| bumidan said: oh squilliam, i read the article, its for nov 2006? so its been a while. how much do you think those components dropped in cost again? starting july 2008? |
Every motherboard revision costs less money. Especially when the Cpu die size is reduced because it simplifies a lot of the power regulation curcuitry on the motherboard.
The Xbox360 has a powerful/hot CPU and GPU all contained on the one motherboard. The power regulation circuitry would be expensive. 200w peak power consumption.
When the motherboard shrunk with Falcon they removed a few of the power regulation components and thats one of the differences people looked out for when looking for the revision.
With Jasper they will simplify the motherboard design still further. But I think you should wait until someones cracked it open. There are smarter minds than myself who will disect the Jasper revision to work out the cost.
As for the chips if they cost say for example $100 for all three in 2006, in 2007 they would cost about $80 for Falcon and about $60 for Jasper.
Tease.
