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Comments on: AMD 780G integrated DirectX10.1 chipset

forget hybrid 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 13:46 GMT

sideband memory on the motherboard and overclocking the igp get much more result (j&w say the managed 2975 in 3d)

also forget the be series, the athlon 4850 at 45w or phenom 9150e at 65w will give a big boost (don't forget phenom comes with ht 3.0 which doubles the speed)

looks nice... 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 14:50 GMT

Linux

...cheap and cool. now, if they can just get linux graphics drivers on any distro other than Suse or Redhat, they can have the cash for my next machine.

Hybrid Crossfire 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 15:02 GMT

Alien

If hybrid crossfire is effective in using integrated graphics for the windows desktop, etc, and only enabling the graphics card for gaming - that'd be significant power savings and justify the usage of hybrid crossfire in a way your article did not cover.

@ unhuman 

Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 22:48 GMT

I think that's the angle nVidia are taking with their incarnation of Hybrid Crossfire, imaginatively named Hybrid SLI. Specifically the bit called HybridPower.

That and the Vista-only requirement make me think it is simply a feature of DX10.1 that both houses are trying to market as original.

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Another use for Hybrid would be... 

Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 10:04 GMT

A cheap multimonitor machine, right? With both inboard and dedicated graphics you can run up to 4 monitors with no multiplexers. We could use this for some workstations on our company.

so if I'm a gamer then... 

Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 10:39 GMT

its still the 8800GT all the way ?