Lucid Hydra

by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2010 · 0 comments

MSI 870A Fuzion gaming Motherboard Lucid Hydra image

The majority of enthusiasts build machines with their eye on all-out gaming performance which, more often than not, relies on graphics cards doing the heavy lifting. MSI has paired up the distinctively low-end AMD 770 chipset with Lucid’s Hydra frame gathering chip for a decidedly weird but totally workable motherboard. The Hydra chip enables you […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 3, 2010 · 0 comments

The trouble with product concepts is that they tend to get your hopes very high then there’s a long lull in news before you hear the plans have been dropped or they’re not nearly as impressive once launched. That doesn’t mean we’ll stop getting our hopes up. The ASUS ROG Immensity Motherboard Concept sports a […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 8, 2010 · 0 comments

Using multiple graphics cards to improve gaming performance has been a reasonable solution for over a decade now but that usually means being locked into a specific vendor at best and the same specific model of graphics card at worst. In comes the MSI Big Bang Fuzion which uses the Lucid Hydra 200 chip that […]

Read more MSI Big Bang Fuzion puts on a Multi-GPU magic show

by Rafael Hernandez on November 11, 2009 · 0 comments

There was a time when you’d have to stick to one of the two graphics chips makers in case you wanted, some day, the Multi-GPU upgrade option. Heck you even had to stay within the same card generation, same specs as well, if you wanted that sweet sweet frame rate boost two graphics cards offered. […]

Read more Lucid Hydra 200 brings multiple vendor graphics cards together at last