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Centrino 2: What's in the Intel sequel?

By Rory Reid on 15 July 2008, 10:30am

Chipsets
There's a slew of new motherboard chipsets, too, dubbed GM45, GM47 or PM45. The GM45 and GM47 both have a high-speed 1,066MHz front side bus -- basically a lightning-quick highway for transferring data between the memory and the CPU -- and will support DDR2 and -- for the first time -- DDR3 memory, which has a higher peak throughput than previous memory technologies.

Both chipsets will feature Intel's new X4500 HD integrated graphics adaptor, which has integrated HDMI and DisplayPort. Both are also DirectX 10-compliant, but if games are important to you, opt for the GM47, since that has a slightly faster graphics core -- 640MHz versus 533MHz.

The aforementioned PM45 chipset supports all the same features, but lacks an integrated graphics adaptor. It'll therefore be the chipset of choice for high-end gaming laptops, and will come with either ATI or Nvidia graphics solutions.

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