[SmG Facundo]

CPU:

- x64 Architecture

- 8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz)

- each CPU thread has its own 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 data cache

- each module of four CPU cores has a 2 MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4 MB of L2 cache

- each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources

- each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock

GPU:

- custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor

- 12 shader cores providing a total of 768 threads

- each thread can perform one scalar multiplication and addition operation (MADD) per clock cycle

- at peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second

High-fidelity Natural User Interface (NUI) sensor is always present

Storage and Memory:

- 8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s)

- 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)

- from the GPU's perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec.

- Hard drive is always present

- 50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive

Networking:

- Gigabit Ethernet

- Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct

Hardware Accelerators:

- Move engines

- Image, video, and audio codecs

- Kinect multichannel echo cancellation (MEC) hardware

- Cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing

The most recent Xbox 720 release date reports suggest Microsoft is targeting a holiday 2013 release for its next-gen box.

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[Beasty]

Noce picture there :D 720 and PS4 coming soon, thank god, weve been waiting forever for the 8th gen consoles (hope they dont drop PSN and Live though, that was microsofts problem the first time going from xbox to the 360

[SmG Battlefire]

lol it's kinda funny when gaming computers will still be better no matter how hard they try making it better. PC grows faster every minute. But console every 6 years.

[Beasty]

lol it's kinda funny when gaming computers will still be better no matter how hard they try making it better. PC grows faster every minute. But console every 6 years.

Id rather have 6 year old hard ware for $200 than a brand new Gaming PC for $1000+. Hell, i still have the most fun playing zelda on the Nintendo 64.

[SmG Battlefire]

1. Water cooling
2. Powerful
3. Goes above 30fps
4. No aim assist
5. GPU so much better
6. You can multi-task
7. Faster
8. Better graphics
9. You can upgrade it over and over
10. Spending 1000 dollars for it...worth it.
11. You can use TS for chatting in or out of game.
12. You can text messages in and out of games.
13. You can download games free
14. You can buy games very cheap for steam. So you don't spend more money on games than you spend on your console.
15. Oh almost forgot, you can hook up your xbox controller to your PC.

[Beasty]

But theres nothing like just picking up a akward three pronged controller and slaying a giant 9 foot dancing fat half naked man with some fire arrows :) some things in life cant be made better with money :D

Namely this:

[SmG Pulse]

Lol, God RAM xD

[«SmG» R3c0N]

When 720 gets released, its most probable that PC specs would be over those.
But what's sad is games become exclusive to consoles. Your PC maybe a beast but can you play Halo 4 on it?

Plus eyecandy doesn't matter much when you go competitive. I've seen and experienced disabling graphics options so that one can frag effectively.

Its not the hardware that matters, its the games.

Pulse we have the same RAM XD

[SmG HoaX]

its gonna be an awesome unit :)

[SmG Battlefire]

Wait can you play xbox 360 games into the 720? Like Halo 4?