(1): Xbox360 console and its accessories list
Game console has its charm which PC does not compare and is gradually accepted by gamers. People are more and more concerning about console of the era with the three major console manufacturers competition.

Microsoft as the giant of software industry, Xbox it lanuched earlier is considered as a PC in essence, and it comes with mobile Intel processor NVIDIA chipsets, Western Digital hard drive and a standard PC DVD-ROM drive, but Xbox did not gain more successful in the business for the reasons about timing and so on. It is undoubtedly that laid an excellent foundation for launching of next generation console.

Xbox360 and Xbox contrast, Xbox 360 is more slender

『Xbox360 include additional hard drives, headphones and remote controller』

Xbox 360 is more compact than Xbox and with Xbox 360 console, 20GB removeable hard drive, remote control, wireless controller, headset, Ethernet cable, AV video cable, external power supply .

It is speculated that Xbox 360 higher in power consumption than the previous generation, and in order to take into  account the size of the console should use an external while Xbox is a built-in power supply.

(2): Xbox360 use free screw design, greatly increased difficulty in dismantling

Microsoft has made some experience in the design of Xbox, because Xbox use ordinary screw fixation for easy to be opened by commonly tools, and change Xbox’s hardware or crack . Microsoft has been to prevent this happen through BIOS initialization state certified by Xbox Live, but hacker easy to crack this and allow users to easily switch between the normal state of BIOS and state after cracked.

『Xbox360-free screw design, is difficult to open for ordinary users』

Microsoft has clearly pointed out that this system would not be opened by ordinary users, Xbox 360 use the non-screw design, full use fit shell, which is difficult for opening Xbox 360 behavior.Therefore, we recommend you use following tools if you want to open Xbox 360:

• T6, T7, T12 specifications triangle screwdriver
• a flat head screwdriver or a thin wedge
• a 2-inch long thin metal rod, the most thickness is not more than 1.5 millimeters
• a 2-inch long flat metal rod, the most thickness is not more than 1 millimeters
• Two sharp mouth pliers

(3): First remove panel and chassis side cover
Open Xbox 360 console front panel firstly for Xbox 360 using removable panel design, it is relatively easy to remove them. You can stretch thumb to the console USB interface and gently take off.

The next is to remove the metal panel upper the console, do not try to use wedge, take advantage of pressure will be able to let it fall slowly.

Remove the upper cover of Xbox 360.

Then open the side cover of Xbox 360.

After open the side cover, you will see there is metal panel to protect Xbox 360, and there are 14 silver screw and 8 black screw, they can be removed by using different screwdriver.

The internal of Xbox 360 has been exposed completely in front of us, and similar with the computer, drive occupy a great deal of size and processor does not use fan cooling instead of using heat sink to overall heat cooling.

(4): Remove the DVD drive, we can see Xbox360 motherboard layout

The following removal is CD-ROM, which occupies a large portion volume of console, you can take off CD-ROM easily after unplug SATA cable and 12-pin power cord.

The appearance of Xbox 360 motherboard has been glanced, processor and graphics core are protected by heat sink, as well as chip group can be seen in motherboard while motherboard also integrates with other chips.

Xbox 360’s RF radio frequency modules, remove it with screwdriver. Static electricity may cause the hardware demage, so your motion must be gentle.

(5): Remove the heatsink and motherboard, CPU and GPU are dominate
You must be patient while disassembly of GPU and CPU cooler for we can see everywhere reflect “X” feature in the thermal design.

『Integrated thermal design』

We can see more clearly about chips after removed the motherboard, CPU and GPU, also memory near the GPU.

(6): CPU core preview, 3 PowerPC cores play a strong role
Xbox 360 uses the IBM’s PowerPC core, we know that the previous PowerPC instruction set is different from previous, so can not be transplanted directly in games.

Xbox360 microprocessor designed based on IBM 64 bit PowerPC microprocessor, and composed of 165 million transistors, can improve the implementation of performance and reduce power consumption by using IBM’s 90nm SilicononInsulator, SOI.

