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  • SunAngel - Saturday, June 14, 2008 - link

    So, from what I read, I can by a G45 board, throw in a Celeron 440 (2.0GHz, 800FSB, Single-core) and run 1080p 50/60 HDTV and Blu-ray with no problems what-so-ever. If true, this is great for the pocket-book. $150 for a DG45ID board, $55 for a Celeron 440, $35 for a 1GB DDR2-800, $40 for a 80GB HDD, $170 for Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive, $75 for a nice, tiny, mATX case, and $150 for two ATSC TV tuner cards. More than fair pricing for a Media Center PC.
  • burfi - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    I was very much interested in pairing an E7200 with the DG45FC "Fly Creek" Mini-ITX, until I learned about the 24W TDP for the G45/G43 from Intel's documents. Now I'm in doubt, as I consider that rather excessive and hard to cool in that form-factor. Price below 150$ or 100€ is attractive though.

    And yes, this article indeed reads like slightly massaged Intel marketing material.
  • strmbkr - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    I agree.

    24W? Doesn't AMD's 780G chipset consumes only 10W (or was that the 790G?)? and in idle only 0.95W?

    "AMD claims idle power consumption of the IGP is just 0.95W!"
    http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_780g_overc...">http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_780g_overc...

    Intel is Apple's Padawan now me thinks.
  • Karlzbad - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    So when are we going to see these babies in stores in the US? Nobody seems to know anything about them.
  • ilkhan - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    Could you answer, in the first or second paragraph, this simple question?
    "Whats the difference between the P45 and the P43?" Since I presume that the G43 and G45 and just the P4x version + graphics. So, whats the difference?
  • kjboughton - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    P45 does 1x16 and 2x8 PCI-E lane configurations whereas P43 only does 1x16. G45 and G43 are like P43: 1x16 only, here though they are differentiated by the integrated GPU "type" (more like G43 has had some HD features locked). G45 is GMA X4500HD and G43 is GMA X4500. According to Intel each handles hardware-accelerated Bru-ray content so to tell you the truth the differences in the capabilities of the GPUs is still somewhat unknown.
  • ilkhan - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    Reading through again (with P45 highlighted, all 7-8 occurances) the only difference I see is that the P45 can be set for 2x8 PCI-E lanes. Great, except the G45 cant do that, so its not the difference. Humbug.
  • Visual - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    I am anxious to see the integrated graphics performance in comparison to the latest AMD and nVidia chipsets.
    I hope AOpen will release a new version of their MiniPC with this new chipset soon. Will make a great gift for my dad.
  • formulav8 - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    Intel is supposely claiming near AMD Chipset video performance. They had along ways to go to get their trash up to that high of speed. So I would bet they are simply using 3DMark 06 as a indication, but in actual games its still pathetic.

    But you never know I quess. I would be somewhat shocked if it did rival AMDs.

    Last I heard Intel didn't even have DX10 drivers yet?


    Jason
  • CSMR - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    Good news article with some new information. Nehalem is 45nm? Fast progress, one chipset die shrink after another.
  • Visual - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    Um... it's a CPU not a chipset. But with integrated memory controller, so that may be why you got confused.
    It naturally will come paired with a new chipset too, but I'd not expect that to be 45nm.
  • CSMR - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    Oh yes, that was why I got confused, these functions will be in the cpu not the chipset.
  • DeepThought86 - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    This reads like a massaged press release rather than an independent report!
  • JarredWalton - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - link

    We http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3309">previewed P45 performance a few weeks ago, and today was the official launch. It sounds as though Gary, Kris, and Raja have not had a chance to fully test any final revision hardware yet, so this is more of a press release piece highlighting some of the new features of P45.

    In truth, there's not a whole lot different from P35, other than lower power use and support for 2x8 CrossFire. Performance looked similar, but final silicon and board revisions could improve that area somewhat. I'd also think cooler running should result in better overclocking, but that will probably take some time as BIOS revisions and tuning matures.

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