jjzcp
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I saw that the PS2 clockspeed is at 300MHz. Thats amasing! If I had a 600Mhz computer that could play those type of games, i'd be shocked let alone, a 300MHz computer! I wonder how they do it?
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PS2 at 300Mhz!!!
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alexkerhead
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It is all about the game engine.jjzcp said:I saw that the PS2 clockspeed is at 300MHz. Thats amasing! If I had a 600Mhz computer that could play those type of games, i'd be shocked let alone, a 300MHz computer! I wonder how they do it?
If they wanted too, everquest II could run on a 1Ghz P3 easy.
They just use cumbersome stupid game world engines, then Sony used a very efficient engine.
carlsson
Veteran Member
Also remember that the PlayStation 2 is built with a vector technology quite different from other CPUs, and it took a couple of years before game developers outside Sony had understood it well enough to get the most out of it. Normally clock frequency is a very poor speed measurement when comparing different types of CPUs, and it may be an even worse measurement in this case. FWIW, the first generation XBox had a modified (?) Pentium III at 700+ MHz if I recall correctly.
Vlad
Moderator
The First Xbox had a mobile P III chipd useing the Coppermine Core at 700 MHz.
I don't know if it was modified or not, but it's just a laptop processor soldered to the board.
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I don't know if it was modified or not, but it's just a laptop processor soldered to the board.
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jjzcp
Experienced Member
isn't the coppermine chip a type of celeron? I think i have one in my dell laptop.
Vlad
Moderator
The Coppermine was a Pentium. It was in between the Katmai and Coppermine-T cores. All of which were Pentiums.
Good Info here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III
-Vlad
Good Info here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III
-Vlad
alexkerhead
Veteran Member
Don't forget tualatin...lol
I use 2x 1000MHz Pentium III coppermines in my secondary posting machine.
I use 2x 1000MHz Pentium III coppermines in my secondary posting machine.
USSEnterprise
Experienced Member
Wait, I thought that the PS2 is only a 233MHz processor, and the PSP is 333MHz
jjzcp
Experienced Member
That's what i thought to, until i saw it was at a different clock speed, on some web sites. Mabye the web sites are wrong, or mabye, Sony changed the clockspeed in there second generation PS2, when it basicly got put into a smaller case.
carlsson
Veteran Member
The two versions of PlayStation 2 should be 100% compatible, I believe, maybe with exception to hardware extentions relying on a particular case layout. I remember seeing the figure of about 300 MHz many years ago, when it was new on the market. But as I wrote, it is a different kind of architecture so clock frequency says even less in this case than otherwise.