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Review: Intel P45: The New Chipset Lacks Progress : Eaglelake Has Landed
Posted on: 2008-07-10 15:30:19 By Patrick Schmid & Achim Roos, THG Intel’s chipset business is a well oiled machine. The firm has been releasing a new desktop chipset family every year right around Computex in June. This time, the P35 family (Bear Lake) is being replaced by the P45 series, code-named Eaglelake. The new chipset family consists of four different models (two with integrated graphics) and mainly introduces PCI Express 2.0 to the mainstream. Although there are several new features and improvements, we found that the sum of Intel’s changes is actually quite minimal. Read The Review Here |