Why no Lucidlogix Virtu MVP with Haswell boards?

[bgc99]

Why is this not bundled with the Haswell boards?

BGC

 

[blackened23]

Because it's worthless. I tried virtu with the Z77 and it just caused constant crashes and worked with nearly zero games.

 

[bgc99]

I see. My interest would be in the supposed boost to video encoding, but come to think of it I haven't done any of that in a long time anyway.

 

[lamedude]

That limitation is gone in Win8. I guess news of Win8's demise hasn't reached Taiwan yet so the mobo manufactures probably see no reason to spend $ on MVP.

 

[HurleyBird]

Actually, a lot of the MSI boards support it.

 

[bgc99]

I'm about to build a new system and I will be installing Win 7, so the news reached me.

 

[jkauff]

The retail version of Virtu MVP 2.0 works on Win 8 IB, but I don't have a Haswell system to test. I'm not aware of any video encoding programs that have taken advantage of the iGPU/dGPU co-existence capability of Win 8 so far.