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  xboxBuying an Xbox 360 Without Inheriting the Red Ring of DeathThe most honest number on a used Xbox 360 isn't the asking price — it's the amp rating printed beside the power socket. Flip the console over. 16.5A means a launch-era Xenon, 14.2A means a Falcon, and 12.1A means a Jasper — the one revision of the original "fat" 360 that runs cool enough to trust. Microsoft built these machines by the tens of millions across half a dozen motherboard revisions, and from the outside they're all the same white or black wedge. The label is where the truth lives. E
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  playstationWhy PS3 Collectors Check the Model Number FirstFlip a fat PS3 over and read the sticker before you even glance at the disc tray. Those five characters — CECHA, CECHB, CECHC — decide what your library even is, because the PS3 is the rare console where the hardware revision matters more than most of the games it plays. Why collectors read stickers, not spec sheets The Japanese and North American launch units — the 60GB CECHA and 20GB CECHB from November 2006 — carry actual PlayStation 2 silicon on the board: the Emotion Engine CPU and Graph
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  KonsolitThe Sega Dreamcast: The Console That Died Too SoonSeptember 9, 1999. Sega spent the day chanting "9/9/99" like a marketing incantation, and for once the hype was earned. The Dreamcast landed in North America with a launch lineup that actually mattered, a 128-bit Hitachi SH-4 CPU, and a built-in 56k modem nobody else was brave enough to bundle. It was the first console of the sixth generation, and it beat the PlayStation 2 to market by more than a year. And then it was gone. Sega pulled the plug on hardware in early 2001, barely 18 months into