Virtu Universal MVP Review
How We Tested
Contents
During our benchmarking sessions we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions the only variable device was the video card being tested.
Hardware Configuration
- Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H (F8d BIOS)
- CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K
- CPU Cooler: Intel stock/AMD stock liquid cooling solution
- Memory: 4 GB DDR3-1866, two G.Skill Ripjaws XF3-14900CL9D-4GBXL memory modules
- Hard Disk Drive: Western Digital Black Caviar 1 TB (WD1001FALS, SATA-300, 7,200 rpm, 32 MB buffer)
- Video Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 932BW
- Power Supply: Antec TruePower New 750 W
Operating System Configuration
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
- NTFS
- Video resolution: 1440×900 60 Hz
Driver Versions
- AMD video driver version: Catalyst 12.4
- Intel Inf chipset driver version: 9.3.0.1019
- Lucid Virtu Universal MVP driver version: 2.1.113.22180
Software Used
Error Margin
We adopted a 3% error margin. Thus differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.