Cool. Is the Cell the yellow one? Is the RSX on board or is that not complete? Whats that green thingy that looks like laptop ram?
Wouah that baby's gotta suck a lot of juice a 2 ATX 2.x power supply connectors (24 pin) I only discovered these connectors last week when I bought my first PCI Express motherboard. I heard that one connector is enough to accomodate a current gen CPU (P4 or Athlon 64) and and two graphic cards of the likes of Geforce 7800 or Radeon 8xx. I understand when they say that development cost are rising!!! 10 of theses babies' got to take down your local power plant!!! Sabre
Looks very interesting and very large! The diagonal layout of the components in the top left-hand side of the board reminds me of NVIDIA's nForce2 chipset so possibly the yellow IC is the RSX. The 10 square ICs pointing in a south westerly direction from the RSX are probably the GDDR-3 Video RAM. I'm fairly sure that the green thing is a SO-DIMM Module which is commonly used in laptops, the pin layout is different thou, but this could be due to it using Rambus XDR DRAM rather than standard DDR, the Blue IC above it, is probably the CELL. As for the power question, as it's (I expect?) a very early non emulation devkit the components wouldn’t be particularly refined or optimised thus consuming much more power than the final hardware.
I hope that the retail PS3 will have sufficient cooling like the x360 will. I think it generates about 60-75watts of heat, the Cell cpu that is.
Just look at the little copper holes and draw a conclusion. The devkit is pretty much a giant grey box, think there is a pic in gameinformer last month.
This is Toshiba hardware. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2005_09/pr2001.htm So it isn't an actual PS3 devkit but probably the best they have for developing on CELL so far? edit: Cleaner picture: You can see the yellow one is CELL and the blue/aqua is the Super Companion Chip.
Good point. I would say the DDR3 is located just left (in banks) of the Yellow cell. The SODIMM could be acting as a 'snap-in' memory upgrade of some sort - but it truth it could be some random-god-knows what custom board.
Man that is sick. I wish I had 60k for a dev kit >_> argh. :ayashi Now all we need is pics of the Xbox360 Devboard and the Revolution
