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    Montevina Help

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Sahin, Dec 2, 2007.

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    Can some one tell me more about the Montevina chip and some of the advantages it is going to have? Is it true that there will be a quadcore version? And if some one has a link it would be great!
     
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    THXs but there is not much in there I am more or less interested if Montevina will bring out quad cores?
     
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    Anyone help pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Yes Quad core finally!
     
    Sahin, Dec 2, 2007
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    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    The Montevina platform will bring:

    • Low power usage Penryn chips (25w compared to 35w of current Core 2 Duo's)
    • Smaller motherboard allows notebooks to be up to 25% smaller than current notebooks
    • WiMax
    • Ability to view HD DVD or Blu-ray without a dedicated video card
    • Robson 2.0 (2nd version ofTurbo memory)
    • DDR3 Ram
    • 3 versions of Intel GMA X4500 (intergrated graphics)
    • Intel's line of SSD's
    New Nvidia 9000 series/ATI 3000 series graphics cards with DX10.1 support
     
    Jayayess1190, Dec 4, 2007
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