PS3.5: Sony Patent Shows Plans To Increase PS3s Power With External Processor

I'm fine with Sony doing that. Buying the peripheral will probably be cheaper than buying another console

As many said before: This never worked in the past and Sony doesn't have any fast enough external ports for this to work as intended

[QUOTE="Bus-A-Bus"]

If they really did that it would prove that:

1.PS3 and Sonys "theory" about 10 year old slow burning plan will fail without adding more power to actually push them above competition.

2.PS3 is maxed and they dont have money to go into new console year or two from now.

3.They are crazy.

Yea...its not gonna happen.No freakin way its gonna happen.

lbjkurono23

but the power of "teh cell"!!!!

I find it to be stupid to have external CPU. How would the external CPU communicate with the internal one? USB? :lol:abuabed

You underestimate the power of...TEH CELL! jkjk :P

hahahahaha what

you dont just slap a cpu into a box and slam a usb port onto it. it doesnt work that way

Man, thats a terrible idea! Havent Sony learned nothing from MegaCD, 32X, 64DD nd others? :|

I find it to be stupid to have external CPU. How would the external CPU communicate with the internal one? USB? :lol:abuabed

PS3 has 1Gbit ethernet which is faster than 480Mbit USB 2.0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLte5f34ya8

Real time Raytracing/Raycast with 3 PS3 consoles and 1Gbit connections.

Sony becoming sega? xD

this gen is like the snes/megadrive era cept we haave the addition of the wii just doing its own thing.

[QUOTE="abuabed"]I find it to be stupid to have external CPU. How would the external CPU communicate with the internal one? USB? :lol:ronvalencia

PS3 has 1Gbit ethernet which is faster than 480Mbit USB 2.0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLte5f34ya8

Real time Raytracing/Raycast with 3 PS3 consoles and 1Gbit connections.

Maybe they should first concentrate on increasing the PS3 sales and releasing games on time than increasing the PS3 power :lol:

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"]

[QUOTE="abuabed"]I find it to be stupid to have external CPU. How would the external CPU communicate with the internal one? USB? :lol:abuabed

PS3 has 1Gbit ethernet which is faster than 480Mbit USB 2.0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLte5f34ya8

Real time Raytracing/Raycast with 3 PS3 consoles and 1Gbit connections.

No external GPU on the PC??? Refer to "ViDock 4" external GPU box i.e. http://vidock4.com/videos.aspx

Intel Nehalem era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 2.0 slot which is equivalent to PCI-Express 1.0 2X

Intel Sandybridge era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 3.0 slot which is equivalent to PCI-Express 1.0 4X

DIY ViDock from http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences.html#post5324240

Console beating Devil May Cry 4 PC at 1920x1200+MSAA:4X+All Settings:Highwith external AMD Radeon HD 4670+Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 2 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5NmURV5P8

Assassin's Creed II PCat 1920x1080p+MSAA:8X+All Settings:Max with external AMD Radeon HD 5770 +Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 4from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8Ua1cc36c&feature=related

[QUOTE="abuabed"][QUOTE="ronvalencia"]

PS3 has 1Gbit ethernet which is faster than 480Mbit USB 2.0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLte5f34ya8

Real time Raytracing/Raycast with 3 PS3 consoles and 1Gbit connections.

ronvalencia

No external GPU on the PC??? Refer to "ViDock 4" external GPU box i.e. http://vidock4.com/videos.aspx

Intel Nehalem era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 2.0 slot which equals PCI-Express 1.0 2X

Intel Sandybridge era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 3.0 slot which equals PCI-Express 1.0 4X

DIY ViDock from http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences.html#post5324240

Console beating Devil May Cry 4 PC at 1920x1200+MSAA:4X+All Settings:Highwith external AMD Radeon HD 4670+Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 2 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5NmURV5P8

Assassin's Creed II PCat 1920x1080p+MSAA:8X+All Settings:Max with external AMD Radeon HD 5770 +Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 4from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8Ua1cc36c&feature=related

what are sony gonna do. tell all ps3 users to solder on new connections for these slow ports hahahhaa

