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  1. 10-03-10, 05:35 PM #1
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    MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board


    Cebit 2010: 870A-GD60 Hydra



    Those who wandered around MSI’s booth got a chance to peek at the company’s upcoming motherboard – the MSI 870A-GD60 Hydra.



    As the name suggests, the motherboard comes with Lucid’s Hydra chip on AMD’s socket AM3 platform and it is based on AMD’s 870 + SB850 chipset. It features two full-bandwidth PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, three PCI-Express x1 slot and one PCI slot. The board has four DDR3 DIMM slots for dual channel memory.



    MSI’s 870-A-GD60 Hydra comes with six internal SATA 6Gbps ports, two USB 3.0 ports, a number of USB 2.0 ports, FireWire, 8 channel HD audio with SPDIF and eSATA via an extra controller.



    As you probably concluded for yourself, the Hydra chip will allow for what many fanboys will call sacrilege scenarios, where you can pair up two cards made by Nvidia and ATI. So theoretically, you could take ATI’s HD 5970 card and pair it up with a nice pocket of still marchitectural air called Fermi, and do some DX11 gaming with help from both companies. Well, just one for now.










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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    nVidia and ATI Gpus together! Thats interesting. But I would like to see how it affects the performance! ImHO, ati-ati or nvidia-nvidia would be better.

    Whos getting one to find out?
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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    Nvidia for PhsyX(if needed) and then a ATI GPU
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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    Quote Originally Posted by iaudio
    nVidia and ATI Gpus together! Thats interesting. But I would like to see how it affects the performance! ImHO, ati-ati or nvidia-nvidia would be better.

    Whos getting one to find out?


    There are reviews on the net. Check them out. Not too impressive btw.



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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    MSI has a similar board out for the X58, "Big Bang Fuzion". In order to get the red/green cards to work together, the unified Hydra Drivers are needed, which are specific to a game.
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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    Ati(gpu) + Nvidia(physx) = ftw for time being.

    No need of Hydra.
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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    Quote Originally Posted by asingh
    MSI has a similar board out for the X58, "Big Bang Fuzion". In order to get the red/green cards to work together, the unified Hydra Drivers are needed, which are specific to a game.


    Big bang Fuzion is for P55 Chipset ...costing around 22k.
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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    ^^

    Correct its for the P55, not X58. Thanks.
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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    Quote Originally Posted by rahul1059
    Ati(gpu) + Nvidia(physx) = ftw for time being.

    No need of Hydra.


    I thought Nvidia automatically disables Physx if it detects another manufacturer's (read Ati) harware in the system, or has that changed recently??



    This was last July:



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    Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board

    ^^

    You will be using Hydra drivers.
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