lol what, you guys got excited by intel docs about i3 igp performance? LOL...
come on guys, what do you trust more, some mfc doc claiming huge gains but being very vague about it, or some hw enthusiasts that actually benched and reviewed an actual i3 igp system?

doesnt anybody remember how intel initially claimed i3 igp perf will be ~2.5x faster than G45?
now its suddenly only ~50% more... yet you still trust those intel slideshows?

and this from anandtech:
While G45 had 10 shader cores, the 'dale GPU increases that to 12
OMG! 20% more shader cores

about anandtechs preview... argh...


come on anand! you know better than that! i3 isnt 2 chip, its still 3 chip just that the igp/imc has been merged to one chip and is sitting next to the cpu silicon on the cpu package... why? to kill of ati and nvidia igp chipset by basically making them impossible as the only io to and from the cpu is a crippled 4x pciE 1.1 bus aka dmi...
its not 2 chips, its 2 packages at best...



i3 drop in compatible with 1156 i7 800 and i5 700 series??? thats nothing but a lie from intel right there!
i3 needs a third pwm block for the GMCH, the igp/imc chip that sits next to the cpu chip on the cpu package...
far from every 1156 board has this, plus you need bios support too, i3 has a diferent imc than i5 and i7 and needs more than a basic bios update to work properly...