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"]

[QUOTE="abuabed"] That's still not enough to make full(not even 50%) use of the external CPU. You'll need a much higher bandwidth to utilize an external CPU which is why we don't have any external CPUs/GPUs on PC. Firebird-5

No external GPU on the PC??? Refer to "ViDock 4" external GPU box i.e. http://vidock4.com/videos.aspx

Intel Nehalem era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 2.0 slot which equals PCI-Express 1.0 2X

Intel Sandybridge era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 3.0 slot which equals PCI-Express 1.0 4X

DIY ViDock from http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences.html#post5324240

Console beating Devil May Cry 4 PC at 1920x1200+MSAA:4X+All Settings:Highwith external AMD Radeon HD 4670+Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 2 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5NmURV5P8

Assassin's Creed II PCat 1920x1080p+MSAA:8X+All Settings:Max with external AMD Radeon HD 5770 +Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 4from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8Ua1cc36c&feature=related

what are sony gonna do. tell all ps3 users to solder on new connections for these slow ports hahahhaa

My post is designed for "we don't have any external CPUs/GPUs on PC" claim.

Anyway, PS3 includes some broken design i.e. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1007286/ps3-hardware-slow-broken

Notice 16MB/s for CELL Read for VRAM. Good job blue team....

[QUOTE="Firebird-5"]

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"]

No external GPU on the PC??? Refer to "ViDock 4" external GPU box i.e. http://vidock4.com/videos.aspx

Intel Nehalem era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 2.0 slot which equals PCI-Express 1.0 2X

Intel Sandybridge era laptop PCs includes ExpressCard 3.0 slot which equals PCI-Express 1.0 4X

DIY ViDock from http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences.html#post5324240

Console beating Devil May Cry 4 PC at 1920x1200+MSAA:4X+All Settings:Highwith external AMD Radeon HD 4670+Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 2 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE5NmURV5P8

Assassin's Creed II PCat 1920x1080p+MSAA:8X+All Settings:Max with external AMD Radeon HD 5770 +Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop and ViDock 4from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8Ua1cc36c&feature=related

ronvalencia

what are sony gonna do. tell all ps3 users to solder on new connections for these slow ports hahahhaa

well my post was designed for the topic

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"][QUOTE="Firebird-5"]

what are sony gonna do. tell all ps3 users to solder on new connections for these slow ports hahahhaa

well my post was designed for the topic

the expansion pack for n64 was brilliant. You couldn't even see it as they designed all n64 systems beforehand for this kinda thing. With the ps3 there is no where to put the external processor except for an external USB connection. Another issue is price. Nintendo gave expansion packs away for FREEEEEEE with Donkey Kong 64...(a great game btw). This external processor sounds expensive.

Lol

talk about trying to hard to be a pc.

People already compair the PS3 to pc, why make it more compairable?

At TC. The patent includes "In accordance with one or more embodiments, the multi-processor system may be implemented as a single-chip solution operable for stand-alone and/or distributed processing of media-rich applications, such as game systems, home terminals, PC systems, server systems and workstations". Sony's patent includes other systems besides game systems.

PS; Sony's patent is in conflict with

1. AMD's HyperTransport based multi-co-processor setups and XGP external GPU setups..

2.Intel/PCI-SIG's PCI Express External Cabling standardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_External_Cabling

So its basically the Nintendo 64 Expansion pack? Not really interested

I actually didn't know people are still using external GPUs/CPUs these days. Thought they all perished since they perform badly compared to the internal ones. Nonetheless we'll get less performance with an external CPU/GPU compared to an internal one. and for a PS3 if you don't have a wireless network or prefer to connect it with a wire you'll have to sacrifice that one Ethernet port for a little eye candy.

EDIT: I see my "no PC external GPUs/CPUs" made quite a mess :P It should have been "we don't usually use external CPUs/GPUs" and that is for performance sake. They are available, that's true but they perform poorly in comparison.

That bit about "PS3.5" is complete speculation. In fact it doesn't make any sense, considering the PS3 doesn't have any high-bandwidth external ports.

