What do we do with the 360?
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The PS3 is not particular low power at 380 Watts, just add a £50 Blu Ray drive to a £200 small form factor PC with a £3 DVI -> HDMI converter. Software is as cheap as you want it with open source choices and 120mm fans are as quiet as the PS3.
The PS3 is probably the better choice for simplicity but the PC option is nowhere near as bad as your making it out to be.
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Can't find anywhere which says it's running at 380Watts - 200Watts is all I can find and that's for the older models
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-356-2.htm
iirc the new 80GB model has the 65nm chips in it which use less power still.
That's it's peak usage, as in, in order for it to drain that much it has to be under 100% load. The idle usage in XMB (and probably quite similar to the streaming usage) is around the 180W mark.
Cheers Streeteh, during DVD upscaling doesn't the PS3 run at 100% load?
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So seems like a SFF PC would still use a lot less power, but this isn't really a point worth pursuing in the grand scheme of things.
From another forum:
So seems like a SFF PC would still use a lot less power, but this isn't really a point worth pursuing in the grand scheme of things.
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I doubt it's 100% even up scaling to 1080p, my reasons for this assumption would be:
The Cell takes the brunt of the load for up scaling iirc
The Bluray drive won't be spinning at full pelt like it would when loading a game
While playing demanding games like MGS4/DMC4 the fans in my PS3 sometimes speed up, this has never happened to me while up scaling indicating lower overall usage.
Keep in mind for what would be classed as 100% load on the PSU the bluray drive, HDD, GPU and CPU would all need to be going at pretty much full pelt at the same time. At least i hope Sony have taken that into consideration when deciding what wattage PSU to use or else the even more demanding games in the future could make it asplode.
[EDIT] But as your post above has already stated, a half decent media PC will use less powah than the PS3.
Hmm, is it possible to have a small formfactor PC that accepts commands from a remote?
I particularily like the idea of PS3's bluetooth remote - means I can control the music whilst on my patio
very possible:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...oft Media Centre Remote Controller (A9O-00001)
though it isn't blutooth i'm afraid.
Hmm, it seems that there are a few bits of python script that can deal with the PS3 controller but it is described as a 'dirty hack'
TBH, having just thought about how it would work, I'd imagine it would be fairly simple - there are only so many buttons on the remote and then just write something to convert them into commands. If I wasn't so damned lazy and incompetent I'd have done it myself.
TBH, having just thought about how it would work, I'd imagine it would be fairly simple - there are only so many buttons on the remote and then just write something to convert them into commands. If I wasn't so damned lazy and incompetent I'd have done it myself.