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Digital Home Performance
Intel® Core™2 Quad processors with Intel® G45 Express Chipset
The Intel® G45 Express Chipset, when combined with the Intel® Core™2 processor family, delivers new technologies and innovative capabilities for digital home consumers with major advancements in video, graphics, responsiveness and scalability.
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Enhanced Hi-Def video playback
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Full hardware acceleration for MPEG2, AVC, and VC1 formats
The Intel® G45 Express Chipset includes built-in support for full 1080p high-definition video playback, including Blu-ray* disc movies. Combined with Intel® Core™2 processor technology, it provides users with a rich, new media experience. These results compare the Intel G45 Express chipset with previous generation Intel® G33 Express Chipset. Using the same processors on both platforms, not only do the Intel G45 Express Chipset Hi-Def playback results below achieve lower CPU utilization, but playback with exceptionally smoother, artifact free quality.
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Now watch your movies with less static, and less jitter
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Sharper picture quality
Combine Intel® G45 Express Chipset with Intel® GMA X4500HD for an outstanding video experience. Watch crystal clear images with vibrant color and less stutter.
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Watch Hi-Def movies clearer and smoother
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Enhanced Hi-Definition video
The Intel GMA X4500HD included in the Intel® G45 Express Chipset , comes with Intel® Clear Video Technology, a combination of video processing hardware and software technologies designed to enhance the visual experience. The Intel® Clear Video Technology delivers enhanced detail without imperfections and artifacts typically associated with PC-based video content.
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Easily convert your video files to other formats
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Prepare your videos for DVD, your Apple iPod*, and much more
Now convert video file between popular video formats rapidly with excellent quality. This test measures the time it takes to convert a video clip with VBR encoding to an HDV format MPEG file with CBR encoding.
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Convert your home videos to DivX* format
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Capture and edit your videos even faster
With innovative encoding technology and Quad-core processing, you can be a movie director and edit your videos for distribution to family and friends. This test measures the time to take your digital home video content and convert it to a MPEG4 format (DivX*) for better compression while still maintaining high image quality.
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Organize and manage your music easier and quicker
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Create and sync audio content for your Apple iPod*
Along with the benefits of Intel® Core™2 processor technology, the new G45 Express Chipset achieves a new level of performance and responsiveness. Now you can convert your wav files to mp3s even faster.
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Manage, adjust, and show off your digital photos
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Prepare your pictures with ease and speed
Editing your digital photos and creating a web gallery has never been so easy. With the new Intel® G45 Express chipset combined with Intel® Core™2 processor technology, spend less time in front of the computer and more time in front of the lens.
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Multitasking performance for your home
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The Intel® Digital Home Capabilities Assesment Tool (Intel® DHCAT) is used to assess home PC usage scenarios. Get performance that meets the processing needs of the most demanding multitasker.
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Improved 3D rendering performance
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Assess your PC's rendering capabilities
With optimized performance and support for Microsoft DirectX* 10, Shader Model 4.0, and OpenGL* 2.0, the Intel G45 Express Chipset with Intel GMA X4500HD delivers excellent 3D graphics and outstanding graphics responsiveness. Render intense 3D images put your system to the test. Intel platforms rise to the challenge!
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Measure your computer's overall performance using PCMark* Vantage
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Faster system performance
The Intel® G45 Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) incorporates an updated GMCH backbone architecture that significantly increases overall system performance through the optimization of available bandwidth with the new 1333 MHz system bus and reduction of memory access latency with Intel® Fast Memory Access.
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Δ HD content playback capability is measured for this platform using CPU Utilization (objective score in %). The playback quality is measured over the first 100 seconds of this movie and several chapters. The lower the CPU utilization score, the better.
Φ Pegasys TMPEGEnc* 4.4 allows you to take almost any video file and encode it to your desired file format including DivX*, AVI, QuickTime*, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, Blu-ray* disc and much more. The input file for this workload is a 1min 16sec, 29.97fps, 1440x1080 video clip with VBR encoding and a total size of about 1.12GB. The ouput is an HDV format MPEG file with 1440x1080 resolution, 29.97fps and 25000Kb/s CBR encoding. The extrapolation used to calculate the number of videos you can encode in 1 hour.
∇ The Intel® Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (Intel® DHCAT) is an extensible and experiential framework to assess user-centric digital home platform capabilities, reflecting many current and emerging usages.
§ VirtualDub* is a video capture/processing utility. It is streamlined for fast linear operations over video and allows users to batch process multiple tasks on multiple video files. DivX* is a format for digital video. The workload for VirtualDub is a 66.2MB 110sec MPEG2 video file in 720x480 resolution at 5Mbps. It is converted to DivX format with 720x480 resolution with a total size of ~10.3MB. Extrapolation is used to calculate the number of videos you can convert in 30 minutes.
± Apple iTunes* 7.6.2 is a digital media application that can be used to manage digital music such as converting from one digital audio format to another. In this case, Apple iTunes is used to convert 61 minutes, 24 seconds of music from WAV to MP3 format with a bit rate of 160Kbps for listening on your iPod*. Extrapolation used to calculate the number of 4-minute songs you can convert in 5 minutes.
µ Adobe Photoshop Lightroom* 1.1 is a photography application that lets you manage, adjust, and present a large amount of photographs. For this scenario Lightroom 1.1 is used to resize 125 ten-megapixel and 75 six-megapixel JPEG photos at 480x360 resolution for posting to Facebook* or viewing on portable devices such as an iPhone*. The photos are also used to create a personal HTML web gallery that can be published online. Extrapolation used to calculate the number of images you can prepare in 3 minutes for upload to Facebook.
ß HQV evaluates the image quality for Plasma, LCD, RPTV or Front Projector HDTV.
ø HD-HQV evaluates the picture quality of various high definition products, such as your HDTV, monitor, video scaler, HD-DVD player, Blu-ray player, projector or AV receiver.
þ Cinebench* 10 is a test suite that assesses your computer's 3D-image rendering capabilities.
θ PCMark* Vantage measures hardware performance for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista*. Its benchmark result is a combination of the various test suites by PCMark Vantage to evaluate different usage scenarios.
Warning: Altering clock frequency and/or voltage may: (i) reduce system stability and useful life of the system, processor and other system components; (ii) cause the processor and other system components to fail; (iii) cause reductions in system performance; (iv) cause additional heat or other damage; and (v) affect system data integrity. Intel has not tested, and does not warranty, the operation of the processor beyond its specifications. Intel has not tested, and does not warranty, the operation of other system components beyond their industry standard specifications. Intel assumes no responsibility that the processor and other system components, including if used with altered clock frequencies and/or voltages, will be fit for any particular purpose.
Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel® Performance Benchmark Limitations.
Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.