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The '''Xbox''' is a video game console designed and produced by [[Microsoft Corporation]]. It was Microsoft's first system to be launched into the gaming console market, and competed with [[Sony]]'s [[PlayStation]] 2, and the [[Nintendo]] GameCube. The Xbox was first released on November 15, 2001 in North America; February 22, 2002 in Japan; and on March 14, 2002 in Europe and Australia.
==Features==
* Over 500 games available
* Exclusive titles include Halo® 2, Full Spectrum Warrior™, Dead or Alive® 3, and Fable™
* Franchises including Grand Theft Auto III, Need for Speed™ Underground, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell®, and now EA Sports franchise Madden NFL, NCAA® Football, and FIFA Soccer.
* Online multiplayer via Xbox Live®
==Technical Specifications==
*[[CPU]]: 32-bit 733 MHz [[Pentium]] III Coppermine-based Mobile Celeron in Micro-PGA2 package. 180 nm process.
**SSE floating point SIMD. 4 single-precision floating point numbers per clock cycle.
**MMX integer SIMD.
**133 MHz 64-bit GTL+ front side bus to GPU.
**32 KB L1 cache. 128 KB on-die L2 "Advanced Transfer Cache".
*Shared memory subsystem
**64 MB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz; 6.4 GB/s
**Supplied by Hynix or Samsung depending on manufacture date and location.
*Graphics processing unit (GPU) and system chipset: 233 MHz "NV2A" ASIC. Co-developed by Microsoft and NVIDIA.
**4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
**932 megapixels/second (233 MHz x 4 pipelines), 1,864 megatexels/second (932 MP x 2 texture units) (peak)
***115 million vertices/second, 125 million particles/second (peak)
***Peak triangle performance: 29,125,000 32-pixel triangles/sec raw or w. 2 textures and lit.
****485,416 triangles per frame at 60fps
****970,833 triangles per frame at 30fps
**4 textures per pass, texture compression, full scene anti-aliasing (NV Quincunx, supersampling, multisampling)
**Bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic texture filtering
**2x – 5x (2.6 MB/s – 6.6 MB/s) CAV DVD-ROM
**8 or 10 GB, 3.5 in, 5,400 RPM hard disk. Formatted to 8 GB. FATX file system.
**Optional 8 MB memory card for saved game file transfer.
*Audio processor: NVIDIA "MCPX" (a.k.a. SoundStorm "NVAPU")
**64 3D sound channels (up to 256 stereo voices)
**HRTF Sensaura 3D enhancement
**MIDI DLS2 Support
**Monaural, Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital Live 5.1, and dts Surround (DVD movies only) audio output options
*Integrated 10/100BASE-TX wired ethernet
*DVD movie playback
*A/V outputs: composite video, S-Video, component video, SCART, Optical Digital TOSLINK, and stereo RCA analog audio
*Resolutions: 480i, 576i, 480p, 720p and 1080i
*Controller Ports: 4 proprietary USB ports
*Weight: 3.86 kg (8.5 lb)
*Dimensions: 320 × 100 × 260 mm (12.5 × 4 × 10.5 in)
==Accessories==
===Audio/video connectors===
* Standard AV Cable
* RF Adapter
* Advanced AV Pack
* High Definition AV Pack
* Advanced SCART Cable
===Networking===
* Ethernet ('''Xbox''' Live) Cable
* Xbox Wireless Adapter
* Xbox Live Starter Kit
* System Link Cable
===Multimedia===
* '''Xbox''' Windows Media Center Extender
* [[DVD]] Playback Kit
* '''Xbox''' Music Mixer
===Controllers and removable storage===
* Standard '''Xbox''' Controller
* Controller S
==Official Sites==
*[http://www.xbox.com Official Xbox/Xbox 360 Website]
*[http://www.gamespot.com/xbox Xbox] at [[GameSpot]]
*[http://xbox.ign.com/ Xbox] at [[IGN]]
[[Category:Video Game Systems]]
==Features==
* Over 500 games available
* Exclusive titles include Halo® 2, Full Spectrum Warrior™, Dead or Alive® 3, and Fable™
* Franchises including Grand Theft Auto III, Need for Speed™ Underground, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell®, and now EA Sports franchise Madden NFL, NCAA® Football, and FIFA Soccer.
* Online multiplayer via Xbox Live®
==Technical Specifications==
*[[CPU]]: 32-bit 733 MHz [[Pentium]] III Coppermine-based Mobile Celeron in Micro-PGA2 package. 180 nm process.
**SSE floating point SIMD. 4 single-precision floating point numbers per clock cycle.
**MMX integer SIMD.
**133 MHz 64-bit GTL+ front side bus to GPU.
**32 KB L1 cache. 128 KB on-die L2 "Advanced Transfer Cache".
*Shared memory subsystem
**64 MB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz; 6.4 GB/s
**Supplied by Hynix or Samsung depending on manufacture date and location.
*Graphics processing unit (GPU) and system chipset: 233 MHz "NV2A" ASIC. Co-developed by Microsoft and NVIDIA.
**4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
**932 megapixels/second (233 MHz x 4 pipelines), 1,864 megatexels/second (932 MP x 2 texture units) (peak)
***115 million vertices/second, 125 million particles/second (peak)
***Peak triangle performance: 29,125,000 32-pixel triangles/sec raw or w. 2 textures and lit.
****485,416 triangles per frame at 60fps
****970,833 triangles per frame at 30fps
**4 textures per pass, texture compression, full scene anti-aliasing (NV Quincunx, supersampling, multisampling)
**Bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic texture filtering
**2x – 5x (2.6 MB/s – 6.6 MB/s) CAV DVD-ROM
**8 or 10 GB, 3.5 in, 5,400 RPM hard disk. Formatted to 8 GB. FATX file system.
**Optional 8 MB memory card for saved game file transfer.
*Audio processor: NVIDIA "MCPX" (a.k.a. SoundStorm "NVAPU")
**64 3D sound channels (up to 256 stereo voices)
**HRTF Sensaura 3D enhancement
**MIDI DLS2 Support
**Monaural, Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital Live 5.1, and dts Surround (DVD movies only) audio output options
*Integrated 10/100BASE-TX wired ethernet
*DVD movie playback
*A/V outputs: composite video, S-Video, component video, SCART, Optical Digital TOSLINK, and stereo RCA analog audio
*Resolutions: 480i, 576i, 480p, 720p and 1080i
*Controller Ports: 4 proprietary USB ports
*Weight: 3.86 kg (8.5 lb)
*Dimensions: 320 × 100 × 260 mm (12.5 × 4 × 10.5 in)
==Accessories==
===Audio/video connectors===
* Standard AV Cable
* RF Adapter
* Advanced AV Pack
* High Definition AV Pack
* Advanced SCART Cable
===Networking===
* Ethernet ('''Xbox''' Live) Cable
* Xbox Wireless Adapter
* Xbox Live Starter Kit
* System Link Cable
===Multimedia===
* '''Xbox''' Windows Media Center Extender
* [[DVD]] Playback Kit
* '''Xbox''' Music Mixer
===Controllers and removable storage===
* Standard '''Xbox''' Controller
* Controller S
==Official Sites==
*[http://www.xbox.com Official Xbox/Xbox 360 Website]
*[http://www.gamespot.com/xbox Xbox] at [[GameSpot]]
*[http://xbox.ign.com/ Xbox] at [[IGN]]
[[Category:Video Game Systems]]