[HKEPC] Intel Core i3 Clarkdale Review: 32nm + GPU Inside

[RejZoR]

I don't think that is the point. Every computer I have every had at work had intergrated Intel graphic chips, and my company has literarly thousands of these types of PCs. The floor I'm working on right now has at least 30 PCs on it, and all of them have integrated graphics. It may not be good enough for games, but it works just fine for my job and the hundreds of people in my building running Office apps. This is the market they are going after and it will be quite large.

What difference does it make to integrate that if GMA950 could do just the same? I mean rendering 2D elements on desktop...
By integrating GPU into CPU core, you'd expect dramatic improvement, but it hardly justifies anything. For home users it's still better to buy i don't know, GeForce 8400GS for sub 30 eur price and be able to play most of stuff pretty well.

[Drwho?]

Drivers are something intel is not good at. Hope this changes with the i3 but most likely they are more focused on Larabee than i3 at this point of time.

don't have to choose between GMA or Lrb ... both will be nice.

[dinos22]

There might be something like this to use the Clarkdale IGP on P55 boards:


Does anybody know for sure if H55 boards will support Lynnfield ?

oh interesting
francois can you confirm this
how much will these cost?

[Drwho?]

oh interesting
francois can you confirm this
how much will these cost?

I don t know, and If i did , I got to kill you after i say it ... lol

[kiwi]

Any i3 should work with current P55 boards even if I don't want IGPU, no?

[570091D]

i wonder why charlie thought its going to be so great...

because he's full of cr@p.

as are the graphics of these new chips. we didn't expect much else, this isn't news...

[Tao~]

does arrandale have the same GMA as this chip (underclocked is still the same) ?
If there's even 10-15% improvement over this with new drivers as the Intel man says, its a very good chip IMHO, specially with same price tag as a P8600.

[DeathReborn]

oh interesting
francois can you confirm this
how much will these cost?

They've been around for years, it's the ADD2 cards. They're around $10-20 on ebay in PCIe x16 flavours. Works with most IGP's but unknown if it'll work with clarkdale though. If it supports Intel SDVO then it should work.