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Originally Posted by OoZic You are comparing a duo core cisc processor from end 2009 to a 8 core risk processor from 2005? Now that makes sense And for compatibility the PS3's PPC clock speed can't be changed. the development for PPC is much further now compared to 2005. The 3200 Mhz is actually a little slow, before they started using it in the PS3 they clocked it at 5000 Mhz Only for heat problems in the small console they cut it down to 3200 Mhz. And we don't say the PS3 is a powerful system, we say it is a powerful console It isn't for nothing the USA army recently (december 2010) bought about 2000 PS3's to build a supercomputer. If they could have done it with cheap Athlon Regor processors they would have done it. With Ahtlon Regor processors they need about 4X as much computers to get the same and it would cost them 10X as much http://hothardware.com/News/New-PS3-...-Fully-Online/

SPEs don't count as cores SPEs=/= cores. I just gave the regor as an example, consoles use old technology even for their time, eg the new WIi U is going to be using a graphics card 2 generations (by the time it is released 3 generations!) old. The reason for the sales of the systems for use in parallel as supercomputers is because Sony was selling the PS3s at a price at which they weren't making a profit (they were through game sales and PSn sales, but the not console sales in order to compete with the 360 and WIi pricing) hence the rise in use as supercomputers. As I said before it's not the processing power that makes the system able to handle data it's the efficient architecture, (same reason why sandy bridge (dual core up to octathreaded (4c/8t)) beats even the (6-core) thuban series).