but consoles are still grood, just not for FPS games, i appreciate my mouse every time i play Halo 2 <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Which is why you buy the Dreamcast ports of Quake III and Unreal Tournament, and then get a mouse and keyboard for DC! :D :D :D
<!--QuoteBegin-twoflow+May 5 2005, 05:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (twoflow @ May 5 2005, 05:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Isn't the new Xbox meant to have a cumulative 9Ghz of processor power? In comparison, that 2Ghz looks a bit rubbish. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> 'Cummulative clock speed' means nothing and is ill defined.
The cell processor for example, it contains 8 very simple processors(vector processors more or less) and 2 cut down g5 like processors. 'Cummulative clocks speed' is about 40 GHz, but that doesn't mean it's going to be much faster than the xbox360. Or if you count clock speed per cell processor they are 'worth' only about 4 GHz.
So which is it? Neither will be a good meassure of performance though.
Even between similar architectures(well, more similar than cell and the xbox anyway), e.g. look at the p4(prescott) and the pentium m, the pentium m often mops the floor with the pentium 4 in games, even though it runs at about half the clock speed.
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but consoles are still grood, just not for FPS games, i appreciate my mouse every time i play Halo 2
but consoles are still grood, just not for FPS games, i appreciate my mouse every time i play Halo 2 <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Which is why you buy the Dreamcast ports of Quake III and Unreal Tournament, and then get a mouse and keyboard for DC! :D :D :D
*sigh*
'Cummulative clock speed' means nothing and is ill defined.
The cell processor for example, it contains 8 very simple processors(vector processors more or less) and 2 cut down g5 like processors. 'Cummulative clocks speed' is about 40 GHz, but that doesn't mean it's going to be much faster than the xbox360. Or if you count clock speed per cell processor they are 'worth' only about 4 GHz.
So which is it? Neither will be a good meassure of performance though.
Even between similar architectures(well, more similar than cell and the xbox anyway), e.g. look at the p4(prescott) and the pentium m, the pentium m often mops the floor with the pentium 4 in games, even though it runs at about half the clock speed.