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Xbox 360 Hardware Disassembled and Analyzed
Hack Jandy writes "Here is the first article I've seen about the Xbox 360 hardware internals. The article details everything from the storage devices to the CPU and GPU core."
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The article should point here.
Correct link : here
Try here: http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=26 10
But isn't this old news? I know I've read about all of this AT LEAST a month ago...
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Real Link..
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=26 10
http://www.anandtech.com.nyud.net:8090/printarticl e.aspx?i=2610
The site seems to be weakening (the images aren't loading)
and networkmirror & mirrordot have yet to get working link up
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Linky: http://www.anandtech.com.nyud.net:8090/systems/sho wdoc.aspx?i=2610
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Mirror of the first page for people who can't access port 8090. Additional pages not guaranteed as Mirrordot doesn't work that way.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
No kidding. I realize they wanted to make the console smaller, since people griped about the size of the original-- but this is like making my car smaller by putting the back seat and the trunk in a trailer I have to pull around all the time.
Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360
Date: Nov 16, 2005
Type: System
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi, Kristopher Kubicki & Tuan Nguyen
Page 1
Microsoft's first try at a gaming console amounted to essentially a very affordable PC. It used standard PC components, including a mobile Intel processor (a hybrid Pentium 3/Celeron), a desktop NVIDIA chipset, a Western Digital hard drive and relatively standard PC DVD-ROM. The original Xbox was such a PC in fact that there were quite a few users that wanted to mod it simply to have a cheap PC, not even for gaming - including ourselves.
Before the Xbox was launched, Microsoft was very concerned with users thinking of the Xbox as nothing more than a PC branded as a gaming console, so it went to great lengths to reduce the association. For example, the strict ban on keyboard and mouse support, despite the fact that the console implemented the standard USB interface.
With the Xbox 360, Microsoft gained some benefits of the original Xbox success. Xbox didn't win the sales battle against Sony's PlayStation 2, but the first Xbox was strong enough to cement Microsoft's name in the world of console gaming manufacturers. For their second time around, there is less worry of the Xbox 360 being viewed as a just a PC, so Microsoft took a bolder approach.
Honestly, with the Xbox 360, Microsoft could have put forth another PC in a black box and it probably would have done fine. But with their second gaming console, the target was growth -- and Sony. With an established name and fanbase, it was time to take the market seriously and start to exert some dominance and thus the Xbox went from being a clunky black box of a PC, to a stylish consumer electronics device.
The Xbox 360 is smaller than the original Xbox, and its wireless nature makes it a natural fit in the living room - marking a thankful change from standard gaming consoles of the past. Despite looking like the offspring of an iPod and a DVD player, the Xbox 360 is still very much a PC on the inside. As such, it's got all of the components we're used to.
With less than a week to go before the retail availability of Xbox 360 consoles, we got our hands on one to give it the usual AnandTech once-over. And take it apart of course.
What's in the Box?
Our Xbox 360 system was the $399 unit, which comes with the following:
- Xbox 360 console
- 20GB Removable Hard Drive
- Wireless Controller
- Headset
- DVD Remote
- Ethernet Cable
- Component AV Cables
- External Power Supply
The $299 core system gives you the same console (with a white DVD tray cover), a wired controller, and standard composite AV cables; there's no hard drive, headset or remote.
By now you have undoubtedly heard about the massive external power supply that comes with the Xbox 360 and you can see it in the lower left hand corner of the picture above. Remember that in the original Xbox, the power supply was internal. But with the power requirements of the Xbox 360 being significantly higher than its predecessor, while featuring a noticeably smaller case, the only solution was to take the power supply out of the Xbox 360.
Page 2
What's in the Box, in the Box? (Taking it Apart)
Microsoft has shown the world that it's very swift when it comes to recovering from errors that it has made. With the original Xbox design, Microsoft was definitely testing new ground and thus had little experience when it came to protecting its intellectual property and hardware. The original Xbox was largely easy to open by most people with the most common of tools and was quickly adopted by the modding community as the ultimate "utility" console.
In an attempt to circumvent those with modified Xboxes, Microsoft added security and authentication features to its Xbox Live service that would detect whether an Xbox was in its original form or not. But the mod community did not sit idle and not long after, mod chips were introduced that were able to switch on and of
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I understand that life's not fair, just why is it never unfair in my favor?
1up has an in-depth review of the new Live setup http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3145585&did=1 along with a video of two guys talking about the thing. Not exactly like stripping her naked and poking around inside the box, but it is informative (the article, the video is pretty light weight).
Platform advocacy is like choosing a favorite severely developmentally disabled child.
It was a Celeron core with 256k of cache (the garden variety Celeron only had 128k, and the P3 had 512k) kinda in between the Celery & the P3
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire.
I was making a point: There's no "Coral Cache FAQ" to read, because there's no Coral Cache. The Coral CDN would work much better if the multitudes of us that cannot use nyud.net links knew there was a FAQ with a solution in it. I didn't know what the heck it was until I made a much more determined effort.
That's trolling?
Hi guys, i posted this on the last xbox story but just in case you missed it: 'I've just posted my vlog of the glasgow visit of the UK xbox360 tour: http://www.davesapien.com/vlog/xbox360hour.html [davesapien.com] Its abit tenghty but its my first vlog. If your in the UK the tour is still running; here are the dates; 18th-20th November The Light Leeds 25th-28th November Mercer Street Studios WC2 London' Thanks. Dave.
As this person states, the xbox 360 will be able to handle the devices. Whether the games can hande it (or the system recognize them for game use) is a different story.
I have to admit, this thing seems pretty cool. I've been a PS2 guy since they came out, but the geekability of this system might change things.
Not quite
It was a Celeron with 128KB of L2, on a 133Mhz FSB (retail Celerons at the time were on a 66Mhz FSB, the 133Mhz bus being reserved for P3's)
Coppermine P3's had 256KB of L2