Every spring Intel launches a series of new chipsets with updated features. This year Intel has missed a spring launch and has thus launched their new products during the summer time. Unlike last years launch of the 875P that brought support for 800 MHz FSB, Dual Channel DDR, AGP 8X, and SATA RAID, this years update brings on a whole lot more. This years summer introductions brings on a whole new platform that introduces PCI Express, DDR2, High Definition Audio, supposed WiFi, LGA775/Socket-T, heatsink retention mechanism, and power supply connectors.

In the past, Intel has provided test kits for their launches roughly a month ahead of time. This launch, on the other hand has been rough for a plethora of sites. While a few sites received their kits a month ahead of time, a great amount of sites didn?t get their test kits till last week or early this week. To further complicate things, roughly 30 power supplies weren?t sent and Enermax was closed for launch week. To further piss off the media, Intel chose a 12AM Saturday launch, which is very strange; considering most Intel launches are on Mondays at 12AM, effectively Sunday night. This prevents our media friends from going out on a Friday night and getting drunk off their asses or partying; which makes a grumpy media person. Normally, Joel and I would cover launches for our independent sites; Sudhian and AcceleNation, but for this launch, we?ve decided to cooperate and do a joint article.

This first article you?re seeing will be written by me and will cover the chipset features, integrated graphics performance, and High Definition audio. In another article that?ll be going up a few hours after this is published Joel?s article covering DDR2, PCI-Express, and SATA AHCI performance will go up.

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• Chipset features, Socket T... (1 of 9)
• DDR2, PCI Express Graphics... (2 of 9)
• Chipset diagram, boards... (3 of 9)
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900... (4 of 9)
• Test setup, comments... (5 of 9)
• Graphics performance... (6 of 9)
• Frame buffer scaling... (7 of 9)
• DVMT scaling... (8 of 9)
• Conclusion (9 of 9)