This board posts just fine, probably at a guess its 15 secs slower.
Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 Review
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How does lucid virtu work? do you have to connect the monitor to both the mobo dvi AND the gfx dvi?
You connect it to just the card, enable the software and it switches automatically between them.
The media espresso software shows an icon depending on a what its using to accelerate, i.e you see a CUDA symbol or Intel HD icon. Or none if its using no acceleration.
The media espresso software shows an icon depending on a what its using to accelerate, i.e you see a CUDA symbol or Intel HD icon. Or none if its using no acceleration.
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Fantastic, so should you only hear the gfx card fans when they are in use. I guess, internet browsing, youtube and divx should use onboard so would mean a quieter system.
The graphics card doesn't switch off so the fans spin slowly in a sort of idle mode similar to when your just browsing the internet with a high powered gpu anyways.
But I have a custom cooler on my card so its whisper quiet anyways.
But I have a custom cooler on my card so its whisper quiet anyways.
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nice review, a very interesting read!
Cheers, its a really good overclocker, after using it for a while now its so much stronger than the Asrock Z68 extreme 4 I got.
Almost all Z68/P67 boards do SLi/Crossfire at 8X/8X. the only way the others can do 16X/16X is to use a NF200/PLX chip to add more PCI-E lanes, these motherboards are really expensive,
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-056-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-338-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-475-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
Hardocp have conducted a test comparing SLI/Cossfire at 16X/16X vs 8X/8X and the difference was only 1-3% and that is at eyefinity type resolutions.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/23/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x8x8/
Yep, choose low profile RAM such as XMS3 or Vengeance LP
But Ripjaw RAM doe fit also,
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Great review Stulid, fantastic read. Looks like a cracking board, lack of DVI is disappointing though.
It is a good board and I still have it fitted, the Asrock is collecting dust and is up for sale.
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Good review stulid! lots of hard work there!
Still can't decide if I should take the new Gen3 ASRock Extreme 4 or this board... they are within 5 quid between each other and new ASRock had some great reviews...
Still can't decide if I should take the new Gen3 ASRock Extreme 4 or this board... they are within 5 quid between each other and new ASRock had some great reviews...
The Gigabyte does overclock more.
Excellent idea.
