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Sam
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25th Mar 10 at 08:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Apparently the Intel Core i5 650 has a graphics controller built into the CPU?

Presumably it uses system RAM to allocate as video RAM, right? How much of this does it use? I can't seem to find any information on this, even on Intel's own website.

Just doing a spec for my next PC build and wasn't sure how the above works (and whether to still have a separate graphics card or not).
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im not sure you right, i would of thought the northbridge chipset would handle the onboard gfx.
What your looking at there is just the CPU on its own and not the motherboard chipset.
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ok ignore me, the site says integrated. Is that mistake?
Also would depend on the motherboards threshold. Some of the new ones can use up to 1gb. I beleive there is a way of throttling the amount used though, which would be quite handy.

[Edited on 29-03-2010 by Reedy]
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The i5 series (530 - 750) have an Intergrated Graphics Processor, however you need to use a H55 chipset motherboard to use the IGP otherwise a P55 (etc) chipset motherboard will still require a dedicated graphics card. And yes it uses system ram, which iirc you can adjust in the BIOS. It's aimed at desktop/HTPC (onboard HD decoder/encoder) users rather than gamers.

Few links -
http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-650-660-661-review-test/1
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/intel_core_i5_661/
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Yeah I have spec'd up a PC with a H55 chipset motherboard, I just wasn't sure how much RAM I could make available to the graphics processor.

Thanks for the replies

 
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