Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs Will Play Blu-ray 3D

[Azriel4444]

Everyone is pushing 3d way to hard. Its too expensive for most consumers and will not get adopted anytime soon.

 

[dEAne]

Sandy Bridge is not really that great it still needs some improvement.

 

[techguy378]

[citation][nom]djhg2000[/nom]There is a single reason to why I prefer Intel over nVidia or AMD, and it's called open source Linux drivers.I really hate holding back my kernel version until the proprietary driver supports it.[/citation]
Open source AMD graphics drivers with full 3D hardware acceleration already exist for Linux. For many AMD GPU's 3D hardware support is no longer considered experimental. This includes the Radeon 4770 as well as the Radeon 4650 GPU's and possible many more recent AMD parts. It's not just Intel who's embracing Linux and the open source community.

 

[nxym]

[citation][nom]winner4455[/nom]Wait....How do you know?[/citation]

Obviously Because Zoe doesnt look like a whore

 

[eddieroolz]

ntel's best attempt at a horrible, outdated IGPs yet.

 

[the_wolf88]

We need an IGP which give us the possibility to play modern games at descent at least !

Intel won't give you this even after billion years !

 

[arges86]

what, do people not have graphics cards anymore/ IGP in the motherboard?

hell, my mothers notebook can play blu-ray movies... if she only knew what they were.

 

[theoutbound]

I'm liking the early information on Sandy Bridge, but I'm not at all impressed with the 3D. It adds very little to the viewing experience while adding a great deal of cost. I'll pass until every company start shoveling the 3D stuff into every product they release and I don't have a choice.

 

[danbfree]

[citation][nom]techguy378[/nom]Since the Core 5 processors with integrated graphics are built the same way the Pentium Pro was how did Intel reduce manufacturing costs? Or did they? With the Pentium Pro processor Intel couldn't test the L2 cache memory until AFTER the processor was fully built. Then they had to throw out the CPU if the cache memory was bad. Doesn't Intel have to go through a similar process to test the integrated graphics core on the Core 5 processors?It sounds like the Sandy Bridge CPU's will cost substantially less to manufacturer.[/citation]

With the current i3, some of Intel's customers are using the i3 for CPU and bundle x4500 graphics with it (for example, my mom's HP laptop). My hunch is that the GPU portion of the Arrandale is faulty and Intel still makes money by selling those with an add-on x4500 chip. Win-win, Intel doesn't have to junk them and HP can claim it still has the new i3 on-board and offer it at a low price.

 

[techguy378]

[citation][nom]arges86[/nom]what, do people not have graphics cards anymore/ IGP in the motherboard?hell, my mothers notebook can play blu-ray movies... if she only knew what they were.[/citation]
Playing Blu-Ray movies or even regular DVD movies is very, very difficult for most hardware. I'm using my ATI Radeon 4770 graphics card for both video and audio over HDMI. My computer has an Intel DP43TF motherboard (P43/ICH10 chipset) and an Intel Quad Core Q9400 processor with 8GB DDR2 800 RAM and runs 64-bit Windows 7. With PowerDVD 9 Ultra build 2528 I frequently have problems with the audio and video not syncing. Yes, I do have full hardware video acceleration enabled and the problem occurs both when I bitstream Dolby Digital/DTS audio to my Denon AVR-591 receiver and when I have my Intel CPU convert high res Blu-Ray audio into PCM.

 

[Djhg2000]

[citation][nom]techguy378[/nom]Open source AMD graphics drivers with full 3D hardware acceleration already exist for Linux. For many AMD GPU's 3D hardware support is no longer considered experimental. This includes the Radeon 4770 as well as the Radeon 4650 GPU's and possible many more recent AMD parts. It's not just Intel who's embracing Linux and the open source community.[/citation]

True, but that's not my point.

A better way to put it would have been "Intel's main Linux driver is open source, while AMD seem to put more effort into their proprietary driver."