Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
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Some clarification on the PS3's processor: That thing has one normal processor and eight special vector processors. Of those vector processors, only 7 are active on any given PS3, so that if one is defect, the chip doesn't have to be thrown away. These vector processors don't have as much capability as the normal processor, in fact much less. The idea is that they're simple and can be clocked to god knows where. Basically, those are general purpose high-speed shader units, like on GPUs. You can not use them to run a second normal program at the same time, so it is no normal dual or triple or whatever core processor.
The normal part of the Cell processor, as well as any of the other modern console processor (including the one of the X360) cannot run Windows because it's a PowerPC processor, similar to the G5 in Macs. As Jerry said, those processors do not understand code compiled for normal Intel- or AMD CPUs (and vice versa), so Windows won't work on these. There used to be a version of Windows that ran on PowerPC CPUs, but it's long been abandoned cause nobody wanted these. Mac OS is made for PowerPC, but recently Apple decided to switch to normal Intel processors instead, because IBM wasn't able or willing (reports differ here) to create faster versions of those processors. They would rather focus on the game console CPUs (all modern console processors are designed or co-designed by IBM) because they can get more money this way. The Cell processor is, due to the fact that Apple is switching to Intel, never going to be in a Mac. While it is impressive with it's vector units for games, the normal part of the processor is in fact quite dumb and will give worse performance than a normal CPU when used alone. For this reason, Apple didn't take it, although Sony, Toshiba and IBM offered it to them.
In fact, there is little use for the Cell outside of the Play Station 3 so far. There have been all kinds of rumors and cool-sounding plans, but the only use confirmed so far are a blade server and a special computer for military vehicles.
TubbyJ, go look though some facts... and even 1x bluray will be more than double the amount of reading speed than a good dvd reader.
yes, but you have to understand that EVERYTHING gets bigger. sure 1-2x bluray will be faster than dvd drives, but its still going to be loading Massive HD files. you do realize the switch to bluray isnt for speed, right?, its just to store the insanely huge textures for hd viewing. like every new technology, it gets better with time.
2x CDROM was slow as shit 2x DVDROM is slow as shit, and 2x BDROM will be slow as shit.
sony got lucky with the ps2, as dvd was brand new, and in Japan, the ps2 was the cheapest dvd plyer around, the ps2's were flying off the shelves because everyone wanted to watch The Matrix.
Sony's hoping for the same this time around. will they make bluray a succes? who knows. i could care less, as HD sets are still too pricey. i wont be buying HDTV till its a reasonable price like say...500 dollars.
dont get me wrong, im not bashing sony or anything, infact i would rather a ps3 over a 360 (sony at least makes stable hardware :p ).
thats wrong jerry, PowerPC isn´t x86 based like Intel or AMD or any other x86processors, Mac now works with both PowerPC and X86, so its windows that isnt compatible with the processor