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Integrated Graphics from NVIDIA Back In Style
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."
This is awesome news.
one thing good about igp's is that you don't need to upgrade all your shit at one time. buy a mobo now, and use the igp until you find the video card you want at a nice price. Also if your video card screws up you can use the igp as a backup. Even for troubleshooting the igp back in the nforce2 days saved me more than a couple of times.
And of course, sometimes the igp can cause conflicts or/and waste resources if not used so rememeber to disable it in the bios if you're not using it.
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Is not quick enough for games :)
Good when you want a computer for chatting, mail, programming, web, listen music, watch movies, etc.
But dont need to run the latest high-end games.
The wife's GF 4200TI croaked so I gave her my FX5900 and went back to the IGP (nForce2 IGP). The nice thing about the IGP is that it's there if you need it, you don't have to stuff it in a drawer when you don't need it and if you ever retire the machine from gaming, your power consumption goes way down without the 1337 g4m1ng card.
Now if nVidia would release drivers so my GF6200 AGP would work, I'd be back in business gaming under Linux again.
That's why I just caved and got a console. For the price of 1 gaming video card, you can get a console and a couple games. When you have to upgrade your video card every 6 months, and your entire computer every 3 years, it just stops being worth it. Maybe consoles don't have all the games I want, or they don't provide mice and keyboards for controlling FPSs. But at least it makes gaming affordable. This doesn't even mentiond dealing with all the incompatibility and driver issues associated with PC Games
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I guess nVidia was silent, not the AnandTech, right?
The IGP on my small form factor PC was one of the reasons I made the purchase. It was one less thing to worry about. I use my PC mainly for work, development, browsing and the like, with the occasional games and LAN party.
I had hoped to make good use of the IGP, but unfortunately, the manufacturer went cheap on the analog portion of the output. The screen was very blurry, and caused eyestrain trying to read text. I had to buy a cheap MX440 (a small upgrade, too, ok) to get rid of the bluriness. The output on the upgraded video card is very clear.
Attention manufacturers! Don't screw it up this time! If you're going to give us decent integrated graphics and use it as a selling point, don't skimp on the outputs, play it off, and force us to upgrade anyways!
(BTW, the SFF system is a Shuttle SN41G2 from a couple of years ago; Shuttle support did not acknowledge me when I asked about the poor video output/bluriness.)