Xbox 360 Processor Ibm

Can i put the Xbox 360 processor in a computer?

does anyone know if its possible to put a Xbox 360 processor in a computer and have it run like a computer running XP/Vista or Linux i was just wondering if its possible and if anyone has tried to.

Well, you ask a technical question, so you should expect a technical answer. *Technically*, the XBox 360 *is* a computer: it has a motherboard and CPU, hard drive(s), a DVD drive, an ATI Xenos graphics card with 512MB of RAM and runs a modified version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

However, the CPU is a modified version of an IBM PowerPC chip: a triple-core processor called the Xenon. I was not able to discover if it is interchangeable even within the XBox console (it may be soldered permanently to the motherboard), but even if you could pop it out, I do not know of a “standard” computer motherboard that would accept it, or if boxed copies of Windows would run on it.

You’d have a better chance (but still no guarantee) of getting the (modified) Pentium-III chip out of an original XBox. However, with all of the P-4 and AMD-based alternatives out there, and prices as low as they are, there would seem to be little reason to do so.

An interesting idea, but you’d likely have to have the skills and resources to build your own motherboard and a code license from Microsoft (to have access to the Windows source code, which would need to be modified for this “unexpected” CPU) in order to get it done. Is it “possible”? Yes. Is it *feasible*? No.

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