AMD readies 780G for January
AMD IS preparing a raft of new chipsets with DirectX 10 IGPs for release in January, suggest sources whispering on the wibble.
The 740G and the 780G are the rumoured launch names, and they attack different market sectors. The 780G is the higher-end part, with Hypertransport 3, PCI-E 2, a DX10 IGP core as well as support for Hybrid Crossfire. Manufacturers could well be shipping 780G boards with DisplayPort, if they're feeling vaguely suicidal.
Meanwhile, the 740G is rather less interesting, with a mere DX9 IGP and standard PCI-Express interfaces.
There's a few more bits and bobs here.
Both new AMD parts are expected to surface in January, a little behind Nvidia and Intel, if the timescales all pan out. Who will be first to market with DX10 IGPs? The discussion is, of course, moot - since no IGP will be able to really run any games with DX10 effects at a decent frame rate. But with the ability to enable Hybrid SLI/Crossfire, could IGP boards soon become the hardware geek's choice chipset? ยต
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GeForce 8500 and Radeon HD 2400 are not yet powerfull enough to display all the efect of DX 10 game. BUT perhaps enough to play SOLATIRE :)). AND more importanly to decode VP1 and H.264. Can someone please test the UDP and Pure Video HD AGP Version on lowest Pentium 3, to prove that both of them (pure video HD and AVIVO)realy take care of processor task.
Not ALL the processing. There is no chance a p3 could decode a normal HD disc - the DRM processing alone would bring it to its knees. 

Now without DRM, I wouldn't know.