PS3

[Hotshot]

PS 3 have 3.2GHZ but they have 8 CORE

does that mean they have 3.2GHZ X 8 = 25.6GHZ  WHOFFF

AM I missing somethings cos I am baffed by 8 CORE as I am sure it mean 3.2GHZ per core or have I got mixed up.

cheers

[Yaloopy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_hardware#Central_processing_unit

[nystep]

Yes well, as it says in the wikipedia article, it's more like one CPU and 6 SPE that you can code on. The SPE are a hell to code, because they have only 128k of accessible memory each, for both code and data. You're forced to do DMA transferts from the main RAM by hand to "feed" them, and DMA transferts back to main memory to get the results... So, it's really challenging to get anything out of it... 

Though the linux install and its Cell+framebuffer access could mean... raytracing on ps3 That'd be a real challenge...

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Untill the price drops to 150 USD and I can play some shmups on it I'll pass. I'll just continue using my Wii to play games from the mid 90's. Playing with my Wii behind closed doors is nothing that I like admitting to however.

[Stonemonkey]

Hi all, got myself one of these and going to install linux on it. Has anyone else done this yet? any help would be appreciated.

[Jim]

I formatted my disk to make sure I can put Linux on it at some point, but no, I haven't installed another OS yet.  The homebrew people managed to get the 3d hardware going, but Sony shut that off (intentionally or unintentionally) with firmware 2.10.  If you really want 3d in Linux and you have a lower firmware, then don't upgrade.  But as with the PSP, new games insist on the latest firmware.
www.ps2dev.org have a lot of good information.
Jim

[Stonemonkey]

Thanks Jim, I've not partitioned mine yet and I'm not sure if I'm going to lose everything when I do although there's not anything terribly important it would be a bit of a pain so I'll wait untill I can get an external drive and back it up. My PS3 is fully updated atm.

I've D/Ld yellow dog 5.0 which took 10 or 11 hours, strange things went on, at one point it had downloaded -150% and later it was up to 350% of 3.3Gb and now it's on my HD it says it's 1.1Gb.

[Jim]

Weird!

When you re-partition the disk, you'll lose anything on the disk - save games, downloads, etc.  Could be a pain which is a good reason to do it up front even if you don't plan to install Linux yet - which is what I did.

I suspect people will find another way to initialise the 3d hardware (RSX) - either that or Sony will provide an accelerated Linux driver...

Jim

[Stonemonkey]

Had some problems burning it, nero reckoned there were problems with block size or something and it looks like it's only written 1.1Gb to the disc so I'm going to download it from somewhere else (although can't remember where I got it the first time but the % complete going into negative numbers might give it away).