboxes :?
Yeah, but then you'd have to buy an all new house to fit BOTH Xboxes!
DISCover looks better. Won't play xbox games. But hey... they're coming to the PC world also (at least most of them?).
I rather like this line:
DISCover's patented technology makes it the only video game console able to play PC games
You mean... because it's a PC?
A PC without networking even. So pretty much a crippled PC?
DISCover's patented technology makes it the only video game console able to play PC games
You mean... because it's a PC?
A PC without networking even. So pretty much a crippled PC?
Little more info on the Xbox mod from the Inq: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11748
A FIRM on the show floor here in Taipei is offering the chance to buy an Xbox that uses a Celeron 1.4GHz/256K cache chip rather than the feeble 733MHz Pentium III that ships with the console.
Friendtech is also offering a mod for the Xbox which provides S-Video and A/V output, 5.1 surround sound and a hard disk upgrade.
The package it sells includes the console, a gamepad, an S-Video AV cable, a bag, a power cable and manuals. The chip inside this machine can be switched from a so called ?standard speed? of 740MHz to a ?turbo? speed of 1480MHz.
The company claims that its mod of the Xbox doesn?t affect people who buy its FT-XBX2. It says it buys its machines from Microsoft or through authorized resellers, and that allows it to change the specs of the console. The mods cause it to lose its warranty rights, but provides its own 90 day warranty on the machine.
But in its product literature it says because the FT-XBX2 can read DVDs and MP3s from all regions it provides a ?Media Key? with the machine which means users must agree not to use it for illegal purposes. That includes copying games and pirated movies. µ
A FIRM on the show floor here in Taipei is offering the chance to buy an Xbox that uses a Celeron 1.4GHz/256K cache chip rather than the feeble 733MHz Pentium III that ships with the console.
Friendtech is also offering a mod for the Xbox which provides S-Video and A/V output, 5.1 surround sound and a hard disk upgrade.
The package it sells includes the console, a gamepad, an S-Video AV cable, a bag, a power cable and manuals. The chip inside this machine can be switched from a so called ?standard speed? of 740MHz to a ?turbo? speed of 1480MHz.
The company claims that its mod of the Xbox doesn?t affect people who buy its FT-XBX2. It says it buys its machines from Microsoft or through authorized resellers, and that allows it to change the specs of the console. The mods cause it to lose its warranty rights, but provides its own 90 day warranty on the machine.
But in its product literature it says because the FT-XBX2 can read DVDs and MP3s from all regions it provides a ?Media Key? with the machine which means users must agree not to use it for illegal purposes. That includes copying games and pirated movies. µ
cthellis42 said:
Good point, and pointless especially how cheap PC's are getting, I got my son a system from Ibuypower for $389 that has the current best motherboard in it, the only weak part was the video card, which he swapped out with his birthday money, and now he is just in love with the machine. PC's attract a different type of gamer, and they are not going to win console gamers to these games by putting them on a console.. The thing with PC is that it offers much more than just gaming. My oldest boy is into making maps on halflife, though not very good at it, he gets a lot of joy out of making his own little worlds and just walking around in them afterwards.. there is just something to that , that I feel will always make PC stand ot in a class of its own.. both the PC and the Console world are great, but they stand apart for various reasons, I and I feel they always will(and always should)
archie4oz said:
That's because it's not...
well, being the Xbox GPU is more GF3 than 4 I guess that could be true..
but I hope you know, the GF4 TI4600 outperformed the FX Ultra 5900 on Direct X 9 benchmarks.
the FX series is brilliant, a DirectX 9 card that cant handle DirectX 9
LisaJoy said:
Excepting that they cannot really do so much with, uh... the whole "DX9" bit, since the GF4 series can't handle it.
If you want to consider the GF4's "best shader performance" versus the FX's "best shader performance" in some games, then that indeed can end up being the case. (Which is still with the not good.) Heh...
Well considering that the 5900ultra gets beaten by the 9600pro in halflife 2 benchmarks and the 9600pro uses dx 9 and the 5900ultra uses a mix mode (dx9 and dx 8.1) I would say the card is slow esp since sometimes the geforce 4600 beats the fx in mix mode . Not very fast for a 500$ card huh .cthellis42 said:
jvd said:
No question, jvd, I just can't let all comparisons like that rest when they ain't quite in the right. Heh... GF4 has been around and coded for for a while, and doesn't even do DX8.1, so it's pretty damn good at doing what IT does right now.