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Dear Dr. Gadget,

My friend recently bought an integrated graphics motherboard to run one of the latest 3D games. He was quiet upset when the computer’s performance was terribly slow. What’s wrong? I have heard that an integrated motherboard that supports LFB is able to gain in quality image and performance for an Athlon64 platform. What is LFB? Is it helpful for playing games?

Jason

Bingo! Jason. You should look for an Athlon64-supported integrated graphics motherboard with LFB (Local Frame Buffer). It can help you to obtain higher quality images and performance at a reasonable price.

Why need “LFB”?
Well, LFB (Local Frame Buffer) is an architecture that provides advanced memory management to enhance the integrated graphics performance. With LFB, there’s a dedicated memory controller for graphics so that the system doesn’t need to share its memory with the graphics. In that case, the main memory is fully available for the computer system when you are playing a 3D game.

Traditionally, the number of the system memory shares half of its capacity for graphic processing to the graphics via share memory technology. If the system memory is 128MB and your 3D game requests minimum 64MB graphics memory to run it smoothly, you will only have 64MB left for your system performance.

That is why your friend’s system performance slows down. And the SiS760 chipset designed with Local Frame Buffer (LFB) can help you guys solve this problem.