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High end Z68 + Virtu

High end Z68 + Virtu
« on: May 14, 2011, 01:12:01 pm »
Since Lucid's Virtu will work with primary being the dedicated video card, will the software work with your high end motherboards without video connectors and will you be offering it, or is it still a no go?

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Re: High end Z68 + Virtu
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 02:10:49 pm »
I wouldn't have thought there was much point in having it on a board with no integrated graphics. :-\
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
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Re: High end Z68 + Virtu
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2011, 02:27:55 pm »
It was my understanding that the actual graphics port was just an outlet, that the actual igp was on the cpu.  It might follow then that you can run virtu from your dedicated graphics card and get the quicksync speed and quality as the software copies the frames from the igp on the cpu.

I would like to know if this is so, or if my reasoning is flawed.  I would like to know that gigabyte didn't create a bunch of high end boards that they can't sell (to me).  I especially wanted to buy gigabyte but not a gimped economy board.