So PS3 is not selling that much or they want to start a 3 way war with AMD and Intel? and how will nVidia, ATI-AMD and most importantly the creator of DirectX and platform for PC gaming OS Microsoft think about this?
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/artic...169363&site=cvg

lol. do you even understand the article you linked to?

Seems to me like the people who wrote it don't even know what they are talking about, so i can't blame you. lol

This post has been edited by ikanayam: Aug 4 2007, 07:31 PM

Haha...add-in... sort-off like aftermarket turbo for the PC...

I expect the item in the form of PCI-e or External unit with proprietary connectors in a boxful of Cell chip (from lower bin, higher bin goes to PS3) and an RSX graphic chip...

I don't think so it'll be purely graphic-oriented, perhaps FLOPS or even rendering for some 3D kinda task or physics... all in all, if one PC could support more than one of this Cell units, you got a multiple Processor system or put it this way : Garaged-SUPERCOMPUTER... affordable and helluva folding monster.

can't understand what writer tries to told

Don't see how that's possible. So many holes, API, code transportability and few hundred more.

Dunno no engineering part but it is not intended to replace PC.

Before all that, the price itself is almost certainly going to be prohibitive. Should easily cost >1000USD.

It also burns up to 400W of power. Certainly they're not selling this for boosting PC gaming.

This post has been edited by ikanayam: Aug 5 2007, 03:10 AM

We won't know what the freaks are aftering... if this thing works and give helluva gaming performance and 10 folds, then I think Sony-Toshiba is digging their own grave; this will be a self-canibalizing act. They'll kill PS3, partially.

Let just hope that the add-in means more muscle for the PC. But seriously believe that the this Cell concept is what Sony wages on to takeover the microprocessor architecture as the next generation in computing. It works and expensive now. With better use of the failed or less-than-successful die for Cell in this device, they can minimize loss and have ROI faster after dumping in a lot on the R&D and dumping even more so on the price of PS3 to meet the demand of consumer.

Cell versus the Torrenza consumer-grade platform with possible Fusion implementation, guess who wins.

They won't survive the performance then when this gets widespread (if it ever would lol)

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Aug 5 2007, 08:26 PM

first of all, it should be dx10/10.1 compliant

By then already PlayStation4 and dunno what technology they gonna use.

The person who wrote the article is completely mistaken. This thing is not even marketed as anything to do with gaming. It would simply cost too much, and it's not exactly something that would be easily utilized for PC gaming.

Point 1 : You can't just plug in something and all the games go WHOOSHZOMGDAMNITSFASTLIKEBBQSAUCE. No, shit like that just doesn't happen, code for X86 stays on X86, using an acceleration board requires new compilers, code portability, different methods of programming, rescheduling and generally it's just not going to work in the way people here imagined. You're comparing something which just eats instructions and executes like the Cell and with something that reorders them, like X86.

Point 2 : Despite what Sony tries to shove down our throats, no, the PS3 cell cannot save kitty kats from trees or beat the shit out of rapists and evil land barons with tophats. The Cell is NOT a general purpose processor, point made, to take advantage of it, you'll need an API that could interface with it and pass it crap to process, simple logic ya? No, there isn't such an API, unless you count emp23's toaster programming interface for the perfect breakfast an acceptable one, no, no PS3 based accelerator board for you.

Point 3 : Gamers are dumbasses when it comes to computers. Can't believe the shit that comes out of our collective mouths sometimes.

Rant end.