The "Graphics Media Accelerator", sounds like the 915 chipset (PCI Express)
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...ProductID=1764
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915g/ More info on the chipset
It's a DirectX9 solution, but not a great one, Intel apparently inherited the "tile based rendering" of the Kyro/Kyro2 by licencing from STMicro, and lacks any hardware T&L or vertex shader - so other than the essintial Pixel shader 2.0 for DX9, it ain't much of an accelerator.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2143
From the final page of that review...
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Unfortunately, Intel's latest graphics solution can't keep up with the cheapest PCI Express graphics solution that we could find. The X300 SE isn't a speed demon, but its speed can usually be measured in multiples of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 performance.
The market for integrated graphics is focused much more on business and low cost computing. People who are interested in gaming should stay very far away from the Intel solutions. While some games are actually playable, and performance is head and shoulders above that of Intel Extreme Graphics 2, performance is too abysmal for us to recommend the GMA900 for anything beyond 2D computing and extremely rudimentary 3D.
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The first law of onboard graphics remains unchanged - they are NOT a performance solution, and are typically not much use for anything beyond "business graphics".
If you think you need a driver update to make it go faster or look better, you probably really need to bypass the onboard graphics altogether!