You know, Intel's had HDMI infs built in their GMA drivers since the god
damned i815 IGD, but never have I seen a retail board with HDMI output. Glad
to see that R&D money put to good use...
The G33's GMA 3100 doesn't have hardware T&L, but for those who are suckers
for punishment, you can enable games to run T&L in software mode.
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Subject: Re: [H] Integrated Intel graphics has come a long way...
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:15:27 +0000
The g33 chipset is no slouch. The only thing that intel is really missing
right now that DAAMITs has is a board with nice hdmi 1.3.
The moment Intel has that then its perfect. But the g33 is way better then
expected.
We just sent out 3 qx6800s on p35 boards. Talk about rock stable solid
performance.
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From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:51:15
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Subject: [H] Integrated Intel graphics has come a long way...
Been using a 965 board with the GMA x3000 IGD. Even though Quake 3 Arena is
8 years old, the fact I can play it at 1280x1024 32bpp at 82fps is amazing.
Of course it sucks for anything current but that is leaps and bounds better
than anything prior.
Intel just released a "pre-beta" XP driver for the x3000 that enables
*hardware* T&L. Its performance is about the same but you can now play
games
that you could not play prior on the IGD because they check for T&L.
Something modest like Temple of elemental evil plays great. They claim
Oblivion runs on it, but I am not that brave...
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?&DwnldID=13515
Though I'm now on greener pastures (8800 Ultra), it was a fun experiment
for
me, and the GMA stuff will only get better. The upcoming G35 chipset
partnered with the GMA x3500 is supposed to be a very capable hardware DX10
part. I have no doubt with the money Intel is pouring into their Larrabee
project that this nextgen GPU with 32(?!?!) cores will make NVIDIA and
DAAMIT sweat bullets.
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