Op de officiële XBox site van Microsoft zijn de specificaties van de nieuwe spelcomputer stilletjes gewijzigd. Het gaat om de nVidia NV2A GPU, die op 250MHz gaat draaien in plaats van de eerder beloofde 300MHz. Als gevolg daarvan is het aantal polygonen gezakt naar 125 miljoen per seconde en zullen we het met een fillrate van 4 Gigapixels moeten doen. In ander XBox nieuws meldt DVD Insider dat Wolfson Microelectronics is gekozen als leverancier van de XBox' audio DAC chips:
The WM9709 is a high-quality stereo audio DAC (Digital to Analog converter), based on Wolfson's well proven multi-bit Sigma-Delta converter architecture. It combines cutting edge design technology with state-of-the-art sound quality. The WM9709 utilizes AC-Link architecture, as commonly used in most PC motherboards, customized with some novel technology to provide the Xbox with superior audio performance that will complement its unparalleled graphics capability.[break]Verder weet CNET te vertellen dat Microsoft de Ravisent Cinemaster software gaat gebruiken om de XBox DVD functionaliteit te geven, ze volgen daarmee het voorbeeld van de concurrentie:[/break]"We've studied the PlayStation 2 from a couple of perspectives to understand what consumers liked about it and what they didn't," McCann said. "One of the things we saw was that people using it to play DVDs were underwhelmed with both the quality and the user interface.
"Microsoft decided to make DVD an option and to really make it work for people who want that functionality."
Bedankt Kookie en GBits voor de tips.
As for the CD-ROM benchmark, I used CD Speed 99. I seemed to have encountered some problems while benchmarking the DVD and my HP CD-RW drives using this benchmark. It always reports a read-error while performing the Transfer Rate test and the Burst Rate test. So, I used an Audio CD to perform the test and it works! I won't really count on the accuracy but hey, poor results are better than no results right? 
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