ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 Lucid Virtu Installation Guide - Page 2

1 Introduction Lucid VIRTU solution is designed for Intel Sandy Bridge platform with Intel Processor Graphics enabled. VIRTU dynamically assigns tasks to best available graphics resource based on power, performance and features. There is no need for HW or HW changes. VIRTU allows user to fully utilize the unique capabilities of the Intel's advanced media features on Sandy Bridge along with the high end 3D rendering performance provided by the discrete GPU installed in the system. When no high end graphics is used and display is connected to integrated GPU, the discrete GPU is put in idle mode thus GPU utilization, heat, fan speed and power are down to near zero, turning the system to an environment friendly platform. * Currently, Lucid VIRTU solution is supported under Windows 7 / 7 64-bit OS only. 2 Hardware and software specifications 2.1 Hardware specifications In order to run the Lucid VIRTU solution, the following hardware is required: Item Configuration/features Motherboard Any Intel Sandy Bridge based platform with integrated onboard display output CPU Intel Sandy Bridge Dual/Quad Core CPU Chipset Intel Sandy Bridge H67/H61/Z68 Discrete GPU AMD HD 5xxx/6xxx series RAM Nvidia GF 4xx/5xx series At least 2GB 2.2 Software specifications Item OS APIs Configuration/features Windows 7 32 bit Windows 7 64 bit DirectX 9 DirectX 10/10.1 DirectX 11 GPU drivers Intel - any WHQL driver Nvidia - any WHQL driver AMD- any WHQL driver