Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP Review Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP Review

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Sunday, March 12, 2006

Article: Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP Review (Mature for Business Segment)

Target Audience: E (N=Newbie, E=Hardware Enthusiast, O=Overclocker, B=Budget
Many thanks to Intel® for providing the board.

I. Introduction

II. Specification

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Graphics solution

  • 256-bit graphics core running at 400MHz
  • Up to 10.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth with DDR2 667 system memory
  • 1.6 GPixels/sec and 1.6 GTexels/sec fill rate
  • Up to 224 MB maximum video memory
  • 2048x1536 at 75 Hz maximum resolution
  • Dynamic Display Modes for flat-panel, wide-screen and Digital TV support
  • Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows* XP, Windows* XP 64bit, Media Center Edition 2004/2005, Windows 2000; Linux-compatible (Xfree86 source available)
  • Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering
  • Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Hardware Acceleration Features:
  • Pixel Shader 2.0
  • Volumetric Textures
  • Shadow Maps
  • Slope Scale Depth Bias
  • Two-Sided Stencil
  • Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform and Lighting supported in software through highly optimized Processor Specific Geometry Pipeline (PSGP)
  • Texture Decompression for DirectX* and OpenGL*
  • OpenGL* 1.4 support plus ARB_vertex_buffer and EXT_shadow_funcs extensions and TexEnv shader caching
  • Up to 2048x1536 resolution for both analog and digital displays
  • Consumer Electronic display (Digital TV) support
  • Display hot plug support to automatically detect new display connection while system is operating (CRT and DVI)
  • Two Serial Digital Video Out (SDVO) ports for flat-panel monitors and/or TV-out support via Advanced Digital Display 2 (ADD2) cards or Media Expansion Cards
  • Intel Media Expansion Cards available providing TV-out and PVR capability
  • Multiple display types (LVDS, DVI-I, DVI-D, HDTV, TV-out, CRT)
  • Dual screen support through ADD2 digital video devices
  • HDTV 480i/p, 576i/p, 720i/p and 1080i/p display resolution support
  • Interlaced Display output support
  • 16x9 and 16x10 Aspect Ratio for widescreen displays
  • 2x2 Panel Scaler
  • High Definition Hardware Motion Compensation to support high definition hi-bitrate MPEG2 media playback
  • Up and Down Scaling of Video Content
  • High Definition Content Decode - up to two stream support
  • 5x3 Overlay Filtering.

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