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MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
10 Mar 10 06:35 PM #1
is Offline Courage to Know
Join Date: Nov 2009Location: KolkataAge: 19Posts: 1,274
Fudzilla - MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD boardCebit 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
10 Mar 10 07:07 PM #2is Offline Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009Posts: 26 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? -
Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
10 Mar 10 07:11 PM #3
is Online Explosive Member Join Date: Apr 2009Location: Pudukkottai,TNPosts: 2,426 Nvidia for PhsyX(if needed) and then a ATI GPU
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Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
10 Mar 10 07:18 PM #4is Offline Steroids Member Join Date: Oct 2009Location: BangaloreAge: 19Posts: 332 There are reviews on the net. Check them out. Not too impressive btw.
Originally Posted by iaudio 
See anandtech... -
Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
10 Mar 10 08:11 PM #5
is Offline Explosive Member Join Date: Jun 2009Location: New DelhiPosts: 2,015 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
10 Mar 10 10:15 PM #6
is Offline Hyperactive Member Join Date: Apr 2008Posts: 122 Ati(gpu) + Nvidia(physx) = ftw for time being.
No need of Hydra. -
Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
11 Mar 10 12:17 AM #7
is Offline Overloaded Member Join Date: Dec 2007Posts: 529 Big bang Fuzion is for P55 Chipset ...costing around 22k. Originally Posted by asingh -
Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
11 Mar 10 08:31 AM #8 is Offline Explosive Member Join Date: Jun 2009Location: New DelhiPosts: 2,015 ^^
Correct its for the P55, not X58. Thanks. -
Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
11 Mar 10 02:24 PM #9
is Online Fanatic Member Join Date: Sep 2009Posts: 272 I thought Nvidia automatically disables Physx if it detects another manufacturer's (read Ati) harware in the system, or has that changed recently?? Originally Posted by rahul1059
This was last July:
Nvidia disables PhysX when ATI card is present -
Re: MSI sneaks Hydra onto its AMD board
11 Mar 10 02:29 PM #10 is Offline Explosive Member Join Date: Jun 2009Location: New DelhiPosts: 2,015 ^^
You will be using Hydra drivers.
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