Laying some crap to rest.

[Legend11]

HappySqurriel said:

Legend11 said:

Quantum-Tarantino said:
Whoa there Dio

The BOX had a 766Mhz CELERON processor

The CUBE had a 485 Mhz POWER PC Processor


When comparing speeds between the 2, you need to AT LEAST double the MHZ speed of the Power PC (thats for comparing to Pentiums, and Celerons are FAR less powerful"

In Short, the the CPU on the CUBE was FAR better

Actually to clear some things up the Xbox does not have a 766Mhz Celeron, it has a modified Pentium 3 running at 733 Mhz.  It's main difference from a Celeron is that it has an 8-way set associative L2 cache instead of the 4-way set associative cache of the Celeron.  That makes it about 10% faster than a Celeron.

The Gamecube's cpu is based on a Power PC 750, a regular Celeron running at 733 Mhz beats a Power PC 750 running at 500 Mhz.  Now since the Gamecube's Power PC cpu is running slower than 485 Mhz and the Xbox's cpu is 10% faster than a Celeron it's *extremely* likely that the Xbox's cpu is more powerful than the Gamecube's.

What I'm trying to say is that maybe you should give up this argument because the Xbox has a more powerful GPU, CPU, more ram, and superior sound, built in ethernet, and a built in harddrive.  Of course you don't have to believe me since I'm providing a link to Anandtech to confirm it.

source: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1566&p=14

The Gekko is a custom processor based on the PowerPC G3 (750) architecture but has an advanced instruction set (50 instructions added) larger L2 cache and an advanced bus to handle the fast 1T-SRAM in the Gamecube. If you're calling the Gekko. At the time the G3 was considered (approximately) 1.5 times as powerful per clock cycle as a Pentium 3 and the G4 was considered twice as powerful as a Pentium 4. 

If you didn't realize it this is the same core that both the PS3 and XBox 360 CPUs are based off of and by your logic my 3 year old Pentium 4 3GHz is more powerful than either the PS3 or XBox 360's CPU; trust me it isn't.

 

You should take a look at the link I posted.