Intel® Graphics Technology

Making the most of your visual experience

Get stunning visual results from your mobile or desktop PC with Intel® Graphics Technology, including the full Microsoft Windows Vista* experience¹, beautiful video playback, and excellent mainstream gaming performance.

Intel Graphics Technology is built right onto your PC's motherboard, so you get excellent speed and functionality at low cost, compared to typical add-in graphics cards.

You want rich, vibrant color. You want smooth, crisp images. You want to play high-definition content at full resolution. You want cool realism when you play games on Microsoft Windows Vista.

Thanks to Intel Graphics Technology, that's not a problem. Whether you're shopping for a new notebook, a desktop PC, or a motherboard for a build-it-yourself system, make sure your PC integrates Intel Graphics Technology.

Invigorate your video

High-definition video has revolutionized entertainment, and you shouldn't have to settle for playback that looks less than stunning. Intel® Clear Video Technology, a suite of video enhancements built into Intel Graphics available on select chipsets², means you don't have to.

Intel Clear Video Technology brings you enhanced video playback, sharper images, precise color control, and advanced support for the latest HD displays. This outstanding video experience is available without an add-in video card.

The image on the left is improperly de-interlaced, causing colors to shift. The image on the right, with Intel Clear Video Technology, is sharp and clear.

• Read more about Intel® Clear Video Technology

Energize your gaming sessions

Make the leap into compelling game realism and life-like effects, enabling a cost-effective PC solution with built-in Intel® Graphics Technology.

Intel Graphics Technology supports the latest Microsoft DirectX* and 3D features such as Microsoft Shader Model 3.0* to enable stunning visual effects in games, such as object deformation, motion blurs, and complex animations with realistic shading, lighting, and textures.³

These 3D features are supported by the latest Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (Intel® GMA) software drivers.

• View the Intel® Graphics Technology game compatibility list

Get more for your money

With the dramatic improvements in Intel® Graphics Technology and Intel® processors, it's no longer necessary for most users to buy expensive add-on graphics cards. Users can pocket the difference, or spend the extra money instead on system enhancements like a more powerful CPU.

Intel Graphics Technology is an especially smart choice if you're looking for a value platform for Microsoft Windows Vista, because you get a great built-in graphics adapter capable of the full Microsoft Windows Vista experience.¹ Plus, this cost-effective solution is ideal if you're a mainstream PC user who needs broad, modern feature support.

Intel's solution allows the PC to connect to the latest digital display interfaces, including the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). HDMI carries uncompressed HD video and uncompressed multi-channel audio in a single cable.◊

Intel Graphics Technology powers the next generation of PC display technology. When you buy a PC with Intel Graphics, you get a cost-effective solution with the performance you need.

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Performance on demand

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology is one of the many exciting new features that Intel has built into latest-generation Intel® microarchitecture (codenamed Nehalem). It automatically allows processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.

Dynamically increasing performance

As an independent and complimentary feature, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) along with Intel Turbo Boost Technology increases performance of both multi-threaded and single threaded workloads. Intel Turbo Boost Technology is activated when the Operating System (OS) requests the highest processor performance state (P0).

The maximum frequency of Intel® Turbo Boost Technology is dependent on the number of active cores. The amount of time the processor spends in the Intel Turbo Boost Technology state depends on the workload and operating environment, providing the performance you need, when and where you need it.

Any of the following can set the upper limit of Intel Turbo Boost Technology on a given workload:

• Number of active cores
• Estimated current consumption
• Estimated power consumption
• Processor temperature

When the processor is operating below these limits and the user's workload demands additional performance, the processor frequency will dynamically increase by 133 MHz on short and regular intervals until the upper limit is met or the maximum possible upside for the number of active cores is reached. Conversely, when any of the limits are reached or exceeded, the processor frequency will automatically decrease by 133 MHz until the processor is again operating within its limits.

