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"Its a thirsty b#####d"

Just in case any of you out there are still paying for your electricity using a electricity meter which is coin operated you'll perhaps not be glad to know that the xbox power consumption is almost 100 watts. The dc in comparision is 12-18 watts and the ps2 is in theory upto 50 watts but won't use anywhere near that unless you insert a hard drive in the back. So the xbox is taking upto 8x as much juice as the dreamcast and probably about 4 times as much as the ps2 (unless you add the hard drive). In fact it probably consumes more power than your tv. A first for a console I believe.

Bandit wrote:
> do'es all this jargon really matter,let me simplify all this.....IT'S
> THE BEST PURE GAMING CONSOLE IN THE WORLD,IF YOU HAV'ENT GOT ONE GO
> GET ONE NOW,IF YOU DON'T YOU WILL FOREVER REGRET IT.

XBOX FOREVER and thats a fact and we have 3 PC's and three laptops and still growing
Ria

Typical Newbie Talk...

do'es all this jargon really matter,let me simplify all this.....IT'S THE BEST PURE GAMING CONSOLE IN THE WORLD,IF YOU HAV'ENT GOT ONE GO GET ONE NOW,IF YOU DON'T YOU WILL FOREVER REGRET IT.

Stupid Xbox...


...I still want one, though!

>
> Its a Pentium 3 733mhz

Yeah but its been cut down. Instead of the 512k or 256k of cache that normal Pentium 3's have its only got 128k like the celeron. So its a sort of hybrid between pentium 3 and celeron. Cutting down the cache actually helps the cpu run more reliabily and aids cooling but obviously has a nasty knock on effect with regards performance.

sPiKeCaSt wrote:
> Gar-J wrote:
> Bonzo Banana wrote:
> Well the only thing it has in addition to a normal console is the
> hard
> drive. Its not really the hard drive at fault though its the fact
> the
> pentium 3 and nvidia chipsets are very power hungry components.
>
> Isn't it actually running on a Celeron 733-based chip?
>
>
> Its a Pentium 3 733mhz

Well its a Pentium 3/Celeron. Its got things the P3 has but it doesnt have everything, so really its a hybrid of the P3 and celeron.

Gar-J wrote:
> Bonzo Banana wrote:
> Well the only thing it has in addition to a normal console is the
> hard
> drive. Its not really the hard drive at fault though its the fact
> the
> pentium 3 and nvidia chipsets are very power hungry components.
>
> Isn't it actually running on a Celeron 733-based chip?


Its a Pentium 3 733mhz

I have 4 because i started off with a 486-66Mhz ( oh those were the days :) )

And then its just due to upgrading and building my own computers:

P1 233
Pentium 3 500
AMD 1.2Ghz Geforce 3

Oh and a little 100Mhz Laptop.

Bonzo Banana wrote:
> Well the only thing it has in addition to a normal console is the hard
> drive. Its not really the hard drive at fault though its the fact the
> pentium 3 and nvidia chipsets are very power hungry components.

Isn't it actually running on a Celeron 733-based chip?

thirsty because it's the big bad on the market :)

simple.