Intel® Extreme Graphics ? you kidding me?

[Bman]

Intel® Extreme Graphics card. I know this is a PC forum area. But i'm looking at buying a dell laptop and all they say about the graphics card is that it is a Intel® Extreme Graphics card.
Are these cards POS or worth anything?

[Kruno]

Intel + video card = STAY AWAY!

Unless of course you don't plan on playing games on it. :D

[B&R]

Intel makes mobile vid cards??:eek: :D

[yoladude]

DO NOT GET THAT LAPTOP. it will barely play the original unreal tournament at playable frates (i just use software rendering, cause it's faster). it will NOT run any new games; period. it barely runs alice, quake 3, and st: elite force. i repeat, IT IS *****E!

look for a higher-end laptop with radeon 9000, or 9600 mobility graphics, or a geforce4go 4200, or 5600 mobile graphics. those are decent.

i believe higher-end 8000 series dell laptops have decent hardware. look into those.

[Sotos]

Intel Graphic cards= :nutkick: :bs:

[GlowStick]

Originally posted by B&R
Intel makes mobile vid cards??:eek: :D yeah, they have huge marketshare, just under nvidia, above ati

[yoladude]

actually, they have the most marketshare:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20030801102103.html

"Intel appeared to be biggest winner of market share in the second quarter with 32%, up 5 points from 27% in the Q1 2003. Total shipments of NVIDIA Corporation’s declined slightly to 27% from 31% in the first quarter. ATI Technologies gained 1 point and now its share among all graphics products shipped in the second quarter accounts for 21%. Other suppliers of graphics products, namely SiS/XGI, 3Dlabs, Matrox Graphics, Trident and S3 Graphics/VIA, either lost less than 1% or stayed flat with the Q1 2003."

but nvidia holds the market share for add-in boards.

unless of course you meant mobile chips only.

[muzz]

Originally posted by GlowStick
yeah, they have huge marketshare, just under nvidia, above ati

For some reason I thought ATi ruled the mobile market.
I must've been mistaken, as I thought Inhell ruled the desktop integrated, and NV ruled Add-on boards ( with ATi catching up slowly).

[GlowStick]

Originally posted by muzz
For some reason I thought ATi ruled the mobile market.
I must've been mistaken, as I thought Inhell ruled the desktop integrated, and NV ruled Add-on boards ( with ATi catching up slowly). Hm, well i guess saying Intel Extreme Graphics is a bit ambigiuous, they use the same chip for Deskop/Laptop. Anyways, my whole college uses Intel Extreme Graphcis in both our desktops and lap tops heh.

it really dose suck.

[-=DVS=-]

and they dare to call it Extreme Graphics :o :rolleyes:

[GlowStick]

Originally posted by -=DVS=-
and they dare to call it Extreme Graphics :o :rolleyes: 2d is Extreme : D

[Skuzzy]

It's Extreme for them. All things are relative.

[reever2]

Originally posted by muzz
For some reason I thought ATi ruled the mobile market.
I must've been mistaken, as I thought Inhell ruled the desktop integrated, and NV ruled Add-on boards ( with ATi catching up slowly).

They do own the mobile market, they are somewhere in the 60 percent range

[Kombatant]

Originally posted by -=DVS=-
and they dare to call it Extreme Graphics :o :rolleyes:

That's because it's extremely frustrating for anything other than 2D :p

I have one in my laptop (Omnibook XE3). If you want to game on that laptop, steer clear. If you want it for 2D stuff, it's nice and cheap.

[StealthHawk]

Benchmarks of Intel "Extreme" Graphics for anyone who is interested: http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030903/integrated_graphics-14.html

As you can see, nForce integrated gf4mx blows it out of the water.

[ragejg]

3.2k for the I865G in 3dmk2k1...

= deus ex playable @ 8x6 or 10x7

=Q3 playable @ 8x6 or 10x7

=RTCW playable maybe?

=Oni Playable?

... I know, if yer gonna game, stay away from Intel Extreme... but if you're stuck with it, methinks there's still a selection of games that are playable and enjoyable on that class of hardware... Heck, I set up a Celly566 box with a GF2MX200 (1.3k 3dmarks) and found a plethora of games that the system could enjoy...

:)