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 […]
LucidLogix’s Hydra graphics engine allows any motherboard infused with its awesome powers to accept graphics cards from the two major manufacturers and allows them to work in tandem as a Multi-GPU solution that doesn’t take into account CrossFireX or SLI capabilities. The technology does have its merits but it required motherboard manufacturers to add quite […]
Read more Lucid UNITY enables HYDRALOGIX Multi-GPU graphics processing possible for all
There has been a trend at the top of the motherboard market which sees a number of high priced models which push every conceivable barrier in the race to have the most powerful PC possible. The Gigabyte GA-X58-UD9 motherboard comes in at a wallet busting $700 US MSRP which is quite a bit for anything […]
The biggest question you would face when looking for a gaming performance improvement was which graphics card was the one to buy, now you’re faced with which platform to choose for that extra special multi-GPU performance push as well as which graphics cards to buy. You just can’t win. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 and 480 […]
Read more NVIDIA Fermi SLI scales quite nicely thank you very much
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 […]
Read more ASUS ROG Immensity Motherboard Concept is very multi-GPU friendly
NVIDIA’s GF100 GPU had a rough first go of it but with its newer driver sets and improved coolers coming to the market it’s hard to pass up its performance and feature set. The new GeForce GTX 465 fights for some mid-range recognition by dropping a few computing elements and a bit of memory bandwidth […]
Read more NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 Graphics Cards enjoy the speed at a lower price
While the top-end of the graphics card segment is always on the mind of the performance gamer there’s something to be said for aiming just a tiny bit lower, especially when it can save you a bit of your hard earned money in the end. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 in an SLI setup provides a […]
Read more NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 SLI is the high-end consolation prize
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
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
The thought of a computer using two graphics cards from very different graphics chip vendors would seem absurd, or even vaporware in the eyes of many…well it would seem we all have a bit of rethinking to do over the…
Intel’s X58 Express chipset has been a solid partner to the company’s Core i7 processor for a good while now but in the hands of some experience engineers and, lets face it, performance crazed individuals things can be taken to…
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