Intel video

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:57:58PM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > Intel only does onboard video built in to the chipset/cpu.  They many
> > years ago made the i740, which was a disaster.  They stopped trying.
> 
> So what I really need is a motherboard.

And cpu with support for it.

That's the tricky bit.  Only Core i3 and some i5 chips have a video core.
Without it, the video connector on the mainboard won't work.  That is
not how things were in the past.  I don't believe any desktop i7 chips
have video, and I don't think the quad core i5s do either.  I think only
dual core i3 and i5 chips have video cores.

For some reason you can get onboard intel video with a quad core i7
mobile chip in a laptop though.  Not sure whether they are done
differently or not.

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Len Sorensen
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