LucidLogix Hydra, madness?

Silent_Buddha said:
Well, presumably Intel has done some testing and determined it worked well enough for their needs.
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If they had had a design win for an actual Intel product sure ... engineers would have to sign off on that. I doubt engineers sign off on Intel Capital investments.
 
MfA said:
If they had had a design win for an actual Intel product sure ... engineers would have to sign off on that. I doubt engineers sign off on Intel Capital investments.
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Bugger, that's all it is? Heh, here I was thinking Intel had actually started using it. Ah well, that's what I get for wishful thinking.

Regards,
SB
 
Well, at least rumors say that Intel has decided to use it on rev 2 'Smackover' X58 boards, no official confirmations yet, though
 
If its as good as advertised then there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Maybe even ati and nvidia use it. I hope it is not like most things, when they sound too good to be true, they aren't...
 
Nah, if they had design wins for products coming out in H2-2009 they would have said so ... chips are coming out H2-2009.
 
Anyone who has a PLX chip that makes two cards run together could be Lucid’s potential customer, and obviously some guys are interested. This leaves a lot of unclear questions to be answered, as we suspect that both ATI and Nvidia might have something against a chip that makes SLI and Crossfire look like child's play, and that this could lead to a driver that will block Lucid’s ability to shine.
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the usual "crowd common knowledge" or simple said FUD. gave me some bad side hurts while reading it,,,to much LOL i guess...

adapt, handle and finally try to survive.
 
Sounds like typical Fuad BS. ATI and NVIDIA would "have something against" a product that encourages people to buy more GPUs???
 
Since the Hydra chip is supposed to intercept command traffic, just what could GPU providers do that wouldn't bork their cards in the process?
 
Unlike Nvidia, I don't believe ATI charges for a chip that is supposedly required for it to work. I believe they only block Nvidia chipset boards because they are a direct competitor and thus don't want to spend the resources to validate SLI boards to work with Crossfire.

So there's no real reason for them to block Crossfire from working on boards equipped with the Lucid chip. Especially if Intel adopts it.

Added to that if there IS a tangible gain and improved performance from the Lucid chip, I'm sure ATI would be glad to stop dumping money into R&D into Crossfire except if it's necessary to enable 2+ chips on a card designs. Although again if the Lucid chip works better than existing Crossfire implementations, I'm sure ATI wouldn't mind dropping the R&D and using it.

Assuming of course the cost of the chips or licensing isn't outrageous.

Regards,
SB
 
SB,
Crossfire works fine on nvidia chipset boards. Some vendors like Alienware will have ATi certify the board for them.
 
Foodman said:
SB,
Crossfire works fine on nvidia chipset boards. Some vendors like Alienware will have ATi certify the board for them.
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Yes, but only on the boards OEM manufacturers get verified themselves, not on standard nF's you buy from the store
 
Cost effective is probably relative, PCI-Express expansion backplanes are expensive even without the Hydra chip. I'd be surprised if it's under a 1000 euro.

I doubt they will provide any review samples to people who will run the kind of benchmarks we want to see.
 
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