Re: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

[Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Brunno,

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> Incidentally, what GPU does the XBox use? As I understand it, GPU is
> more significant than CPU to games performance. If they use a 
> high-powered GPU, do they not need a fan, and if they do, is the X-Box
> not noisy? If they don't need a high-powered GPU, one again has to
> wonder at the flannel that is put out by the hardware manufacturers
and 
> magazine reviewers about how much better the latest, greatest graphics
> cards are.

It's a variant on the Nvidia Ge-Force 2 I believe

http://www.guru3d.com/tech/xbox/Dsc00009.jpg

> And one other thought. Does the Celeron 733 not need a fan? I thought
> Intel/AMD processors at this speed needed one (they should have used a
> Via or Transmeta). Does this not also introduce another noise source?
> Does the X-Box run near-silent?

This image will explain......

http://www.guru3d.com/tech/xbox/Dsc00006.jpg

Put a big enough heatsink on it and you cool any processor, you just
need
to get the hot air out of the box.

These pages might be of general interest

http://www.guru3d.com/tech/xbox/
http://www.thexboxstop.com/our/hardware.asp


Of course this may all change with the next hardware revision of the
X-Box.


Stuart

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