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Was the XBOX's Celeron processor FCPGA2 or BPGA?

MadRat

MadRat

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I was thinking that everything else on the XBOX seems to be hacked these days. Has anyone went after the main CPU and tried to remove it? If its a mobile CPU then I'd think it would be soldered into the socket. If its an FCPGA processor then there is no reason that a P!!! couldn't slide in there...

Has anyone tried to change the CPU in their XBOX?
 
It is soldered in. There has also been some debate about whether or not it's a Celeron or P3 CPU. From my understanding, it has the cache size of a Celeron, but it runs on a 133mhz FSB like the P3. 🙂
 
That is just wrong to use a standard CPU then to solder it in. Shame on Microsoft.
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It's a console for goodness sake. There's no need for a socket so they havnt used one. The CPU is a P3 with half the Cache. I'd give good ods on everything being locked, so even if you managed to replace it without destroying the X-Box, I'd bet that a new CPU would still be forced to run at 733 MHz
 
Yes, as they've said already. The CPU is actually a P3 with half the cache... but the cache is 8-way associative, as it is in a P3, whereas in a celeron it's only 4-way. So literally, it is a P3 with half the cache.
 
Good post, Chad !

First time I learn about the cache "8-way" associativity of the X-box processor (... I had been wondering... ). Much better, indeed, than a "Celeron" running at 133MHz FSB.

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