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How much of an improvement over sandy bridge onboard is the 5770? I'm not sure there's £100 difference in it, but as I'm not a gamer I'm not certain.
Zotac customer support isn't so hot if this is a relevant consideration. Their official forums are worth a browse.
edit: Bigger issue, the motherboard is 1156 and the cpu is 1155. They wont work together. You're probably looking for a P67 motherboard (with overclocking but without onboard graphics), or a H67 board (with graphics but without overclocking).
Zotac customer support isn't so hot if this is a relevant consideration. Their official forums are worth a browse.
edit: Bigger issue, the motherboard is 1156 and the cpu is 1155. They wont work together. You're probably looking for a P67 motherboard (with overclocking but without onboard graphics), or a H67 board (with graphics but without overclocking).
That motherboard won't work. The only one that OcUK stock that will is the Foxconn H67-S. Swap it out or shop around - i've seen the Intel branded DH67CF about that will also work.
Apart from that it seems alright, apart from the fact that the Q11 case is sodding ugly.
Apart from that it seems alright, apart from the fact that the Q11 case is sodding ugly.
Only reasonably recently. Clarkdale added it last generation but those were quite rubbish, capable of only really driving a display and nothing else.
Sandy Bridge is another kettle of fish. There's two types on there - HD2000 and HD3000. The K series CPUs and the mobiles get HD3000, the rest get HD2000.
In terms of performance, they're much better. The HD3000 can rival a bottom end 3D card in gaming! It's really quite impressive, and the HD2000 isn't exactly miles behind. It's basically cut the end off the HTPC card market for nVidia and AMD.
There's also the AMD Brazos - benchmarks went up for that today. Although it's designed to rival Atom more than Sandy Bridge, if you're using the integrated graphics it runs the HD2000 graphics very very close at a fraction of the power usage.
No integrated graphics is going to rival the HD5770 though.
Sandy Bridge is another kettle of fish. There's two types on there - HD2000 and HD3000. The K series CPUs and the mobiles get HD3000, the rest get HD2000.
In terms of performance, they're much better. The HD3000 can rival a bottom end 3D card in gaming! It's really quite impressive, and the HD2000 isn't exactly miles behind. It's basically cut the end off the HTPC card market for nVidia and AMD.
There's also the AMD Brazos - benchmarks went up for that today. Although it's designed to rival Atom more than Sandy Bridge, if you're using the integrated graphics it runs the HD2000 graphics very very close at a fraction of the power usage.
No integrated graphics is going to rival the HD5770 though.
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Even the AMD Llano is supposed to have an IGP around the same speed as an HD5550.
It will be interesting to see how fast IGPs will be next year though.
It will be interesting to see how fast IGPs will be next year though.
