Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360
by Anand Lal Shimpi, Kristopher Kubicki & Tuan Nguyen on November 16, 2005 5:09 AM EST- Posted in
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The Wireless Controllers
Microsoft implemented a proprietary 2.4GHz RF protocol for use with wireless controllers and the Xbox 360. The $399 Xbox 360 comes with a single wireless controller, while the $299 core system features a wired controller; regardless of what it comes with, all Xbox 360 units feature support for up to four wireless controllers.
Amazingly enough, even loaded with a battery pack, the wireless Xbox 360 controllers are lighter than the smaller Xbox S controllers. The new controllers are extremely well designed and mark a true evolution from the original gargantuan Xbox controllers that debuted 4 years ago.
The RF transmitter and receiver antennae are located at the front of the Xbox 360, behind the power button:
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Questar - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
" We roughly estimated the power of the Xbox 360 GPU to be similar to that of a 24-pipeline ATI R420 GPU."What do you base this on?
Snuffles - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
From the article:The reason for this can be found on Bizarre's Forums:
http://www.bizarreonline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t...">Link
This essentially means that all later games which are built from ground up to include tiling, will feature free AA and a native 720p resolution. PGR3 had to go this route, because of lack of time with the final devkit and time restraints in order to make launch.
Questar - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
" We roughly estimated the power of the Xbox 360 GPU to be similar to that of a 24-pipeline ATI R420 GPU."What do you base this on?
Questar - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
" We roughly estimated the power of the Xbox 360 GPU to be similar to that of a 24-pipeline ATI R420 GPU."What do you base this on?
nourdmrolNMT1 - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
these screws are NOT torx screws. these are Hex Heads.you aint gunna be using a torx driver to remove them. there is a difference, and the T7, T8 are what comfirm this. Torx have 5 points, these have 6, and are deffinately completely different from torx as they are much harder to strip out.
no, its Dice as proven above.
bldckstark - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
From wikipedia.com search for torx -->A hex head is usually referred to as an Allen bolt or the infamous Allen wrench.
And as I posted earlier, from dictionary.com, the definition of dice is as follows --> A small cube marked on each side with from one to six dots, usually used in pairs in gambling and in various other games.
The item referred to in this in plural form is dies.
Ruark - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
"You can now lift up the motherboard out of the metal chassis."Less awkward, "You can now lift the motherboard out of the metal chassis."
"Three star bit screw drivers in the following sizes: T6, T7 and T12"
Is a three star ranked a little lower than a four star? ;) At first glance, I thought this was certainly a secure method of attachment if a screw driver with a three pointed star tip was needed. Torx, torx, torx!
"After two corners have been lifted, the rest of the clamp springs loose and can easily be removed by hand."
As these are not the small cubes used for gaming, the plural should be dies.
Ruark - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
"Using your start bit screw drivers, remove the silver screws. . ."PhoneZ - Thursday, November 17, 2005 - link
"..START bit screwdriver.."? Or is that supposed to be star? Since we feel the need to correct people.Live - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - link
So how do we overclock it?