Core i3 with H55 chipset review!

It seems to have a decent performance increase over the E7000 series dual cores:

http://en.inpai.com.cn/doc/enshowcon...64&pageid=6359

The IGP also seems much faster than the G45 too although overall platform power consumption seems to have increased.

I thought platform power consumption was suppose to decrease? :/

Same here, think il wait for a few more reviews first - i suppose the argument could be that performance per watt has increased though.

more power, more heat, can beat the intel GMA . . . not looking good.

The real question is how would it do vs a e7400 on a nvidia 9200 motherboard?

Here is a comparison of the Core i3 with an Athlon II X3 435 and a 785G based motherboard:

http://en.inpai.com.cn/doc/enshowcon...79&pageid=6406

The Athlon II X4 620 looks to be competitive with the 2.93GHZ Core i3 530 and cheaper too:

http://en.inpai.com.cn/doc/enshowcon...75&pageid=6387

Edit!!

The Core i3 530 is available for pre-order from CCL:

http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...706&tid=frooct