Tenuous link, Big Band mobo brand ALL about Lucid, big press releases confirming the launch for OCt 29th. On Oct 29th all reference to a Lucid board is removed and suddenly a previously unannounced, unhinted at board replaces any mention of Lucid with Nvidia SLI chip instead?
They haven't launched a second completely unrelated brand of boards, they've replaced it with something thats unavailable and with seemingly(can't seem to see the different photo's at the moment due to crap internet) use the same picture of the same mobo with minor parts fairly obviously photoshopped out.
Tenuous link?
No, if this promise board dissappeared WITHOUT an IDENTICAL mobo suddenly sporting a new Nvidia chip instead, there would be no link whatsoever. However thats not what happened, add to that other companies all say it works, and MSI themselves up to the launch said it works and works great, theres little reason to delay it. Almost everyone in the industry knows Nvidia aren't happy about Lucid with their CEO talking about how it can't possibly work etc, etc, then being proven wrong.
You can pretend he pulled Nvidia's name out of his behind and slapped it all over there, however all the images on MSI's site where they've completely changed the board they were going to release, and have Nvidia's name all over it, well, I'm assuming you're not accusing Charlie of hacking MSI's site and replacing the board with a new Nvidia one with their name all over it?
Do also notice that Creative, and Lucid are mentioned as launch partners, with no sign anywhere of Nvidia on their Big Bang website.