Well frankly speaking,paper specs being above 6150 is merely very poor excuse for it's lack for games compatibility IMO.With a higher core clock & additional support for onboard sharing doesn't make much difference when it comes to gaming on onboard video as they are handicapped by poor bandwidth.
Now coming back to the "pure video" V/S "Clear video" aspect,tell me how much difference did you actually notice? I went through all the images,yet again.Believe me I've been there done that.Been through this review at Anandtech tons of times before buying my actual PC.Seriously not impressed.The only minute difference I could gauge into was that 6150 was having a bit faded contrast as compared to GMA X3000.Now let's speak in much more practical terms,I had tried out Terminator II:Judgement Day Director's Cut Edition original DVD on both my chipset as well as my friends Nvidia 6150 chipset with all WinDVD settings to default & didn't notice much difference.
For Doom III Yes I have seen my friend play this game @1024x768 with Ultra settings & with AA & AF turned on(Duh!) and would get 19-20fps at some point & then would would drop when intense battle scenes.Did you know that Doom III didn't run on X3000 before this beta driver came out?
BTW what pleasure do you get with running a game at such low fps? Would you rather have low settings & have playable frame rates or would rather prefer a slide show with high settings?
For the record,have also tried out Quake 4 but was at 800x600 with playable frame rates indoor & would lag heavily on outdoors which I would rather want to see how much you got in outdoor sequences @1024x768?
Don't have CMR05 & haven't tried GRAW yet.
Only time will tell if Intel could release a stable driver which could prove to be worthy of running most of the games which Nvidia can currently run with zero crash & restart problems.
Now don't get me wrong I am not against Intel out here.My only question is when they boasted so much about this chipset's features & clock speeds & stuff like that then why make such rubbish drivers which are incapable of pulling off many games decently.Heck even a game like Far Cry came up with heavy graphical glitches.If you had kept a track of the Nvidia's older generation Nforce chipset's as well then even they had better graphic capabilities compared to Intel.They never had driver issues till date.Hence I would rather wait & watch from a distance of Intel coming up with some good solution.Dude believe me I have tried out F.E.A.R @1600x1200 resolution on my X3000 with old drivers & even I could yield 15fps with all settings to high.HL2 @1280x1024 all high with 4X AA & 8X AF(in game) & believe it or not it could run the game.I was shocked to see it delivering 25-30fps indoors at some points.
So not like this chipset is trash it just needs a good & most notably a stable driver to pat it's back.
