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To: dr_elis who wrote (255347)8/7/2008 1:49:35 PM
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The problem with the ExtremeTech article is that they didn't run the X4500 against any competitive parts, or even the previous generation. They are merely negative because the games they used did not reach 30 FPS implied playability.

They also used only 4 games, including Crysis, which is the most intensive game out there. From what I've seen, not even the 780G gets playable frame rates in Crysis, or in DX10 enabled games.

Running the benchmarks relative to at least one other IGP chipset would help to see whether the other games are simply too intensive to play on integrated graphics in general. Getting a larger sample set would also see if these are simply pathological cases.

There seems to be an expectation that IGP graphics need to run all the newest games at certain minimal resolution and quality settings. If that were indeed the case, why would anyone but enthusiasts need to buy a discrete card?

There are 100s of games out there, and if a small subset are intensive enough that Intel's chipset can't run them, does that mean ExtremeTech was justified in their conclusion? I think their expectations, combined with a limited sample set and lack of relative measurements, have led them to a specious conclusion.
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