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Integrated Graphics from NVIDIA Back In Style

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the old-made-new-again dept.

Hack Jandy writes "After a couple year of silence, AnandTech has confirmed that NVIDIA will be bringing back Integrated Graphics Processors this year. NVIDIA's last IGP chipset was based on nForce2 and received much praise all around. The new IGP, 'C51,' will be based on a stripped down version of nForce4 and includes PCI-Express. The article also goes into some detail about ATI's new IGP chipsets RS482 and RS410."

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  1. linux drivers? by pe1rxq · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wonder if they will release proper specs for it this time.....
    Last time they pretended their integrated ethernet controller had some super-secret part in it that had to be protected....
    For graphic controllers you might get away with such an argument (although I personally don't think it holds even there) but for a simple ehternet controller it just made them look stupid.

    Jeroen

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  2. Re:Big market by bWareiWare.co.uk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some nice numbers to back this up:
    http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/01/31/graphi cs_chips_q4_04/

  3. Re:you miss the point: nforce2 by Nytewynd · · Score: 2, Informative

    In my first post I had a typo. Where I said "...the motherboard I wanted didn't have AGP" I meant IGP.

    That was the point of my post actually. It is great to get an IGP mobo for most people. You can always upgrade later, but in the case of my server it would have been more than enough. Like you mentioned, it barely costs anything extra, so you might as well get it.

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  4. Re:What are you babbling about? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Even the Compaq non-standard machine I have here using an Intel i845 has an AGP slot. Every Dell machine with some form of IGP has an AGP slot. I've never seen a machine using IGP that doesn't have an AGP slot, apart from the Micro & Nano ITX boards from Via.