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i845_G mobo has AWESOME integrated video!

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bluemax

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Anandtech @ CeBIT

I can't believe it... Intel's new integrated video for the P4+DDR (i845G) is about the same speed or faster than the GF2 Ultra (or GF4MX 440) We should start seeing them very soon, too!

That's awesome - it raises the bar for games too, because unlike the nForce, EVERYONE's gonna' be using this! Especially OEM vendows like Dell. The Dell 4400 system for example... It'll happen - Dell jumped in on the i845DDR the very month it was available! I have no doubt in my mind it'll happen again. All of a sudden they won't be selling many ATI Rage128"ultra" or GF2MX cards anymore. 😉



<< The most interesting thing at the DFI booth was not displayed to the public, but shown only in a back room: A running 845G-based motherboard. Almost all motherboard manufacturers showed 845G motherboards, but DFI were the only ones to show a running board, so that the 3D features of the 845G could be judged. The computer with this board was running side-by-side with a similarly equiped PC with a GeForce4 MX 440. Both PCs were running Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The game didn't run quite as smooth on the 845G's integrated graphics core as on the GeForce, but it came very close - DFI stated that once the drivers for the 845G were more mature, the performance could be identical. This remains to be seen; but even in the current state we can say that the 845G's integrated graphics core is far superior to previous to the graphics cores on previous Intel chipsets. >>

 
Ya because the GF2TI is SOOOOOO much faster then a GF2MX 😛

Edit: Now that you've updated your post lets make that "since a GF2MX440 is soooooo much faster then a GF2MX400 😛 "

Not to mentions Intel's awesome graphics drivers (NOT!) 😛

Thorin
 
i845G = no dual channel
nForce = dual channel

nForce's integrated graphics core will perform better. Period. I wish Intel made a dual channel version of their i845G chipset, that would be awesome...
 
Just because they don't necessarily have a lot of bandwidth (nothing is known right now for sure about that) doesn't mean that Intel can't make a good integrated video motherboard. They might be using HSR or somesort of hardware trick to get good framerates.

Right now all we can do is wait and see the benchmarks. I personally look forward to anything that raises the bar even if the technology isn't the latest and greatest.

 
I'm thinking the video card in that board is related to the 830M from the mobile P3 chipset. Yes the graphics core is much improved over 815. It can access up to 48 meg of system memory. It can even have a 400 mhz direct access bus to its own memory (RDRAM???). But to this date no laptop manufacturer has used additonal memory and continues to use system memory for the 830M, thus the video performance is extremely poor. And judging by the amount of manufacturers that used the 815 with addtional memory it doesn't look likely to happen either for the 845G. Either way it is terrible. But I am happy intel is at least trying to improve graphics. That's a good thing overall isn't it?
 
Dont you love how people talk about hardware that they don't know how it works.

Sure it could work like previous integrated solutions, but it could also work differently. But I know for DAMn sure that if you get integrated video that plays RTCW like a PC with a GeForce 4 MX440 (which isnt too shabby itself) than there has to be some magic.
 
SIS will have out a dual channel p4 chipset w/ integrated SIS 330 core sometime relatively soon i imagine...then we'll see what's up.

although this will certainly be good news if intel can get that integrated graphics core pushing GF4 MX level performance.
 
I'm wondering who'll be at the markeyplace first....
SiS with its new graphics solution which they plan to imbed into the chipset as well, or
Intel with this "miracle of engineering" i845G. 😉

Basically, who will win the ever-coveted "Best Internal Graphics" Award so people can have cool lan-gaming-boxes the size of two stacked CD-ROM drives. 😉
 
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