I'm not really into concole gaming anymore, but I am however interested in the hardware and new technology being implemented to power ever evolvoling graphics in games. I figured some at this site will find this an interasting read. As the subect of this topic suggects, The New PlayStation 3 will be packing A very powerfull processor Code Named "Cell" Which might make our current system yesterdays news, and pail in comparison. IBM,Sony,and Toshiba Team up to produce "Cell",Cell's breakthrough multi-core architecture and ultra high-speed communications capabilities deliver vastly improved, real-time response for rich media applications, in many cases 10 times the performance of the latest PC processors. Here are some of the highlights of Cell Tech. "Cell is a breakthrough architectural design -- featuring eight synergistic processors and top clock speeds of greater than 4.3GHz (as measured during initial hardware testing) Cell is a multicore chip capable of massive floating point processing (1 trillion) Cell is "OS neutral" and supports multiple operating systems simultaneously" such as linux, Windows, OS10!! I Would have provided links, howerver there are just too many of them to post here. I hear google is pretty goog...lol. Like more info on vid-card specs and so-force. I am curious to know people thoughts on this subect, hince why i'm posting.

Pretty impressive. I'm a console guy myself, but just Xbox, so I'm hoping that Microsoft comes out with something like that. It could also just be a lot of hype. Just because it is capable of doing all that stuff, doesn't mean that it will in the PS3. I know that Microsoft is also working with IBM for it's new Xbox chip, so, this could get interesting. ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE 2500+ Barton OC to 3200+ 1gig Corsair XMS Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb Antec True Power 430w Dual 40gig WD.

If that's so that may shake up Intel and AMD quite a bit. Especially if that part about OS neutral means you could also put it into a PC!!!!! But one question, how are ou cooling that monster - compressor ????

Cell appears to have an advantage in the number of transistors - 234 million compared with 125 million for today's latest Pentium 4 chips. Traditional chip makers, however, have regularly doubled their number of transistors every 12 to 18 months. Cell is said to run at clock speeds greater than 4 gigahertz, which would top the 3.8 GHz of Intel's current top-speed chip. Cell's designers said they are running a variety of operating systems on the processor at their lab in Austin, Texas. But they would not say whether Microsoft's Windows is one of them. In fact, they only confirmed running Linux, the open source environment. The PC industry has seen a long line of chips attempt to usurp the x86 architecture pioneered by Intel that dominates today's computers. But all have failed, and Intel remains the world's largest chip maker. And IBM Corp. has said it will sell a workstation with the chip starting later this year.

PS3, Xbox 2 and Gamecube 2 will all have the G5 64bit processor chips in them, IBM already released details on what platforms their chips were going to be on a while back. As for the GPU that is a diff story. All 3 consoles will have diff GPU's to them. So far ATI is going to work with Xbox 2 and it is unknown at this point on the other 2 consoles GPU's, but I'm sure E3 will release all the details.

According to some sources, the PS3 will, upon launch run around $300.00~$400.00! As did their predessecors, and eventually lower in price as time goes by. If this is infact true, then that would yeild upgrading custome pc's futile, to a certain extent ofcourse, but nevertheless a joke. Intel is just now making mainstream 64-bit desktop CPU's, which will be implamenting dual core tech, but remember this is still based on the x86 architecture. And like all of intel's new line of processors, this comes with a bank account empting price tag, say $1000.00! In the computer industry, $300.00 is really not a signifigent amount of money. I cant say how this team of techno leaders will only charge so little for such advanced components? There has to be a conflift of supply and demand issues going on here.

"I cant say how this team of techno leaders will only charge so little for such advanced components?" Would you pay $1000 for a PC if it's not upgradable and the only thing you can do with it is for the most part play games?...........just what I thought. B4 you criticize a bigger man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away, and you have his shoes.