Lucid Virtu MVP any good?

[edge12674]

My new Z77 mobo features Virtu MVP and I was wondering if it is worth installing especially for AH?  From what I have read so far it seems to just muddy up the waters regarding framerates.

Thanks for your time.

TShark

[Bino]

Interesting... I'd never even *heard* about that.  From the reviews, it looks like you can expect about a 10% improvement across most of the games tested.

Yet another reason to suggest a mobo/cpu upgrade to the Ministry Of Finance (AKA Mrs. Bino).   

[Greebo]

IIRC a few months ago when I was building my current PC, I read that MVP tends to increase your maximum FPS slightly but also reduce your minimum FPS a bit as well. Seemed like it wasn't worth it as the minimum FPS rate is the more important figure to me.

[Skuzzy]

I do not see this help Aces High.  In fact, it is quite possible it will hurt the overall performance.

[Drano]

I thought Virtu was a program for the Sandy/Ivy processors that would manage which GPU was in use? The Sandy/Ivys have a GPU built into them and Virtu will switch to that for general use in order to save power. You wouldn't use that GPU for gaming. You'd have to have another card for that and Virtu will send graphics to that card as needed. Or as you'd configured it. I had it on my P8Z68-Deluxe board but it doesn't have a built in graphics port of any kind. I found Virtu was locking up my rig so I uninstalled it and have had no problems since. I'm thinking it has a use but the use would be in saving on power consumption during general computing where you don't need all the extra horsepower.

The MVP version is new. I haven't tried it. Don't see what's to be gained. I've got a decent graphics card (MSI R6950 2GB PE/OC Edition). The short of it is it isn't gonna magically make the built in GPU on your processor run like a discreet card.

[edge12674]

I thought Virtu was a program for the Sandy/Ivy processors that would manage which GPU was in use? The Sandy/Ivys have a GPU built into them and Virtu will switch to that for general use in order to save power. You wouldn't use that GPU for gaming. You'd have to have another card for that and Virtu will send graphics to that card as needed. Or as you'd configured it. I had it on my P8Z68-Deluxe board but it doesn't have a built in graphics port of any kind. I found Virtu was locking up my rig so I uninstalled it and have had no problems since. I'm thinking it has a use but the use would be in saving on power consumption during general computing where you don't need all the extra horsepower.

The MVP version is new. I haven't tried it. Don't see what's to be gained. I've got a decent graphics card (MSI R6950 2GB PE/OC Edition). The short of it is it isn't gonna magically make the built in GPU on your processor run like a discreet card.

From what I have read the MVP allows the GPU, whether onboard or on a discrete card, to render without being slowed down by Vsync and does not produce any tearing.  Most tests seem to show a 5% to 10% increase in performance.  However, it seems that any improvement is still speculative due to the way MVP reports framerate.  This program is now being marketed as a boon for gaming rigs.