Here BIG step up from Scan Line Interface, where one or other card or split top/bottom or interlaced one line then other line from other card is your choice. THIs is Monster, Doing Everything Anywhere it can find space.

Best part is, if one card can only do 25% of load, whole process does not hae to slow down, it can break job down according top cards ability. However, how variant can identical cards be?

Smoother its organized better.
drashek

...but will it play Crysis!!!!

Just kidding. If this works the way its being hyped it'll be the defacto standard for all gaming motherboards within weeks of its release.

The idea of throwing a couple of $120 8800GT cards in a hydra board and having a GTX280 beater is outstanding.

I see this as a huge boon to Nvidia and ATI because now people won't be as hesitant to upgrade while they are waiting for "the next big thing".

It's alot easier to commit to a purchase when you know that it'll still be worth something as a booster card on your hydra motherboard down the road.

Dear lord I hope this isn't all a bunch of hype. This would be a revolution for both budget gamers and "at all costs" benchmark zealots.






About bloody time. I've always thought this is the way it should be done. It seems silly to do it any other way!

Now we can finally see what crysis looks like at the highest quality settings.

It's cute to throw around words like magic but that does not explain how the drivers are suppose to deal with this, and who makes those drivers, you can't for instance use many functions available on a dx10.1 class GPU on older dx9 or dx10 cards (or dx10 on dx9 etc.), meaning you cannot draw half the screen with one driver and the other half with another, in fact not even the same DXVA dunctionality can be counted on or used, then there's the overlay surface issues if you try to use it for video.
It might work somewhat with corporation of the makers of the graphics card (nvidia/AT) to use it to offload non-graphical stuff, but if anybody believes this will 'magically' work with any card combination he/she is a not too informed person.

Windows only allows one video driver to work at a time.

Well, the chipmaker who have no Multi-GPU solution right now. If you check the inverstors on the Lucid Logix website, you will see Giza, Genesis (2 well known investors in IT tech) and finally, Intel Capital. It add alot of serious to the news and the Hydra project...

...they'll get bought. Probably by AMD/ATI, as they are in less trouble now than Nvidia, and Intel probably doesn't care enough.

...then again, they might be fodder for someone like Via or SiS who needs a bit of a boost to become relevant (again).

I find it highly unlikely that, if the product does what it says on the box, that this little company will be independant for long.

This is really awesome and I really hope it works as advertised. I also hope Lucid doesn't get bought out by one of the big boys.

I wonder why it took a small no name startup to come up with this tech, when nVidia and ATI have been trying to get it right for years. It's probably too early to say this but what the heck, congrats Lucid.

I really like it when a little unheard of company comes up with an awesome idea like this. I just hope it works better than anything DAMMIT or nVidia have come up with... I swear one of the big selling points of CF originally was that it could intelligently split the frame between gpu's. I wonder what the difference is? Is it just better because it's on the mobo itself?

no doubt that if this works the way it is supposed to it will be the holy grail of multi GPU for more then just graphics acceletarion, this is essentially the ultimate in split load parallel processing and can be applied to more then just graphics rendering, i would reckon that this would work far more efficiently then SLI and Crossfire and no doubt a mobo with one of these in with the same configuration will have a far higher score in benchmark testing, but no doubt if it does we will end up with AMD or Nvidia Tryign to buy the company and integrate it into their Crossfire or SLI tech

i dont believe you ...sounds way too good to be true...just like all the SLI hype when that came out..sounds like total marketing guff

believe it when i see it

If this even comes close to how you just explained it, this is GOLD. This could do away with the pesky SLi integration altogether. Will it be out in time for a few X-58 manufacturers, who may be biding there time, to integrate? I just wished you mentioned the price point. If it does what you say it does, without breaking the bank, we have a winner.



hmmmmmm, if this thing works as suggested, could it put an end to, 'mines bigger than yours' syndrome ??

errrrrrrm i dont think dammit and graphzilla will like this one little bit (time for lucid to dissapear into a black hole ??) shame ya cant use red AND green cards together O_o

lucid reckons ray tracings gonna be eazy peazy too, time to dig out those 3dfx voodoooooooooos ?? :O)

"Pick any four GPUs from a given manufacturer, and throw them at a machine."

Really?!? So Shader & DirectX versions and have nothing to do with it?

That's nice....

It is nice to realize that my neighbors did this interesting "magic" thing.

The real question is what will M/B companies do with it.
They can simply avoid using it because of GPU makers pressure.

But i definitely buy one :)

"from a given manufacturer". Does that mean it cant mix AMD and nVidia cards ? Why not?