November 19, 2006 left game console Nintendo Wii. It belongs to the seventh generation of consoles and is fifth from Nintendo, replacing the GameCube. Another name for the console — the Revolution. The revolution was to use wireless controllers Wii Remote and Wii MotionPlus, reacting to the movements of the player.
Based Wii was a Broadway processor, developed jointly with IBM. The chip was based on popular gaming consoles of that time the PowerPC architecture and worked at a frequency of 729 MHz. All in all, for Nintendo, it produced more than 100 million 90-nanometrovoj CPUs Broadway. The console was equipped with 24 MB memory of type SRAM, 64 MB GDDR3. Graphics adapter ATI Hollywood functioned at a speed of 243 MHz. Plus the Wii was equipped with a storage capacity of 512 MB.
As you can see, even by the standards of 2006 Wii could not boast of good technical characteristics. However, Nintendo has managed to impose competition and the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. However, the Japanese themselves are constantly trying to distance itself from direct comparison to the seventh generation consoles. To some it may seem surprising, but the Wii became more popular than his contemporaries. By October 2008, it has sold over 34.5 million devices. The Wii cost $ 250 was gradually decreased to 150 dollars. General statistics are inexorable: over the June 2007 Nintendo of Japan has sold six times more than PlayStation 3. In may — five times more in April — four times more. In the US the numbers were not as impressive, but there was the leader of the Wii. As a result, for your long enough life cycle was sold approximately 102 million consoles Nintendo. PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sold much worse: for 84 million units on each console. The record to date is an iconic PlayStation 2. This console has sold over 155 million units.
As you know, November 15, 2013 came the PlayStation 4. For two years it was sold for 29 million units. Given the fact that the life cycle of game consoles is on average 6-7 years, you can assume that the popularity of the fourth “Curling” is unlikely to surpass the Wii. The Xbox One is even worse.
Nintendo Wii
November 19, 2007, the company AMD introduced the platform Spider. It included video card series Radeon HD 3000, Phenom CPU and system logic 700 series. All is good, but the 65-nanometer Quad-core “stones” has failed completely. First, they in all respects inferior to the Intel. However, nothing surprising in this. At the same time, AMD chips could not treat the user at least a good overclocking potential. So, in the world there are units Phenom’s, capable of operating at 4 GHz. Thirdly, immediately after the processor has found a critical error, leading to permanent malfunction of the system. The problem was solved by issuing special patches for the BIOS. However, it reduced already poor performance of the Phenom another 10-15%. In General, this series of CPUs, AMD can be called the most disastrous in the entire history of the company.
But the video card failed, though not enough stars in the sky. After purchase the graphics division ATI range of Radeon HD 3000 turned out to be very successful. Especially in the background of the failed Radeon HD 2000. New solutions, manufactured on 55-nm process technology, has made a worthy competition to the NVIDIA GeForce. Very attractive were the accelerators of the mid-range Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 3870. For the top segment of the “red” sent to fight your doCip — Radeon HD 3870 X2.
As for the motherboard, chipset 790FX got 42 lines PCI Express. Chipset supported CrossFireX technology memory and DDR2-1066.
AMD Radeon HD 3870 X2
19 Nov 2010 organisation PCI-SIG adopted the standard PCI Express 3.0. A key feature of the new data interface has become a new encoding scheme 128b/130b, and increased to 8 billion transfers per second (GT/s) rate of exchange. Recall that PCI Express 1.0 had a capacity of 2.5 GT/s, PCI Express 2.0 is 5 GT/s. The use of 128b/130b closer to the coefficient of channel load to 100%. This is 25% more than the previous versions of the interface using the coding scheme 8b/10b. Plus PCI Express 3.0 is backwards compatible with the first and second revisions of the PCI Express. For greater clarity, below is a small table.
PCI Express 1.0, 1 channel (one/both sides)
2/4 GB/s
PCI Express 2.0, 1 channel (one/both sides)
4/8 Gbps
PCI Express 3.0, 1 channel (one/both sides)
8/16 Gbit/s
Today in computer technology many interfaces and bus are tied to PCI Express. Therefore, the more lines (channels) supported by the platform, the higher its total functionality. For example, interface M. 2 allows you to install drives with speeds up to 32 Gbit/s. This bandwidth is provided by four lines PCI Express 3.0.