Teufelhuhn

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]

That bit about "PS3.5" is complete speculation. In fact it doesn't make any sense, considering the PS3 doesn't have any high-bandwidth external ports.

Plagueless

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]

That bit about "PS3.5" is complete speculation. In fact it doesn't make any sense, considering the PS3 doesn't have any high-bandwidth external ports.

Plagueless

The PS32X?

hakanakumono

Oh no you didn't!

I dont care of the drawback on marketing.... as long as my ps3 bulk up power with half price of a new console... then I would be happy.hippiesanta

buy a pc

[QUOTE="hippiesanta"]I dont care of the drawback on marketing.... as long as my ps3 bulk up power with half price of a new console... then I would be happy.Firebird-5

buy a pc

They can add an external processor to help increase the processing power, but how can they get around the bottleneck on the main bus that reduces their overall throughput of data? The extra processed information will still take the same time to get to the ocmponents of the console, so its more like PS3.25 instead of PS3.5...

It needs two things, a stand alone physics processor, and a better video card (and a ram upgrade could not hurt) and then it would be a huge addon. It would also be a PC.

Why couldn't they release something like this, and games made after its on the market would be developed to take advantage of the extra horsepower. Sorta like how all pc games don't look the greatest unless you have the latest and badess gpu. So joe blow without the addon, plays his normal ps3 game, while people with it gets an overall boost. If done like this no one is missing out on a great game but the people such as myself that would buy the addon would be playing a ps3 game on steroids lol.

I wonder if Sony would impliment this addon with this kind of strategy?

[QUOTE="Firebird-5"]

[QUOTE="hippiesanta"]I dont care of the drawback on marketing.... as long as my ps3 bulk up power with half price of a new console... then I would be happy.hippiesanta

buy a pc

That bit about "PS3.5" is complete speculation. In fact it doesn't make any sense, considering the PS3 doesn't have any high-bandwidth external ports.

Teufelhuhn

[QUOTE="Firebird-5"]

[QUOTE="hippiesanta"]I dont care of the drawback on marketing.... as long as my ps3 bulk up power with half price of a new console... then I would be happy.hippiesanta

buy a pc

Lol

talk about trying to hard to be a pc.

People already compair the PS3 to pc, why make it more compairable?

Gamingclone

To make better games

The also patented a touch controller, 'Playstation Arc', and external PS2 emulation.

This won't happen.

N64 Expansion Pak SEGA 32X SEGA CD Turbo CD Atari Jaguar CD When will these companies learn that add-ons like these are a bad idea? savebattery

Wii motion plus? Move? Kinect? All add ons buddy... w/ a different marketing spin.

Why couldn't they release something like this, and games made after its on the market would be developed to take advantage of the extra horsepower. Sorta like how all pc games don't look the greatest unless you have the latest and badess gpu. So joe blow without the addon, plays his normal ps3 game, while people with it gets an overall boost. If done like this no one is missing out on a great game but the people such as myself that would buy the addon would be playing a ps3 game on steroids lol.

I wonder if Sony would impliment this addon with this kind of strategy?

I'm interested on how this is going to turn out.

Why couldn't they release something like this, and games made after its on the market would be developed to take advantage of the extra horsepower. Sorta like how all pc games don't look the greatest unless you have the latest and badess gpu. So joe blow without the addon, plays his normal ps3 game, while people with it gets an overall boost. If done like this no one is missing out on a great game but the people such as myself that would buy the addon would be playing a ps3 game on steroids lol.

I wonder if Sony would impliment this addon with this kind of strategy?

GreyFoXX4

What was all the other pointless crap?UCF_Knight

If they really did that it would prove that:

1.PS3 and Sonys "theory" about 10 year old slow burning plan will fail without adding more power to actually push them above competition.

2.PS3 is maxed and they dont have money to go into new console year or two from now.

3.They are crazy.

Yea...its not gonna happen.No freakin way its gonna happen.

Bus-A-Bus

Bad idea, really bad idea.

Jesus_on_fire

I don't know if that's a good idea

ActicEdge