Digital Home Thoughts: ExtremeTech - "Intel's New Integrated Graphics"

"The mere mention of integrated graphics is usually enough to send any PC game player into a fit. No matter whose integrated graphics solution you look at, the prognosis is not good: they're not nearly fast enough and don't have many of the important new features found in even the most inexpensive add-in cards. If all you plan to do is surf the Web, write e-mail, and maybe a do little word processing or spreadsheet work, the integrated solutions are fine. Just don't try to play a 3D game with them."



PC game player???? How about any power user. The new Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 improves earlier efforts, but is still far behind even older "add-in" video cards. Still, with sub $500 PCs, support for fully DirectX 9.0b compliant integrated graphics is very welcome.