Nintendo Gamecube Review

This is a review of the nintendo gamecube.(recently bought)



**Gamecube Specs**

The NINTENDO GAMECUBE carries on the "DNA" of Nintendo games and gave birth to a new kind of entertainment that surpasses existing concepts of what great gaming is.

The "New Generation of Entertainment" in the 21st Century starts right here.

* MPU("Microprocessor Unit")* IBM Power PC "Gekko".

* Manufacturing Process 0.18 microns Copper Wire Technology

* Clock Frequency 405 MHz.

* CPU Capacity 925 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1).

* Internal Data Precision 32bit Integer & 64bit Floating-point.

* External Bus Bandwidth 1.6GB/second(Peak).

* External Bus Bandwidth 1.6GB/second(Peak) (32bit address, 64bit data bus 202.5MHz).

* Internal Cache L1: Instruction 32KB, Data 32KB (8 way) L2: 256KB (2 way).

* Internal Cache L1: Instruction 32KB, Data 32KB (8 way) L2: 256KB (2 way).

* System LSI "Flipper".

* Manufacturing Process 0.18 microns NEC Embedded DRAM Process.

* Embedded Frame Buffer Approx. 2MB.

* Embedded Frame Buffer Approx. 2MB Sustainable Latency : 5ns (1T-SRAM).

* Embedded Texture Cache Approx. 1MB Sustainable Latency : 5ns (1T-SRAM).

* Texture Read Bandwidth 12.8GB/second (Peak).

* Main Memory Bandwidth 3.2GB/second (Peak).

* Color, Z Buffer Each is 24bits.

* Image Processing Function Fog, Subpixel Anti-aliasing, HW Light x8, Alpha Blending, Virtual Texture Design, Multi-texture Mapping/Bump/Environment Mapping, MIPMAP, Bilinear Filtering, Real-time Texture Decompression (S3TC), etc.

* Other Real-time Decompression of Display List, HW Motion Compensation Capability.

*The Gekko MPU integrates the power PC CPU into a custom, game-centric chip.

SOURCE OF SPECS WAS GAMESTOP WEBSITE.

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Gaming

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• nintendo
• gamecube
• review

[roygib09]

sorry but that alternate start-up sounds really gay

[afluffyman]

@roygib09 just like the reason im deleting your gay ass comment.

[Brianwwecw48]

the only system i have ever and still owned besides a nintendo 64 pretty good system even today dont have time for playing games much i probably got 20 games for this i will probably never own a next gen system the gamecube is still a good system and will always be one of the best

[afluffyman]

same dude but i got more gmae systems but i love my 64. how many games u got on 64?

[Brianwwecw48]

like 31

[afluffyman]

i got 53 hehe i got my 64 when i was4 in a half

[DavidKingBadass]

gamecubes support component HD, but not all gamecubes have a component input on the back, my purple/indigo one does, buy the older models for hd, itl have 2 seperate inputs on the back

[RevMaster101]

wait the z button secret thing.

the sound effects sound very familiar from a game i played years ago

[Rand0mR0b]

I thought Gamecube had a screen inside

[papercanfly]

i won't ;)