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Written by Milan Djukic
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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The cheaper variant of PlayStation 3 which appeared in States was marked as Basic and had hard disk capacity of 20 GB. However, only a day after this article has reached its final phase, Sony announced that it will not sell Basic models on the territory of USA any more, but only Premium, as in other countries of the world, so we can say that there is only one version of PlayStation 3 console, which has hard disk capacity of 60 GB, Blue-ray reader, HDMI port, Bluetooth controller, installed Wi-Fi and memory card reader (SD, MMC, Compact Flash, etc.). Besides all mentioned, there are four USB ports for switching controllers or charge cordless SIXAXIS which came in package.
What you are most interested in terms of hardware is PS3’s Cell processor with even eight cores and that one core has speed of 3.2 GHZ. The total speed of the system is not even partly used yet, because the current titles use one to two cores of this console. Practically it means that PS3 will remain on the market for a long time, as from one year to another programmers will succeed to implement the support for more additional cores in their games. Bottleneck of this system could easily be system memory there is only 512MB of it, and although it is actually sufficient for current games, it is too bad it can’t be upgraded by enthusiasts. Talking about graphics, the solution this time was signed by Nvidia with its G70 GPU (previously known as NV47). GPU has 256 MB of GDDR3 memory.
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