ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1155 by stefan @ 2012-05-21

The latest Fatal1ty Z77 Professional board from ASRock does not disappoint regarding overall performance and continues to sport the same catchy black/red theme, along with a redesigned UEFI interface, plenty of connectivity ports and software for enhancing and fine-tuning performance from inside Windows OS.

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VIRTU MVP Performance Comparison

The board supports the Virtu MVP technology; to download the latest version of the application, we can go ahead and navigate to the Lucid website. The interface has multiple tabs and in the Main one, we can disable or enable the GPU Virtualization feature and set the location/behavior of the In-Game icon:

 

 

 

Virtu MVP is based on two technologies: HyperFormance and Virtual Vsync which can be enabled or disabled from the interface. HyperFormance is meant to remove redundant rendering tasks within the graphics pipeline for improving the overall game performance and frame rate; Virtual Vsync enables us to run the games at higher FPS, with no image tearing artifacts:

 

 

 

The next tab shows us the compatible applications with Virtu MVP; if a game/benchmark is not listed, we can introduce it manually into the list, by clicking on the Add button:

 

 

 

In the About tab, we can see the currently installed application version:

 

 

 

While the monitor was connected to the dedicated VGA card, we have performed some benchmarks to see the performance differences in all available modes:

 

Run 1= HyperFormance Off , Virtual Vsync Off

Run 2= HyperFormance On, Virtual Vsync Off

Run 3= HyperFormance Off, Virtual Vsync On

Run 4= HyperFormance On, Virtual Vsync On

3DMark Vantage

3DMark 11

Crysis

Street Fighter 4

Far Cry 2

Just Cause 2

During testing, we have experienced the same issues as with the ECS board, meaning that Far Cry 2 was displaying artifacts (a lot of areas were getting black in the surrounding areas) and Just Cause 2 refused to run the benchmark (black screen), even if there were no issues navigating inside the main menus.

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