2008-07-29, 03:52 PM
[COLOR="Indigo"]I'll admit, I'm a Nintendo fangirl and I love my GameCube, but saying it's more powerful than an XBox? I lol'd. Even without seeing the specs, it doesn't sound very believable.
For the size of it, it's definitely a snappy little box. I chuckled a bit at seeing the processors used in both machines--the GC uses a PowerPC (which is the same as what was used in Apple's computers for quite some time) and the XBox uses an Intel processor (the ever-popular one seen in most PCs for a long long time).
But with a bigger case, you can get more power. It would be very very hard to make something the size of a GC be incredibly powerful, whereas with a XBox, you've got lots more room--especially for a more powerful fan to keep things cool.
I find it rather amusing that GCs have next to no retail value these days--makes me all the more glad I got mine for less than $5 3 years ago
~Lyssa[/COLOR]
For the size of it, it's definitely a snappy little box. I chuckled a bit at seeing the processors used in both machines--the GC uses a PowerPC (which is the same as what was used in Apple's computers for quite some time) and the XBox uses an Intel processor (the ever-popular one seen in most PCs for a long long time).
But with a bigger case, you can get more power. It would be very very hard to make something the size of a GC be incredibly powerful, whereas with a XBox, you've got lots more room--especially for a more powerful fan to keep things cool.
I find it rather amusing that GCs have next to no retail value these days--makes me all the more glad I got mine for less than $5 3 years ago
~Lyssa[/COLOR]