woth adding a 5770 to a 6950- using lucid?

[tommo123]

at the mo i am using the igpu of my 3570k and plan (when i can be bothered) add the 6950 and use the lucid mvp thingy to jump back and forth between them. if i add the 5770 too, would lucids software loadbalance across all 3? or would it not be worth doing?

 

[coffeejunkee]

Mixing different model/brand videocards only works with Hydra, not with Lucid Virtu for Z68/Z77 boards.

Virtu offers 2 modes, one where you use your discrete videocard as primary output while the cpu's igp is only used for the Quicksync video encoding feature. This works fine but at the moment as far as I know only paid software like Media Espresso can use it. Free software like Handbrake doesn't support Quicksync and works purely on cpu power.

The second mode is where you use the cpu's igp as primary output while the vidcard only kicks in when playing games. Technically this mode works as well, but the problem is it doesn't save any power since the vidcard isn't disabled at all when not in use. On the contrary, the vidcard won't even clock down during 2D loads since this is controlled by the driver which is bypassed in this mode. Therefore idle power will actually increase by quite a bit. So this mode is essentially useless.

Virtu also offers the Hyperperformance thingy where the vidcard and igp work together. I haven't tested this but I read reviews saying it doesn't work well at all, actually decreasing minimum framerates.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

NO, even if it was possible it would do more harm than good.