Tomshardware Reviews the Xbox
Posted by NTUsEr on 05 February 2002 - 13:14 · 4 comments & 103 views
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#1 Posted by chromogenX on 05 Feb 2002 - 22:47
- very good review...I may consider buying one of these
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#2 Posted by nekrosoft13 on 06 Feb 2002 - 03:58
- very good review very long review!!!
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#3 Posted by superfula on 07 Feb 2002 - 20:19
- a very crappy review. He makes the xbox look better than it is. 1) it is a computer that is close to 2 years old 2)only uptodate part is the video card, which we have now in the ti500 3)the processor is a 733 mhz celeron, not a coppermine. this is a very common fact 4)its only as good as a 733mhz computer with a ti500 card in it Look at the Gamecube and PS2. They are made specially for playing games. From the processor, to the video card, etc. The numbers in the ps2 may not be as big as the numbers in the xbox, but they definately are not lacking. Toms hardware made the xbox out to be the dominating maching, which it isn't
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#4 Posted by superfula on 07 Feb 2002 - 20:28
- Man...just check out the forum at tomshardware. They tear the review apart
The obstacles are considerable: the manufacturer has to provide a device that is affordable, appeals to a vast audience and is positioned at the forefront of computer technology.
Nevertheless, even if all of these conditions are met, the battle has not yet been won, not by a long shot. In the final analysis, technology is of little interest to the user. Actually, it is the games available for a particular kind of console that will determine consumers' decisions and, ultimately, the device's success!
Super-Net has overcome these problems by implementing Nortel's Quality of Service on Ethernet switching.
QoS allocates priorities to some streams of data so critical applications get higher priority during periods of network congestion. To test the difference in performance, CeNTIE loaded Super-Net lightly at 9Gbps -- roughly the same as Sydney's phone system traffic at peak-hour.
Then, without using QoS, it put the last 1Gbps in, so the network was totally congested.
"First the video freezes, the haptics disappear, then the remote end starts wobbling and jerking and you're wondering what the hell's happening," Dr Economou said.
"Then we increase the QoS for the video stream and after about 10 seconds the video resyncs and bang, you've got video. But the haptics link is still broken so we increase the priority on the haptics traffic and bang, it's working again.
"The critical applications have a high priority so they're getting through no matter what."
The 10Gbps Ethernet will become very important in the next few years.
It's competing head-on with Sonet, the current standard in metropolitan area networks, Dr Economou said.