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Chipsets
There's a slew of new motherboard chipsets, too, dubbed GM45, GM47 or PM45. The GM45 and GM47 both have a high-speed 1,066MHz front side bus — basically a lightning-quick highway for transferring data between the memory and the CPU — and will support DDR2 and — for the first time — DDR3 memory, which has a higher peak throughput than previous memory technologies.
Both chipsets will feature Intel's new X4500 HD integrated graphics adapter, which has integrated HDMI and DisplayPort. Both are also DirectX 10-compliant, but if games are important to you, opt for the GM47, since that has a slightly faster graphics core — 640MHz versus 533MHz.
The aforementioned PM45 chipset supports all the same features, but lacks an integrated graphics adapter. It'll therefore be the chipset of choice for high-end gaming laptops, and will come with either ATI or Nvidia graphics solutions.
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02/07/2008 05:17 PM
None of those links work, all I get is a network timeout
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