Notably, for £30, you cannot buy an additional GPU worth mentioning though.
The slightly cheaper Core i3-530 comes in at £100, saving a solid £70 off the end price but it's still more expensive than the AMD setup. Throw in the Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H motherboard for the Intel CPU, at £85, and that comes to a whopping £255! For the £100 difference between the Core i5-661 and AMD's setup, you could drop in a Radeon HD 5750 for an awesome gaming experience. The cost of the Intel Core i5-661 alone is £170, which in itself is more expensive than the price of the AMD CPU and 785G motherboard, which are £70 and £80 respectively. However, this article is designed for those aiming to buy an IGP for video playback - for ultra low power, the lowest physical profile and silence, for example - yet wanting some gaming on the side. This is because the CPU architectures - and therefore IGPs - cannot be directly compared clock for clock.īe aware of the cost difference between the AMD system and rival Intel ones, which should factor into any system upgrade: for the cost of the Intel system you could buy the AMD one with quite a powerful a discrete graphics card, clearly allowing far superior performance. System CostPlease note, we did not feel the need to unify the clock speeds on the test systems - instead testing the fast, dual core CPUs at their default clock speed. Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB hard disk.MSI 785G-E65 with 128MB 1,333MHz GDDR3 Sideport Memory (500MHz Radeon HD 4200 IGP, 2.4 BIOS).AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition: 3.1GHz (15.5x200MHz), 2 core, 2 thread.Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H motherboard (F5m BIOS).Intel Core i5-661: 3.33GHz (25x133MHz), 900MHz Intel GMA HD IGP, 2 core, 4 thread, TurboBoost Enabled.We also used an Iiyama 21in FullHD (1,920 x 1,080) monitor with HDCP (over DVI) in the Blu-ray playback tests. During these tests, the PSU listed below was replaced with a 350W Enermax Eco80 in order to represent a typical, low power and budget ATX PSU that could be paired with these PCs. We manual played the games and recorded the FPS using FRAPS 3.03, preferring to use games and a 1,280 x 800 resolution likely used by HDTVs and scaled down from mainstream, widescreen TFT sizes: 19in to 21in.įor the video playback testing, we used h.264 clips, trailers and Blu-ray discs, in popular paid-for and free softwares, to measure CPU usage and power consumption in all the platforms. Testing MethodsAs always we've aimed to test the systems in likely, real-world scenarios that integrated graphics would be used for.
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