[geeks] I HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:59:39AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> No.  The chipset of the X-Box is related to the new nvidea chipset (both
> designed by nvidea).  But, one major difference is that the video card
> of the xbox is closer to a Geforce4 (perhaps better, not sure).

i know they didn't put the 2MX in the Xbox, but the *rest* of the mobo is based
on that nVidia chipset yes?

> I half wouldn't mind a machine built around the nvidea motherboard.  The x86
> CPU would suck, but otherwise those are way cool boards.  The memory bandwidth
> is twice what the CPU can use, meaning the the CPU can work at full power,
> while other things can DMA stuff around.  The onboard video is capable of
> using half the memory bandwidth when running flat out.  But, unlike the xbox,
> the video on the nvidea mobos doesn't have programmable shaders (I forget
> whether the xbox has per vertex or per pixel shaders, but either is pretty
> ool).  It just has generic (but fast) T&L.

for my needs, the onboard 2MX would do me just fine.  it's nice to see that i
would be able to put a high clock x86 CPU in a machine that can actually use
all that horsepower.  but do i really need one?  not enough to really go out
and get one i don't think. ;)

-brian
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