Internet: Meet Your New Intel Processor

New Intel® Server Processors Boost Speed, Efficiency, Add More Intelligence, Adapt to Energy Usage Needs

The news -- Intel Corporation introduced 17 enterprise-class processors today led by the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series. It is Intel's most revolutionary server processors since targeting the market with the Intel® Pentium® Pro processor nearly 15 years ago. The chips can automatically adjust to specified energy usage levels, speed data center transactions and customer database queries, and will play a key role in scientific discoveries by researchers who use supercomputers as their foundation for research, all while delivering great energy-efficiency for reduced electricity costs. The context -- The Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series represents a new era in computing. Intel helped spark the Internet revolution with the Intel Pentium Pro processor. Featuring new levels of intelligence and versatility, the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series will usher in an exciting era of innovation and discovery by enabling customers to tap new growth markets such as cloud computing, high performance computing and embedded systems. Why it matters -- As use of the Internet expands towards Intel's vision of 15 billion connected devices, the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series will also power an upcoming transformation for the Internet's infrastructure. The high-tech industry has rallied around a goal to run applications from optimized processors and computing hardware, which are available on demand and scalable to the masses. Often called cloud computing, this vision could flourish due to the adaptability, capability and intelligence of the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series. QUOTES "The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series is the foundation for the next decade of innovation," said Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. "These chips showcase groundbreaking advances in performance, virtualization and workload management, which will create opportunities to solve the world's most complex challenges and push the limits of science and technology." "Nehalem is a game changer in just about every way, especially performance. It overcomes most, if not all, the potential performance roadblocks associated with multicore configurations. It creates a foundation for future processors, and it resets performance expectations, especially for applications requiring high I/O or memory bandwidth." -- Jim McGregor, Industry Analyst, InStat "The London Stock Exchange recognises the importance of both low latency and latency consistency in the operation of efficient markets. We make extensive ongoing use of the Intel fasterLAB in order to evolve our core business applications and to test the effect of processor-level innovation. We have been able to see the immediate impact of the move to 45nm and scaling to the multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series and beyond. The fasterlab – being equipped with advanced testing facilities and Intel engineering expertise – is a significant asset to our ongoing software development programs." -- Robin Paine, Chief Technology Officer, London Stock Exchange "As one of the world's largest business and IT consultancy firms, Capgemini is asked by its clients to consult on improving their business performance while reducing costs. One of their primary concerns is the power consumption in the data centre. Capgemini evaluated the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series because the promised performance per Watt could help our clients reduce their concerns. Capgemini noticed an enormous performance increase up to 500%, while the power usage dropped a staggering 65%. As an example queries to a Microsoft SQL* database took just ten seconds, compared to three minutes on a previous generation Intel® Xeon® processor. Even older applications, not designed for multi-core processors are no challenge for this processor. The time for login sequences, went back from 40 seconds to just five. For Capgemini it is without doubt that this processor provides customers with increased performance while reducing energy costs." -- Arnold Verhoeven, Managing Consultant, Capgemini, Netherlands "Based on our benchmarks of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, we expect an increase in performance-per-Watt of about 30% or more, compared to the already very power-efficient combination of the previous generation Intel® Xeon® processors and the Intel 5100 (San Clemente) chipset. The new CPU is a strong candidate for highly demanding Physics applications." -- Helge Meinhard, Coordinator for Server and Storage Procurement at CERN-IT "It is a challenge to build a high performance computer that suits the different demands of our many research groups. Our new Sun* blade cluster powered by Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 series is a very well balanced system, tuned to highest performance. With 12 TB memory, a quad data rate Infiniband network and 160 TB fast parallel file system, we will be able to satisfy most of our users' demands for the next three to four years. The Sun* blades with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series also satisfied our energy consumption and TCO demands. Compared to our five-year-old cluster, the new platform provides more than 10 times the compute power for less than three times the energy consumption." -- Alexander Godknecht, CTO IT Services, University of Zürich "The European Space Agency (ESA) has recently been testing brand new systems based on the innovative new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Its unrivalled performance enables ESRIN, the ESA establishment in Frascati, Italy, to analyse and share large volumes of data collected by its satellites more quickly and efficiently via its Grid computing infrastructure. Early tests revealed that the new processor technology has reduced critical computational time, for example as requested for mapping of large flooded areas, by 50 percent." -- Luigi Fusco, Senior Advisor of Earth Observation Applications and GENESI-DR project coordinator at ESA

Intel Skulltrail supports SLI, Quad SLI

DURING COMPUTEX in June of this year, we were involved in a war of words with Nvidia when it came to Intel chipsets and SLI support. Nvidia's Head PR claimed that no SLI is in the works for Intel, our own Charlie claimed otherwise.

