ASRock Z77-Extreme6

paradisiac

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Well my board arrived this morning. swapped it all over (I forgot to backup, but luckily windows 7 booted fine on the new board :))

My Z68-Extreme 4

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My new Z77-Extreme 6

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first impressions is build quality is ok, not spectacular but doesn't feel flimsy either.
the usb 3 header is up near the sata ports rather than down the bottom with the usb 2 headers on the Z68-Extreme, which seemed to put less stress on the cable.
the bios is very similar to the Z68, with the addition of the system information, which when you highlight certain parts of the board, it tells you whats fitted (albeit for my GTX560 it just said NVidia display and HD audio, not the actual model number).
once everything is backed up will do a fresh install and try overclocking. I managed to get 4.6GHz stable with the Z68, I imagine this will achieve the same, but will see.
will also test out lucid mvp and see how the screen tearing works.
 
ok, so all backed up, here is the bios (similar options to the previous Z68)

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the OMG is disabled by default, but gives you a few options on how to implement it. not sure how many people will use it though.

windows is going on now.
 
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paradisiac said:
Lucid MVP

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more programs in its list and seems like more options too. plus the virtual vsync option.
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isnt the Lucid virtu stuff meant to be better than adding a new GPU? i.e 30-70% performance increase on games :eek:

so if you have a 6 series gpu and a z68 board your better upgrading to z77 than a new 7 series gpu without lucid virtu!
 
phill1978 said:
isnt the Lucid virtu stuff meant to be better than adding a new GPU? i.e 30-70% performance increase on games :eek:

so if you have a 6 series gpu and a z68 board your better upgrading to z77 than a new 7 series gpu without lucid virtu!
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im not sure. just about finished all my updates and have stuck 3dmark 11 on. so will run a test shortly and post my results.
don't have anything to compare it to though, so will have to rely on others with a similar setup with Z68.
I really wanted the virtual vsync, if that works I will be happy.
 
The robot in the lucid virtu stuff gives me the heebie jeebies.

It won't be as good as a 30-70% increase I would expect....

If you have a weak graphics card you should see most effect as it should be able to combine it with the integrated graphics on your CPU. However if you've got a mainstream card the effect will be less, and with a high end card I would imagine it'll be negligible - and at some point I could believe that the effect would be negative.

My worry with the MVP is how stable it'll be. SLi and Xfire have trouble and they're using near identical cards. How will my 580 go when I try and team it up with an Ivy Bridge CPU? Well, let's say that I'm not banking on getting any movement there :)

However perhaps over time as it gets more stable with updates that's when it'll start to shine... because that's when the graphics card will start to date. So perhaps at a later date we'll enable it for one more boost.
 
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from that there does seem to be a boost with the hyperformance on and virtual vsync off. even with virtual vsync and hyperformance on it scores higher than both off.

on a side note to the lucid MVP, there is now a right click addition, so if you right click a shortcut there is the virtu option there to run with, always run with or add to lucid list.
 
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The Halk said:
The robot in the lucid virtu stuff gives me the heebie jeebies.

It won't be as good as a 30-70% increase I would expect....
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if you look above the system stressing benchmark is 25FPS better so thats 25% right there (bout the same difference as a whole GPU generation) I agree its not 70% but 25% extra just for buying the motherboard !

also i don't think its shared gpu, i think its using a smart compression technique thats too technical for a mere mortal like me

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/cebit_2012_gigabyte_live_demo_lucid_virtu_mvp,1.html

impressive.

does any AMD board feature lucid virtu? if not then combined with the generally accepted faster intel cpu socket you be mad as a high end gamer not to get one of these boards :confused: you could literally be pulling 40 fps more with the right intel cpu and this board over an AMD counterpart and that sucks as my rig is all AMD
 
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im not sure (will post either tomorrow or later in the week when I have had a play) whether overclocking my cpu will increase the gains more (dunno if my stock 2500k would bottleneck the GTX560 with hyperformance). also, don't the newer IB chips have a better GPU, so the gap cold be a lot higher.
 
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