Lucid Hydra on x58 follow up mobo

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Tempered81

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This is great news... I'm looking forward to seeing this chip on some retail motherboards. Wish they wouldn't keep the technology so "hush-hush". It's an obvious win for every pc gamer - and might even help revive PC gaming! I've had "the future is hydra" in my sig for a while now.
 
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MarcVenice

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Jup, great, real news. I hope Hydra can live up to it's claims. I still wonder though, what will happen if you add a HD4850 + HD4870 together for example? Won't the difference in memory bandwith be a bottleneck?

If this means you can keep your EXPENSIVE card you bought for $200 2 years ago, and just run it alongside you're new $200 card, instead of having to sell it for a measly $30, it would be just great!
 
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SSChevy2001

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OMG! Where are the people that said it was vaporware?

If this works right I just might have to upgrade my system and buy another 4870.

Just imagine having 2GB of usable vram.

What happens to multigpu cards?
 
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aka1nas

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Originally posted by: SSChevy2001
OMG! Where are the people that said it was vaporware?
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It is vaporware. It's an unsourced article from the Inquirer. It even has an edit on it saying that the board is not even finalized.
 
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Originally posted by: aka1nas
Originally posted by: SSChevy2001
OMG! Where are the people that said it was vaporware?
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It is vaporware. It's an unsourced article from the Inquirer. It even has an edit on it saying that the board is not even finalized.
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Yeah until a see a retail product with confirmed benches it's vaporware.
 
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ArchAngel777

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I also consider this vaporware. But promising vaporware... I really hope this pans out as I would then consider a multi-GPU setup... However, I am skeptical only because if this could be done, I would have expected ATI or nVidia to purchase the company and their technology to get the edge on the other - At least, if I was ATI or nVidia I would have done that if they could have provided a reasonable demonstration of the technology. So that is why doubt lingers in the back of my mind. Lets hope for the best!
 
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bryanW1995

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well, hydra hasn't been talking about this for that long. Nvidia has been playing defense since june and ati has been playing defense for 2 years, so they both might have waited just a little bit too long to snap hydra up. Intel is probably the only company aggressive pursuing a new graphics strategy right now.
 
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chizow

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Intel already has a significant stake in Lucid Logix, their Hydra 100 was first shown at IDF in August. They were quoted as hoping to put a production chip out in Q1 or Q2 09 so this wouldn't be a huge surprise. The tech is interesting but there's definitely some concerns about it, particularly cost, input lag, and scaling.

IDF Article from AT
 
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nosfe

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do you guys even know what vaporware means? it's used for products announced way back when and that have been delayed to obscurity. Duke Nukem Forever is vaporware, this one isn't. If they won't release any products in the next couple of years then yes, it'll be vaporware. Right now it's a great idea, hope it manages to get off the ground
 
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