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Games Guy | February 1, 2010

Specs for Playstation 3

The third entry to Sony’s revolutionary Playstation series, Playstation 3 has been tagged as the “ultimate” in video game technology with its high-tech processor, real time ability, and high definition picture that has made it one of the most remarkable video game consoles these days.

So what’s Playstation 3 made of that makes it so different and special?  Well, the specs for Playstation 3 may perhaps give the idea of what lies inside the ‘black box’ which places it among the most outstanding video game entertainments of the era.

Specs for Playstation 3 – CPU: Cell Processor
This is one of the specs for Playstation 3 that makes it rather unique, the Cell Processor is said to be able to think, calculate, and react all at the same time instantly, giving it the ability to make every game excellently spontaneous; the Cell Processor includes a PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz; 512KB L2 cache; 7x128b 128 SIMD GPRs; 1 VMX vector unit per core; 7xSPE @3.2 GHz; one of eight SPEs reserved for redundancy has a total floating point performance of 218 GFLOPS; and 7x256KB SRAM for SPE.

Specs for Playstation 3 – GPU: RSX @550MHz
The GPU of Playstation 3 contains full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels; 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance; and a multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines.

Specs for Playstation 3 – Sound and Memory
Playstation 3 sound is Dolby 5.1ch, LPCM, DTS, and more (Cell-base processing); the memory is 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz and 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2 GHz.

Specs for Playstation 3 – System Bandwith and System Floating Point Performance
Playstation 3’s system bandwith include a main RAM of 25.6GB/s, a VRAM of 22.4GB/s, an SB of 2.5 GB/s (write) + 2.5 GB/s (read), and an RSX of 20 GB/s (write) + 1.5 GB/s (read).  Its system floating point performance is 2 TFLOPS.

Specs for Playstation 3 – Storage, I/O, Communication, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Controller, and AV Output
Playstation 3’s storage is HDD with detachable 2.5”HDD slot x1; I/O includes a USB with Frontx4, Rearx2 (USB2.0), a memory stick that is standard/Dou, PRO x 1, an SD standard/mini x 1, a compact flash (type I, II) x 1; communication is Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000 BASE-TX) x 3 (input x 1 output x2); Wi-Fi is IEEE 802.11 b/g; Bluetooth is 2.0 (EDR); Controller  includes Bluetooth (up to seven), Wi-Fi (PSP), USB 2.0 (wired), and network (over IP); AV output includes a screen size of 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, a HDMI out x 2, an Analog AV multi out x 1, and digital audio (optical)x1.

These specs for Playstation 3 have made Playstation 3 one of Sony’s brilliant legacies that have become the heart of most home entertainment network.

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Games Guy | January 21, 2010

You will find that every sport in existence some type of tools which are used to enhance the quality of the participants. When you are looking at these sports you will notice that only the right equipment is used. In the game of softball this is also true. You will find that while in some cases you can interchange the baseball equipment with that of softball equipment there are differences.

These differences are ones that trained eyes can see. If these differences will not affect the quality of playing then you should not worry about using these baseball products as softball equipment. As there are many different items that you can use to make a softball game exciting we shall take a look at some of these.

The first item that we will look at in softball equipment is that of the helmet. This helmet is made from material which is lightweight to hold and yet this material is very strong. The strength is needed as the force of the softball is very fast and without the helmet the players face or head would be severely injured.

To help protect the face you will find that on the front of the helmet there is a face guard. This guard makes sure that the ball will not have any chance of impacting with the face and causing massive damage.

Now having covered the face we will travel to the body. This piece of softball equipment is one that you will only see on the catcher – if this term is wrong your pardon is asked – who needs this body guard as this person is directly behind the hitter – your pardon is again asked if there is a mistake in terminology – and is liable to getting injured by the fast flying ball.

The next piece of softball equipment which we will look at is one of the more important items around. This item is that of the softball bat. As the game of softball is one that is wielded by young children – the boys are preparing for baseball and the girls for softball – and women you will find that there is a need for a bat which is not too heavy to wield.

You will find that the softball bat is lightweight and in some cases it will be made from aluminum. The final softball equipment that we will look at on our tour is that of the softball itself. This ball is not that big but it is made in such a way that the ball will travel the distance that it needs to go. Well our tour of softball equipment is over and if you want to see what else is used you should visit a softball and see the action as it is happening.

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