Xbox 720 Durango Dev Kit Appears Online for Sale

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Awesome! Day 1 purchase here. PC gaming is so stale and boring anymore with no good exclusives. Looking forward to seeing these new consoles, as they should be pretty future proof with the specs they are touting (8GB RAM, 8-core CPU, modern GFX card).

Hopefully they have a new Call of Duty as a launch title for this like they did for the 360. Or maybe Halo?
 
[citation][nom]ConSOULGamingllll[/nom]Awesome! Day 1 purchase here. PC gaming is so stale and boring anymore with no good exclusives. Looking forward to seeing these new consoles, as they should be pretty future proof with the specs they are touting (8GB RAM, 8-core CPU, modern GFX card). Hopefully they have a new Call of Duty as a launch title for this like they did for the 360. Or maybe Halo?[/citation]

Troll so hard...
 
Awesome! Day 1 purchase here. PC gaming is so stale and boring anymore with no good exclusives. Looking forward to seeing these new consoles, as they should be pretty future proof with the specs they are touting (8GB RAM, 8-core CPU, modern GFX card).

Hopefully they have a new Call of Duty as a launch title for this like they did for the 360. Or maybe Halo?
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You almost had me. But then I knew for sure you were trolling when you said "modern GFX card".
 
I wonder why they're going to have 8 cores. Are they predicting games to use that much more cpu in the future? I have an i5 quad core right now and cpu has never been a bottleneck. What do you guys think. Is this just another reason for them to charge us more for the system or are games really going to require that much more professing power?
 
[citation][nom]ConSOULGamingllll[/nom]Awesome! Day 1 purchase here. PC gaming is so stale and boring anymore with no good exclusives. Looking forward to seeing these new consoles, as they should be pretty future proof with the specs they are touting (8GB RAM, 8-core CPU, modern GFX card). Hopefully they have a new Call of Duty as a launch title for this like they did for the 360. Or maybe Halo?[/citation]


In 2 years those'll become outdated again.
 
[citation][nom]leongrado[/nom]I wonder why they're going to have 8 cores. Are they predicting games to use that much more cpu in the future? I have an i5 quad core right now and cpu has never been a bottleneck. What do you guys think. Is this just another reason for them to charge us more for the system or are games really going to require that much more professing power?[/citation]

Not really. Games are REALLY hard to make parallel, though when coding in Assembly, its easier to do, so for a console, more cores will probably help more then it would on a PC.

Thats why current consoles can still kinda keep up with midrange PC's: They are coded at a MUCH lower level, so you get better performance out of lower-tier hardware.
 
[citation][nom]KidABear[/nom]Troll so hard...[/citation]

How is it trolling? Current XBOX has 512MB of shared memory, a triple core CPU, and an X1900 series graphics card, and games still look great on it. Heck, the PS3 has a weaker graphics card, and the Uncharted and God of War series are FAR better looking than anything on PC.

This is a substantial hardware upgrade. The games already look great now; I can't even imagine what the next Uncharted will look like!
 
[citation][nom]bdizzle11[/nom]Lolwut? Ill go side by side with a PS3 anyday.[/citation]

Then you don't have a real PC. Real men that $$$ to afford a real PC

[citation][nom]KNO3[/nom]You almost had me. But then I knew for sure you were trolling when you said "modern GFX card".[/citation]

Microsoft will be bringing internet explorer to the table for the XBOX soon. But as far as installing Windows that would most likely void warranty and give you a nice Live ban.
 
[citation][nom]ConSOULGamingIIII[/nom]How is it trolling? Current XBOX has 512MB of shared memory, a triple core CPU, and an X1900 series graphics card, and games still look great on it. Heck, the PS3 has a weaker graphics card, and the Uncharted and God of War series are FAR better looking than anything on PC.This is a substantial hardware upgrade. The games already look great now; I can't even imagine what the next Uncharted will look like![/citation]

Go home kid. Nobody here is going to fall into your trap.
 
Let me correct my comment : This does not contain any surprising information. Many guys in forums have said Xbox 720 has 8 Gig ram or perhaps more. 8 core cpu . A new graphic card as powerful as GTX 580. And supports DX11. But now we can see development kit that many game studios like Crytek are working on. Microsoft is not happy for sure !!!
 
i'm happy to see new consoles if only so the quality of my pc games will go up as console ports have access to new hardware. my pc isn't that special 955 black edition, 2x gts 450 in sli, 8 gigs of ram but I played mass effect 1 and 2 on my pc and it looked pretty slick, even those playing console saw what it looked like and didn't even think it was the same game... then came mass effect 3 i didn't want origins on my pc and i didn't want to pirate so i bought it for the 360... it looks like somehting got thrown up on my screen its a nice mid range 37" led lcd 1080p which looks amazing when i hook up and play pc games so i know it isn't the display, the edges are just so jagged, the shading is not ... good smoke and effect just look bad. if the system rumors are true then the bar will be set so muchhigher and once i do another system upgrade it'll make things look all the better
 
[citation][nom]gsxrme[/nom]Then you don't have a real PC. Real men that $$$ to afford a real PC[/citation]

Nice try, troll, but my Mac Pro was way more expensive than your toy computer and is far more advanced. Professionals like me use computers for REAL work and leave games to consoles where they belong.

I'd love to see your "real PC" hang with an 8-core Xeon in things that matter in the real world, like doing grown up work, LOL. Hint: your overpriced graphics card doesn't mean JACK!
 
8 CORES Does NOT equal 8x the performance.

AX,BX,CX,DX, EX, EAX

All the cores use the same, extremely small memory registers. Don't be fooled. any performance increase you see will be for the GPU, not the CPU. Are you willing to pay 500ish dollars for a GPU for your PC? Then why would your TV? Only to have it out of date by the time you purhcase it, with NO HOPES OF UPGRADING.

IMO Console's are dying. It's the same repeated trash for way too much money that hinders developers and hinders advances. OUYA, is the way to go. Low costs, easy to upgarde (just buy a new one) and open-source.
 
I'm just happy the M$ 720 "appears" to be full 64bit, 8 megs RAM, etc. ANYTHING to get us out of the old 32bit - DX9(equivalent) world.
The photos show very little and looks well censored, unless you like Matrix screen savers - surprised "DaE and has since been banned from the AssemblerGames forums"
If M$ also used AVX2 as the main instruction set for the 720, then the old awkward x86 instruction set will be out (sooner) too.
 
[citation][nom]ConSOULGamerlllll[/nom]Nice try, troll, but my Mac Pro was way more expensive than your toy computer and is far more advanced. Professionals like me use computers for REAL work and leave games to consoles where they belong.I'd love to see your "real PC" hang with an 8-core Xeon in things that matter in the real world, like doing grown up work, LOL. Hint: your overpriced graphics card doesn't mean JACK![/citation]


If you were doing real work you wouldn't have bought a mac. You paid twice as much for the same hardware you could have gotten for a standard workstation PC and locked yourself into a proprietary eco system to boot. Yeah good job there.
 
HOnestly...I don't think this is legit.
Looking at the specs, they seem a bit high compared to what was previously assumed. We went from an (assumed) IBM or AMD quad core with possibly 4 gigs of ram and a 67xx series gpu to this?
An eight core intel alone costs at least $800, not to mention a likely high end graphics card, which would cost another $200-300? I mean I know microsoft gets discounts for bulk, but seriously. All together this has to be around $1100 at market price. Even if they could cut that in half, I don't see anyone spending $500+ on a console.
 
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