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It had 9 cores 10 threads at 3.2GHz.

And a Nvidia off the shelf GPU. 

 

$1000 no. $800 yes. 

The Cell processor had six available worker cores(SPEs) for devs to use. The other two were reserved for the OS and for yielding. The PPE core was used for instruction feeding for the SPEs.

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Beautiful collection there mate. I still have my PS2 slim and all my old games but lost all the cables and controllers :(

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PS1 where???

 

PSone where????

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The Cell processor had six available worker cores(SPEs) for devs to use. The other two were reserved for the OS and for yielding. The PPE core was used for instruction feeding for the SPEs.

 

In certain work loads devs were able to get Sony to give them 8 cores. 

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PS1 where???

 

PSone where????

 

I am too young for that. 

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I am too young for that. 

 

Am I that old??

 

I still have my PS1 (first version)... completely working...

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Am I that old??

 

I still have my PS1 (first version)... completely working...

 

Came out 5 years before I was born.

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Came out 5 years before I was born.

 

I feel old...

 

Go find one on ebay... The PS collection is not complete without that PS1...

 

this sound should convince you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ivdML1Xes

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It had 9 cores 10 threads at 3.2GHz.

And a Nvidia off the shelf GPU. 

 

$1000 no. $800 yes. 

 

 

The Cell processor had six available worker cores(SPEs) for devs to use. The other two were reserved for the OS and for yielding. The PPE core was used for instruction feeding for the SPEs.

 

 

In certain work loads devs were able to get Sony to give them 8 cores. 

 

We are close here :P

 

Suppose you could say there were 8 cores (PPE + SPEs), though the SPEs are very different to the PPE or an Intel/AMD CPU core.

 

There were 7 working SPEs, with 6 available to Devs and 1 for the OS environment. The full 8 were never used because the cost of making sure every PS3 had a full working CELL was just too great. Cutting down to 7 working means not perfect chips could be used.

 

AnandTech has a pretty damn detailed work through of the CELL which could be worth looking through.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/1647

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It had 9 cores 10 threads at 3.2GHz.

And a Nvidia off the shelf GPU. 

 

$1000 no. $800 yes.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_launch#Release_data_and_pricing

 

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I still have a fully working ps2(at least I think it still works..LOL!!) and a barely used ps3 fatty collecting dust.  I use the fatty for some netflix use.  The only reason I bought the ps3 in the first place because it was the cheapest and fastest blu-ray of its kind.

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I've got one of these and while I never used it it does give me trouble when using an HDMI connection. It tends to freeze up. I still hear audio from an external source if I have something else connected, so I know it's just the graphics that's freezing up.

 

Gotta repaste this thing. If I ever get around to it.

 

The launch PS3 was a beast. Dat backwards compatibility.

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That's the North American Release model with hardware PS2 emulation instead of software emulation.

They left that out for the European release and with the later PS3 revisions, they completley disabled PS2 emulation. (except for PSN Store-bought games)

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I haven't used it in a while but I remember my Apple TV's Netflix app was pretty good.

 

I particularly liked the "new releases" feature which I couldn't find on my smart tv.

 

Edit: Well wasn't there. More likely.

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The PS3 Netflix player is unrivaled!!!

 

It's much faster than anything else for some reason.  And higher quality. It also buffers much farther. 

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