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Review: Commell LV-670

by James Morris on 18 May 2003, 00:00

Tags: Commell

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Intel Extreme Graphics





Providing the graphics for this motherboard is the Intel Extreme Graphics solution which has been created for the 845 based chipset by Intel. This graphics solution is not a top of the range graphics card replacement but more of a lower end solution. Selling it as "extreme" is a bit borderline if you ask me but as you can see in the testing phase it can hold its own in games. For an onboard solution it is quite good although not up there with that found on Nvidia's nForce series though.

The features of this graphics solution are:

  • Rapid Pixel and Texel Rendering: Uses special pipelines that allow 2D and 3D operations to overlap to speed up visual effects without impacting system performance
  • Zone Rendering: Unique technology for drawing 3D scenes that optimizes performance between graphics and system functions.
  • Dynamic Video Memory: Dynamically allocates graphics memory as needed to balance memory usage among the operating system, applications, and graphics.
  • Intelligent Memory Management: Tiled memory addressing, deep display buffers, and dynamic data management assure efficient usage of memory.


Test System

  • Pentium 4 2.26GHz 533FSB CPU
  • 512MB of Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM
  • Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB Hard Drive
  • Chyang Fun CF-668 Mini-ITX case
  • 150 Watt p4 Power Supply
  • Windows XP OS