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[vona_a]

IMO your wasting your money..... the extra ram will only really benefit linux and perhaps a few mame roms..... and at that price I could just get a shitload more RAM for my PC. At what point do you stop and say, shit for that kind of money I can do way better than 128MB of ram and a shitty 1.4 celeron?

I guess Im one of the minority that actually thinks where my money is going, instead of getting caught up in hype.

[lookformeb]

Why the hell is this in General Hardware/Technical Chat??

Ever hear of the Buy & Sell forums??

[Dan Wysocki]

do you need a mod-chip to upgrade the ram?? if not, i would think it was pointless buying these now mobos, cause dont they need the hdd wiv them coz of the locking mechanism used? I thort all mobos had unique codes for their hdds??

[fromthestars]

This does seem like quite the cool upgrade..but the real question is...what are the possible uses?

would a ps2 Emulator be possible ?
would it at least perfect the ps1 emu?
ah crap im to tired to think..somebody compile a list of the possible uses for this please..

[Dan Wysocki]

The ram upgrade does nothing to your xbox unless you r running linux or sumthing like that.  Although, i think i have seen an xbe floating around that patches game's xbe's to make them use the 128 of ram.....so.....wo really knows. I cant see that it would benefit from it really.

[Trevante]

QUOTE (fromthestars @ Dec 21 2003, 11:24 PM)

This does seem like quite the cool upgrade..but the real question is...what are the possible uses? would a ps2 Emulator be possible ? would it at least perfect the ps1 emu? ah crap im to tired to think..somebody compile a list of the possible uses for this please..

a PS2 emulator would never be possible on the Xbox unless it got a much stronger processor. besides that, the PS2's hardware is a bit complex and i don't think it could be run on an Xbox.
as for a PS1 emulator, yes that would be better with the ram and processor upgrades, but it's not worth it. PS1 is like 30 dollars now...

the ram and processor upgrades are only useful for those looking to install Linux on the Xbox. And for 200, that's a pretty damn good deal.

[Dan Wysocki]

"a PS2 emulator would never be possible on the Xbox unless it got a much stronger processor. besides that, the PS2's hardware is a bit complex and i don't think it could be run on an Xbox. "

I dont wana sound like a tard, but please explain....

[Ed_209]

Sorry that I didn't put this in the "buy and sell" forums, I am not the one selling it and I was just pointing a finger in the right direction for those interested in upgrading ram without screwing up their xbox. The people into upgrading ram usually go to the general technical chat so that is why I thought it would fit best to post in here. That's my opinion I could be wrong but oh well, if someone gets too upset over it they can move it.

As far as it being pointless or useless to have extra ram on the xbox, that's like saying it's pointless to have emulators at all on the xbox because you can just use them all on the pc. But some people hate using emulators on the pc, especially when you have younger kids etc playing. So you have to waste some money or whatever, but in general, videogames, entertainment etc is ALL a waste of money to begin with. If we want to spend 200 bucks to upgrade our user-friendly xboxes instead of upgrading our pcs then that is our choice.

Upgrading the Ram will mostly benefit linux, BUT there are emulators that crave more ram and a good amount of games won't run because of it (especially N64 emus). Also, there is a patcher you can download from xbox-scene to take the 64mb flag off so you can play all of your xbox games to utilize the extra ram. Giving you a slightly better picture quality and sound on certain games. Nothing so great to go crazy over, but every little bit helps, especially if you are going to play split screen games.

As far as needing a modchip to upgrade ram, as far as I heard you will need a new bios that will recognize the extra ram, but others say something else. The motherboard they provide isn't modded or anything, but according to the website they point out that it is "xbox live compatible" but I'll let you know one way or the other when I get everything.
But because of the fact that you need a locked hard drive you will need to at least temporarily mod it to install a hard drive and lock it with config magic etc.

[Trevante]

QUOTE (Dan Wysocki @ Dec 21 2003, 11:37 PM)

"a PS2 emulator would never be possible on the Xbox unless it got a much stronger processor. besides that, the PS2's hardware is a bit complex and i don't think it could be run on an Xbox. " I dont wana sound like a tard, but please explain....

i'm no developer, but from what i've heard, the PS2 processor is hard to program for and it does more gigaflops per second than the Xbox's so i'm not exactly sure how they could get the Xbox to emulate a system that kinda has a faster processor than the Xbox it self. But u never know, maybe i'm wrong.

[Dan Wysocki]

i always thought that the xbox processor was the fastest in a console (or does more "gigaflops" per second???)

sorry...i dont really understand.

[Trevante]

QUOTE (Dan Wysocki @ Dec 21 2003, 11:56 PM)

i always thought that the xbox processor was the fastest in a console (or does more "gigaflops" per second???) sorry...i dont really understand.

GFLOPS (gigaflops) stands for billions of floating operations per second. This is basically how fast the processor can calculate stuff.

Xbox cpu= 733 mhz  2.93 GFLOPS
PS2 cpu= 294 mhz    6.2 GFLOPS

Xbox, however has more RAM and a better GPU so Xbox games generally look better than PS2 games, however, i think the PS2 can push more polygons per second (which means more stuff onscreen at the same time), but they don't look as good as Xbox's because of PS2's crappy GPU.

Read this and it'll explain it in better detail.

[Dan Wysocki]

[Trevante]

[Scan-C]

now you couldn't run xp. it's not open source and can't be ported.

but with jsut 128 mb of ram games like gta vice citiy (when patched) run faster. the stutter in some places is not there anymore. a friend of mine upgraded his ram and so do i. well i try it. some problems with the chips as they are not the same version.