At this year's IDF, Steve Smith of Intel fame explained that Skulltrail is sporting support for dual, and even Quad graphics when Nvidia decides to work on the support of four graphics cards at the same time.

The motherboard shown below is the key part of Intel's gaming attack coming in late Q4 or perhaps Q1'08, if it slips during debug phase.

First real V8 motherboard for enthusiasts and professionals alike sport support for four graphics cards at the same time

You can see that this is not your server board model from the first generation of Intel's V8, but rather a true enthusiast motherboard with a nice amount of PCIe 2.0 slots for graphics cards. Sadly, it is based on first generation server chipset named Stoakley, so it supports only FB-DIMMs. However, other options speak alot to high-end enthusiasts, regardless of being from gaming or professional side of things.

GA-7VESH-RH

Available Now

• Supports dual Intel^®Xeon^® processors at FSB 1066/1333MHz with Intel^®5000V chipset
• Supports 8 Registered Fully Buffered DIMM 533/667MHz
• XGI^®Volari Z9S with 32MB DDR2 Memory
• One PCI-E x8 slot, one PCI-E x4, one two PCI-X 64/133MHz, and one PCI 32/33MHz slots
• Intel^® Virtualization Technology features native harware platform for various OS in one system
• Intel^®6321ESB supports six independant SATA controllers, each controller capable up to 3.0Gb/second transfer rate
• Intel^® SW RAID 0, 1, 10, 5(RAID 5 is for Windows only)
• Intel^® 82563 Gilgal GbE controller supports dual RJ-45 LAN connectors
• IPMI 2.0 Supports (optional)
• EATX Form Factor(12”W * 13”D)

Spezifikationen

Processor Supported	Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® (Woodcrest/Wolfdale) processors Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® (Clovertown/Harpertown) processors Supports 1066/1333MHz/Socket LGA771
Chipset Description	Intel® 5000V Intel® 6321ESB
System Memory	8 x ECC Registered FB-DIMM Supports up to 32GB 533/667 memory Dual Channel memory bus
Integrated Video Controller	XGI®Volari Z9s
Integrated SATA Controller	Intel® 6321ESB SATA 3.0Gbps Controller Supports 6 x SATA connectors
Support RAID Function	Intel® SW RAID 0, 1, 10, 5(Windows only)
Integrated Network	Intel® 82563 Gilgal GbE controller supports dual Lan ports
Integrated Super I/O Controller	ITE®IT8718F
I/O Connectors	2 x PS/2 2 x USB 1 x COM 1 x VGA 2 x RJ45
On-Board Connector	1 x ATA-100 connector 4 x USB connector 2 x COM connector 6 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connector
Expansion Slot	1 PCI-E x8 1 PCI-E x4 1 PCI-E x1 1 x PCI-X support 64/133MHz 1 x PCI supports 32/33MHz 1 x IPMI 2.0 (Optional)
Managementability (Optional)	IPMI 2.0 with GSMT Management Utility IPMI 2.0 : GC-MMDS-RH/GC-MMTS-RH iKVM : GC-MMTS1-RH
Board Dimension	EATX Form Factor 12"W x 13"D

GA-7VCSV-RH

Available Now

• Supports dual Intel^®Xeon^™ processors at FSB 667/1066/1333MHz with Intel^®5000V chipset
• Maximum 16GB Registered Fully Buffered DIMM 533/667MHz
• One PCI-E x8 slot, one PCI-E x4 (with x8 slot), one PCI-E x1 (with x4 slot) and two PCI-X 100~133MHz slots
• Intel^®6321ESB supports six independant SATA controllers, each controller capable up to 3.0Gb/second transfer rate
• Intel^® SW RAID 0, 1, 10, 5(Windows only)
• Dual Broadcom^® 5789 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers
• CEB 1.01 Form Factor(12”W * 10.5”D)

