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Friday, July 3, 2009

How the Xbox 360 Works

By Larry Moon

The public's interest in gaming consoles rises and falls with the ability of the company to provide a new gaming experience. However, when you come out with a new and improved product it usually comes with a not so improved price. With prices going up Microsoft was the first to step up and provide a new gaming experience that took on the higher price but sold over 20 million units. They came out with the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 was the pioneer of the seventh generation gaming consoles and provide an unreal gaming experience.

You can hook up a console to any television, standard or high-definition. However, if you want the best gaming experience you need to hook it up to a 1080p resolution television. Either T.V. you hook it up to though, you will be brought into a whole new level of gaming.

You will need a hybrid component/composite cable to make it work with HDTVs which is included in both the Pro and Elite. An HDMI 1.2 cable can also be used which is included only in the Elite edition. It is also good to get a pair of stereo speakers to make the gaming experience more intense.

Once you are done setting it up, this is where you will find some of the most advanced equipment going to work. Before you do anything you need to start your console either on the tower itself or the button provided on the controller. This will bring up the user interface, that you will be able to browse things like pictures, music, video, and other games that you may have downloaded or installed. This will make it so that you are able to do these things without a built in DVD inside the optical drive, or a built in flash memory.

There are a number of things as you can see that the user interface does. One of the other things you can do with the interface is check out anything you might have on a USB storage drive or a Microsoft windows pc.

During gameplay, this is where the Xbox 360 really starts to go to work. The Xbox 360 uses a processor named Xenon which contains three symmetrical cores having a 3.2 GHz clock speed. This ensures that loading times are as quick as possible and frame rates are smooth. These speeds can vary depending on how well the game takes advantage of the processor.

But speed isn't the only thing this console is made up of. The Xbox 360 has the capability of displaying really high-end graphics if the game that you put in, uses it to the fullest extent. Some of the capabilities that this console has are alpha blending, z-buffering, and 4x GSAA.

Older Xbox 360 versions would heat up real fast and cause your game play to be lower, and even the console not to work. However, the new versions of Microsoft's latest console uses a jasper motherboard, which does not suffer near as much from heat problems that the older ones did, leading to the red ring error. If you are careful with your console and keep it in good condition you will have a great running system for a long time. - 18758

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