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TechTV Cracks Open The Xbox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aaaiiiieeee dept.

Kevin writes: "TechTV has posted some pictures of the inside of the Xbox ... Interesting stuff, I believe Patrick Norton from The Screen Savers is working on overclocking it." Warning: doing this might reduce your eBay resale value.

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  1. Can't wait to see a beowulf cluster of those... by Juju · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Imagine, not only it is cheap, but it will cost Microsoft money!!!
    Consoles are sold with a loss, and the money is made from selling the software.

    It has got a harddisk (10Gb), a not so bad CPU (PIII 733), 64Mb of Memory , network ports and is built with commodity PC hardware...
    So taking the X-Box, finding an easy way to format and re-install Linux + beowulf software and you get a cheap way to build clusters.

    With it's GeForce 2 and good soundcard, you could even make it a decent PC (a bit short on memory though).

    --
    Black holes occur when God divides by zero.
  2. Apparently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    MS is selling the XBox as a loss leader, like iopener and sony's ps/2. So that might be an opportunity for Linux users to recover their Microsoft Tax: Buy an XBox, install linux on it to turn it into an xterminal subsidized by uncle bill

  3. Re:So, uh by DWARFx10 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your Kidding, that sucks