Intel’s upcoming mainstream chipset “P45″ is already in the starting blocks and is intended to replace the successful P35 ancestor with some small improvements. ASUS, gigabyte and MSI held accordingly already their own events to present in detail the future products.

If you would like to believe the current rumors, with the P45 chipset Intel seems to have but there are still some problems. Already a few weeks ago, various messages came up that the PCIe bus should not work, as it has thought Intel. In addition, there were probably more problems with the integrated graphics unit to the appropriate G4x counterparts, that prevented a HD video acceleration. Once the obstacles have been cleared, it seems to go now but further: some online media now report that ATis CrossFire technology on a P45 motherboard may is difficult.

What exactly these errors look like who is the culprit for now unknown, is also. With the current chipset, video card drivers, and BIOS versions, CrossFire is to work supposedly not always, what we can not but confirm. At least, no on-board partner left us said that the multi-GPU technology would not work. On the messages really something there is, will remain open but perhaps, as so often, forever.