The processor has three symmetrical microprocessor core, operating at frequencies up to 3.2GHz, each core are a dual-thread processing capability, a total of handling six threads simultaneously. Each processor core for the Microsoft Xbox360 needs, equipped with improved version of the VMX-128 vector computing unit, with 128 of the buffer 128bit, is 4 times of the standard VMX, while also adding new instructions required for gaming applications and strengthen the implementation of the performance and reduce bandwidth requirements.

The processor includes 1MB second-order memory for three core share, and join with high-speed streaming data special logic processing unit for graphics applications and system appilcations to improve data transission efficiency and bandwidth utilization.

(7): GPU Architecture using a unified pixel and vertex

Xbox360′s graphics chip designed by ATi, Microsoft has this graphics chip IP rights, but Microsoft can not sell to the public this graphics processor card.

This graphics processor also play a role of motherboard Northbridge chip. GPU will adopt a unified Shader architecture, different from traditional PC graphics processor which using separate pixel and vertex units, while Xbox 360 use unified command structure and logic to accomplish these two operations. This unified design more effieient, it can use less number transistors to achieve a amount of additional functionality.

Xbox360′s graphics processor with 48 shader processor units, as mentioned above, because it uses a unified shader units, so it can not simply contrast 7800GTX graphics cards, we have a rough estimate it’s performance should be similar to 24 pipelines R420 (Note: ATi does not have 24 pipeline R420, here is simply estimating).

Another most important features of graphics uses a dual-Die package, a total of 332 million transistors, the larger Die equivalent of conventional sense of GPU, while the smaller one Die is a 10MB capacity DRAM, to meet the needs of GPU processing z-axis, template processing, color,alpha treatment and anti-sawtooth processing.

Because uses a completely different processor, and a new graphics processor, so Xbox 360 achieve games support by software simulation.

Xbox 360 is first step for Microsoft support high-definition output, which support the game 720p (1280×720) high-resolution output. Xbox 360 supports all popular output formats, including: 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i.

Microsoft did not provide DVI or HDMI output, if you do not have high-definition TV, you can via VDA connector to link PC monitor, or through S-Video AV terminal output.

(8): Chipset interpretation, integrated GPU to enjoy 22GB / s bus bandwidth
We mentioned earlier the NorthBridge Xbox 360 has been integrated into the GPU, and similar to PC integrated graphics chipsets.

On the other hand Northbridge CPU FSB interface is also integrated to provide up and down along the 10.8GB / s total of 21.6GB / s of bandwidth!

At the same time North Bridge also provides up to 500MB / s and the south bridge of communication, while the South Bridge designed by SiS! South Bridge is used for a variety of storage devices, audio chip, USB devices and other I / O devices coordination.

(9): wireless controller introduction, the console can support four handle connections at the same time

Remote control and other input device are key in game console, while Xbox 360 with the use of 2.4GHz RF wireless controller, but that not everyone can easily have, and only $ 399 suite, while the $ 299 suite is only with the line, it can be sure that Xbox 360 will support four wireless controller.

It is still very light even wireless controller installed the battery. This is a very innovative design w that RF transmitter and receiver in the back of the power button.

(10): Memory analysis, built-in dual-layer DVD drive and external Hard Drive

Xbox 360 comes with a dual-layer DVD-ROM, this produced by Hitachi-LG, we mentioned before Xbox 360 equipped with a standard SATA interface, also with a dedicated power supply interface for the dual-layer DVD-ROM can bring a greater storage capacity.

Xbox 360 with a removable hard drive, which for game developers, can through Cache to reduce the disk unnecessary load time, but also through Xbox Live to download the content they need. If you want to run pre-generation Xbox game, it must need help from hard disk.

Because the previous generation games are not compatible with existing hardware and can only be achieved by simulating.

Dismantling and presentations by the above, I believe you have a comprehensive understanding of Xbox 360.With the games continuous introduction, it will go to show it has value for us to expect.