- Jan 15, 2001
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First of all, I just have to say the Sandy Bridge system options really piss me off. I'm an engineer at Intel and I can't even figure some of it out. Quicksync seems really awesome for how I use my home computer, but I have no idea if it's working or not.
I did a partial rebuild last week:
i7-2600k
Asrock Z68 Extreme
8GB DDR3-1333
I reused my 2x Raptor74 RAID0 solution as well as my GTX260. I'll be getting a 720 series SSD when they are released and probably a new video card at the same time, but they work great for what I need at the moment. I upgraded from an E8400 so the performance increase has been huge. Anyway...
I have 3 monitors connected to my computer and I'd like to connect the 4th pretty soon, but I'm waiting on a longer DVI cable. I have a 30" Dell, 2x 24" Dell's, and a 20.5" Dell. The 30" and one 24" are connected to my GTX260 and the other 24" is connected to the DVI port on the motherboard.
Virtu is installed and enabled, but I don't understand what clicking the On/Off button really does. When I am at the desktop (no 3D), clicking the On/Off button disables IGP, but all 3 monitors continue to work. Why is that? When I open World of Warcraft, there is supposed to be an overlay in the upper left corner based on what the Virtu control panel says if I'm understanding that correctly, but there is no overlay. As an aside, when I first installed Virtu there was a long list of supported games in the Games tab, but now there are only 3 (Media Converter 7, Media Converter 7 GUI, Media Espresso). What is going on with that?
Lastly, I opened a 2GB video (AVCHD) in Windows Live Movie Maker and saved it as 1920x1080 @ 15Mbps (original format was 1920x1080 @ 24Mbps) and I have no idea if Quicksync was working. Clicking the On/Off button in the Virtu control panel had no affect on the encoding speed. I guess it finished relatively quickly, but it's hard to tell. The video encoded in roughly 4-5 minutes, but I have no idea how long it used to take so I don't have a data point to compare.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
I did a partial rebuild last week:
i7-2600k
Asrock Z68 Extreme
8GB DDR3-1333
I reused my 2x Raptor74 RAID0 solution as well as my GTX260. I'll be getting a 720 series SSD when they are released and probably a new video card at the same time, but they work great for what I need at the moment. I upgraded from an E8400 so the performance increase has been huge. Anyway...
I have 3 monitors connected to my computer and I'd like to connect the 4th pretty soon, but I'm waiting on a longer DVI cable. I have a 30" Dell, 2x 24" Dell's, and a 20.5" Dell. The 30" and one 24" are connected to my GTX260 and the other 24" is connected to the DVI port on the motherboard.
Virtu is installed and enabled, but I don't understand what clicking the On/Off button really does. When I am at the desktop (no 3D), clicking the On/Off button disables IGP, but all 3 monitors continue to work. Why is that? When I open World of Warcraft, there is supposed to be an overlay in the upper left corner based on what the Virtu control panel says if I'm understanding that correctly, but there is no overlay. As an aside, when I first installed Virtu there was a long list of supported games in the Games tab, but now there are only 3 (Media Converter 7, Media Converter 7 GUI, Media Espresso). What is going on with that?
Lastly, I opened a 2GB video (AVCHD) in Windows Live Movie Maker and saved it as 1920x1080 @ 15Mbps (original format was 1920x1080 @ 24Mbps) and I have no idea if Quicksync was working. Clicking the On/Off button in the Virtu control panel had no affect on the encoding speed. I guess it finished relatively quickly, but it's hard to tell. The video encoded in roughly 4-5 minutes, but I have no idea how long it used to take so I don't have a data point to compare.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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