Spezifikationen

Processor Supported	Dual Intel® Xeon™ (Dempsey/Woodcrest) processors Supports 667/1066/1333MHz/Socket LGA771
Chipset Description	Intel® 5000V Intel® 6321ESB
System Memory	4 x ECC Registered FB-DIMM Supports up to 16GB 533/667 memory Dual Channel memory bus
System BIOS	Phoenix® Server BIOS, 8Mb ROM
Integrated Video Controller	XGI®Volari Z7
Integrated SATA Controller	Intel® 6321ESB SATA 3.0Gbps Controller Supports 6 x SATA connectors
Support RAID Function	Intel® SW RAID 0, 1, 10, 5(Windows only)
Integrated Network	Dual Broadcom® 5789 GbE
Integrated Super I/O Controller	ITE®ITE IT8718 with HW Monitor
I/O Connectors	2 x PS/2 4 x USB 1 x COM 1 x VGA 2 x LAN RJ45
On-Board Connector	2 x ATA-100 connector 6 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connector
Expansion Slot	1 PCI-E x8 1 PCI-E x4 (x8 slot) 1 PCI-E x1 (x4 slot) 2 x PCI-X support 64/100~133MHz 1 x PCI supports 32/33MHz
Board Dimension	CEB 1.01 Form Factor 12"W x 10.5"D

GA-7VCSE-RH Coming Soon

Coming Soon

• Supports dual Intel^®Xeon^® processors at FSB 1066/1333MHz with Intel^®5000V chipset
• Supports 6 Registered Fully Buffered DIMM 533/667MHz
• XGI^®Volari Z9S with 16MB DDR2 Memory
• Two PCI-E x8 slot, one PCI-E x4, one two PCI-X 64/133MHz, and one PCI 32/33MHz slots
• Intel^® Virtualization Technology features native harware platform for various OS in one system
• Intel^®6321ESB supports six independant SATA controllers, each controller capable up to 3.0Gb/second transfer rate
• Intel^® SW RAID 0, 1, 10, 5(RAID 5 is for Windows only)
• Intel^® 82563 Gilgal GbE controller supports dual RJ-45 LAN connectors
• IPMI 2.0 Supports (optional)
• CEB 1.1 Form Factor(12”W * 10.5”D)

Spezifikationen

Processor Supported	Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® (Woodcrest/Wolfdale) processors Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® (Clovertown/Harpertown) processors Supports 667/1066/1333MHz/Socket LGA771
Chipset Description	Intel® 5000V Intel® 6321ESB
System Memory	6 x ECC Registered FB-DIMM Supports up to 24GB 533/667 memory Dual Channel memory bus
System BIOS	Phoenix® Server BIOS, 8Mb ROM
Integrated Video Controller	XGI®Volari Z9s
Integrated SATA Controller	Intel® 6321ESB SATA 3.0Gbps Controller Supports 6 x SATA connectors
Support RAID Function	Intel® SW RAID 0, 1, 10, 5(Windows only)
Integrated Network	Intel® 82563 Gilgal GbE controller
Integrated Super I/O Controller	ITE®IT8718
I/O Connectors	2 x PS/2 4 x USB 1 x COM 1 x VGA 2 x RJ45
On-Board Connector	1 x ATA-100 connector 1 x Floppy connector 2 x USB connector 6 x Serial ATA 3Gb/s connector
Expansion Slot	1 PCI-E x8 1 PCI-E x4 (x8 slot) 1 PCI-E x4 1 x PCI-X support 64/100~133MHz 1 x PCI supports 32/33MHz 1 x IPMI 2.0 (Optional)
Managementability (Optional)	IPMI 2.0 with GSMT Management Utility IPMI 2.0 : GC-MMDS-RH/GC-MMTS-RH iKVM : GC-MMTS1-RH
Board Dimension	CEB 1.1 Form Factor 12"W x 10.5"D