Hi All,
I got my new Scan 3XS system ten days ago and noticed the Gigabyte Sniper M3 MB supports a thing called Virtu MVP that uses both the discrete graphics card and the GPU built into the CPU.
I thought I'd give it a go with the following results:
When I first installed the Virtu MVP software it couldn't detect the integrated GPU so after much messing about I enabled the iGPU in the BIOS and allocated it 512mb of memory. Software still didn't work so I downloaded the intel ivybridge iGPU HD4000 driver from the Gigabyte website and installed it. After a re-boot the Virtu MVP software finally recognised everything and installed itself quickly.
Everything works fine and I ran 3DMark 11 for the sake of comparison. Before installing Virtu it gave 8968 and after it gave 10880. Games seem even smoother and I haven't seen any tearing of the type that Virtu claims to remove with it's v-sync stuff.
Overall, it's early days but the improvement seem real, but it's early days.
My Specs:
Gigabyte Sniper M3
i7-3770K (OC to around 4.5ghz)
EVGA 670 Superclocked 4mb
8gig 1600 RAM
120gb Corsair SSD
1tb 7200rpm HD


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