Well it looks like we are just 26 days away form seeing the first Hydra chip intergrated onto a mobo.
For those that need a catch up on what Hydra is..... in brief a company called Lucid Logix where funded by an unknown source *cough* intel *cough* to make something that would give graphics cards full scalability. To give you some idea here is how it works currently:
You buy 1 gfx card @ £300 and get 100% performance you add another £300 card and stick it in SLI or Xfire and you might gain say for arguments sake 50% (50% would be a very good gain btw) so in theory out of your second card you getting about £150 worth of performance if you want to do it in money terms.
Lucid allows you to get 100% scalability.....this is not all the best is yet to come. Its not tied into nvidia or ATI so you can choose to crossfire or SLI and like the current ATI range you can now pair nvidia cards up regardless of model for example a 9800gt can be in theory "SLI'd" with a 285GTX or anything you may have lying around.
Now the biggest thing.....are you ready......you will be able to use ATI and Nvidia cards together in what i've decided to call Crossli.
As im sure you can appreciate if this technology works as it should this is going to be a massive turning point in the not only the graphics card arena but in computing as a whole.
How long before you buy your computer then buy a shuttle style case that links to the PC that you fill with graphics cards for gaming
Well the clever guys at lucid have now released hydra 200 chip which MSI have intergrated into a P55 board with 3 PCIe sockets.
This technology has been known for over 12 months now but finally we will be able to actually use it ourselves.
Clever move by intel really as it pretty much makes nvidia's chipset days numbered, not there is any point in buying a nvidia chipset anymore anyways.
Whats everyones opinion on this?
For those that need a catch up on what Hydra is..... in brief a company called Lucid Logix where funded by an unknown source *cough* intel *cough* to make something that would give graphics cards full scalability. To give you some idea here is how it works currently:
You buy 1 gfx card @ £300 and get 100% performance you add another £300 card and stick it in SLI or Xfire and you might gain say for arguments sake 50% (50% would be a very good gain btw) so in theory out of your second card you getting about £150 worth of performance if you want to do it in money terms.
Lucid allows you to get 100% scalability.....this is not all the best is yet to come. Its not tied into nvidia or ATI so you can choose to crossfire or SLI and like the current ATI range you can now pair nvidia cards up regardless of model for example a 9800gt can be in theory "SLI'd" with a 285GTX or anything you may have lying around.
Now the biggest thing.....are you ready......you will be able to use ATI and Nvidia cards together in what i've decided to call Crossli.
As im sure you can appreciate if this technology works as it should this is going to be a massive turning point in the not only the graphics card arena but in computing as a whole.
How long before you buy your computer then buy a shuttle style case that links to the PC that you fill with graphics cards for gaming
Well the clever guys at lucid have now released hydra 200 chip which MSI have intergrated into a P55 board with 3 PCIe sockets.
This technology has been known for over 12 months now but finally we will be able to actually use it ourselves.
Clever move by intel really as it pretty much makes nvidia's chipset days numbered, not there is any point in buying a nvidia chipset anymore anyways.
Whats everyones opinion on this?
