Intel G965 X3000 benchmarks?

[therealnickdanger]

Motherboards featuring this chipset have been available from Newegg for a while, but there are no reviews from customers. When searching online for reviews, I can only find links to forums where people talk about how the GMA950 outperforms it, but they are referring to software-mode benchmarks. I searched for both "X3000" and "G965" on this forum and found nothing...

Has this chipset/IGP been blacklisted by the entire tech community? I expected AT to be all over this chipset like white on rice - at least with preliminary numbers... Did Intel not release any drivers for this thing? Is that why they are now open-source? Sorry for all the questions, but for such a seemingly important step forward in Intel's IGPs, there is barely any substantial data available anywhere that I look.

 

[IntelUser2000]

The driver is definitely not ready for G965 chipset. Final driver is supposed to be 14.26 but there is still only 14.24 version available to public. I can also imagine Intel is limiting supply of the chipset purposely until the driver is final. I see in stores that the motherboards will be available mid to late september. That may explain why almost no hardware sites have the review.

 

[JACKHAMMER]

Bumpity. Trying to see if I would be able to hold out until the dx10 cards.

 

[varkey]

the x3000 is good enuf for casual gamers. im getting 20-25 fpx for hl2 all setting high 1024*768

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: IntelUser2000
The driver is definitely not ready for G965 chipset. Final driver is supposed to be 14.26 but there is still only 14.24 version available to public. I can also imagine Intel is limiting supply of the chipset purposely until the driver is final. I see in stores that the motherboards will be available mid to late september. That may explain why almost no hardware sites have the review.

14.25 is available now.

i've done a few benchmarks on 14.21 and 14.25 which i put here.


the 14.25 is like 40% faster, but then agian its still crap.

if 14.26 gives say a 50% boost more, then it might be just about as fast as as ay a 7100gs or something slow like that.

i am using it right now since my video card had a problem. it can just barely run eve online, and really slowly at 1680x1050. granted thats a pretty high res, but i would not try playing at that res for say an FPS.

 

[IntelUser2000]

If they do indeed become 50% faster on 14.26 drivers it'll be a decent(integrated) graphics. On Core 2 Duo CPU based systems, 945G performs not so far from the Xpress 200 based systems(945G scales well with CPU, due to the lack of any geometry processing on hardware).

That's the thing about integrated graphics. They can become best by far out of the integrated chipsets, but is still too far away from even value graphics cards that are dedicated.

That said, being a Geforce 7100 with good support would be a vast improvement over the current GMA950 with lack of good support for modern games.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: IntelUser2000
If they do indeed become 50% faster on 14.26 drivers it'll be a decent(integrated) graphics. On Core 2 Duo CPU based systems, 945G performs not so far from the Xpress 200 based systems(945G scales well with CPU, due to the lack of any geometry processing on hardware).

That's the thing about integrated graphics. They can become best by far out of the integrated chipsets, but is still too far away from even value graphics cards that are dedicated.

That said, being a Geforce 7100 with good support would be a vast improvement over the current GMA950 with lack of good support for modern games.

yes definitely.

that would probably work for the "light" gamer. the person who just plays olderish games.

i mean if you think about it a 7100 would be fine playing say world fo warcraft or sims 2 or counterstrike source , eve online etc.

i would say that if it could be 50% faster (and concievably it could) at 14.26 it would satisfy the needs of more people than integrated graphics currently does. especially if ddr2-800 memory comes down in price relative to dd2-533 , that would probably give it another 15% boost due to memory bandwidth. perhaps next year when ddr2 hopefully drops down in price (is it just me or was 2gb of ddr2-667 $100 about 8 months ago?)