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Microsoft XBox 360 Video Game Core System Custom, symmetrical, three-core CPU, each running at 3.2GHz; 500MHz ATI graphics processor; 512MB memory; built-in wireless Fusing powerful hardware, software, and services, Xbox 360 fully engages you in a gaming experience that is more expansive, dramatic, and lifelike, where the possibilities are limitless and your imagination knows no boundaries. Xbox 360 Core System delivers the same powerful gaming as Xbox 360 but starts with the basics and lets you expand at your own pace. It?s everything you need to hit the ground running. Plug in the console and the controller and you're playing. Then decide what extras you add?it's expandable to the full Xbox 360 experience. Console Wired Controller Composite AV Cable Play Games, Music, and Movies Xbox 360   Xbox 360 Core System Play Xbox 360 Games Yes   Yes Watch DVD movies and play music CDs Yes   Yes Connect an MP3 player and listen to music* Yes   Yes Connect a Digital Camera and view pictures* Yes   Yes Listen to music and view digital pictures from your Windows XP-based PC Yes   Yes Manage your family's entertainment choices with Family Settings Yes   Yes Expand Your Xbox 360 Experience Xbox 360   Xbox 360 Core System Use up to 4 wireless controllers simultaneously Yes   Yes Play an array of original Xbox games Yes   Hard Drive Required Save games and content Yes   Hard Drive or Memory Unit Required Game online over Xbox Live Gold** Yes   Hard Drive or Memory Unit Required Voice chat with friends and family over Xbox Live Yes   Headset and Hard Drive or Memory Unit Required * An array of MP3 players and Digital Cameras ** 1-month trial of Xbox Live Gold included  Processing Powerhouse The custom-designed Xbox 360 central processing unit (CPU) runs at a breakneck speed, thanks to its three separate core processors that clock in at 3.2 GHz each. Xbox 360 boasts a custom ATI graphics processor that clocks in at a blistering 500 MHz. If you want to get even more technical (and who doesn't?) Xbox 360 can take advantage of more than four times as many polygons as the original Xbox console, and more than four times (seeing a pattern here?) the number of pixels per second. The 512 MB of RAM in Xbox 360 is eight times more powerful than the original Xbox, in terms of simple arithmetic. The system RAM gives developers a unified memory architecture. Game creators decide how to partition it, and all of the hardware components (like the CPU and GPU) can access the memory. Hard Drive The elegantly styled hard drive is physically very small and detachable, but it still boasts a whopping 20 GB of space. The sheer amount of downloadable content that fits on such a hard drive is staggering, and now you can rip more music onto your hard drive and play your own tunes as a soundtrack in any Xbox 360 game. Smart Power Xbox 360 utilizes 48 parallel shader pipelines in the GPU that developers can optimize to get the performance they want. Developers tell the smart Xbox 360 which graphics engines to use to make visuals as sharp as they can be. The console depicts the vastness of a space fleet engaged in a battle hundreds of miles across or a single human face with equal aplomb. More than Games Xbox 360 is first and foremost a gaming machine, and the number of amazing launch games and the intense focus on the gamer's experience cannot be denied. But Xbox 360 is also the center of your digital entertainment world. Not only will it play DVDs, but the system supports CDs, DVD-ROMs, DVD-R/RW, MP3s, JPEGs, and more. Xbox 360 Online Xbox Live, the premier console online gaming service with more than two million members, is getting even better, with a huge new center of online commerce called Xbox Live Marketplace, and best of all, Xbox 360 is always online with your high-speed Internet connection. Xbox Live Silver, available to anyone with an Xbox 360 or Xbox 360 Core System console, a hard drive or a memory unit, and a broadband connection, provides many free features, including messaging and downloads. The second level of service?Xbox Live Gold, with the option to play multiplayer games online?costs the same as your original Xbox Live subscription. USB? U Bet! Xbox 360 boasts three multi-purpose USB ports (two in front, one in back), so there is almost no end to the various accessories and other pieces of hardware that will connect to the console and interact with it. The keyword here is versatility. You can connect and stream media from a wide range of portable music players and digital cameras, or stream your digital music, photos, and more from your connected PC with Microsoft Windows XP or Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition. No More Wires Wireless integration is one of the most important aspects of Xbox 360. Right out of the box, the lightweight wireless controller?in fact, up to four lightweight wireless controllers?connect instantly to the console with no other peripherals needed. Thanks to a cycling signal that avoids other wireless hardware in your house (such as telephones), there is never any delay between your thumb and the game. The wireless Xbox 360 controller is actually lighter than the wired Xbox Controller-S. Carry the wireless experience over to Xbox Live by plugging in the pocket-sized Wireless Networking Adapter. Gamers First Xbox 360 with the hard drive is backward-compatible for an array of original Xbox titles too, which means both original and Xbox 360 gamers will be able to play in the same matches online with Xbox Live.