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 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3)
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Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3)
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Average Rating: 5 out of 5
No. of Reviews: 1
RRP: £425
Year: from 2007

Description:
CPU: Cell processor, PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz, VMX vector unit per core, 512KB L2 cache, 7x SPE@3.2GHz, 7x 128b 128SIMD PRs, 7x 256KB SRAM for SPE, (1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy)
Graphics processor: RSX @550MHz, 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance, Full HD (up to 1080p) x2 channels, Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (cell-based processing)
Memory: 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700Mhz
Inputs/outputs: USB Front x 4, Rear x2 (USB2.0), Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x1, SD standard/mini x1, Compact Flash (Type I, II) x1
Communication: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2), Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
AV outputs: Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p, HDMI - HDMI out x2, Analogue - AV MULTI OUT x 1, Digital audio - DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x1
Disc media: CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blue-ray disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE


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Overall
 
93%
Performance
 
100%
Build
 
100%
Value
 
80%
impreza99 30/1/2008
BETTER THAN A XBOX360
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