Quote Originally Posted by Nedjo View Post
or total lack of interest among mobo makers to go in full production beyond quantities they got for super-sweet deal!?

Xoulz I can see you're in to all this Hydra thing, but honestly and with market reality in mind do you really see the point of this tech for desktop users?

Mobo makers know very well how much they sell SLi and CFX mobos, and they know very well how big is this multi-card market, and how much of it would go for mixed red-green systems, especially when there are no comparable (DX11) green card, and where only handfull of hardcore fanboys are getting second NV card for playing their three PhysX games!

See... if mobo makers need to make choice to put USB 3.0, or Hydra chip on board, and rise the price! They'll go for USB 3.0!

Hydra is DOA, and only chance for it is in GPU cloud farms - market that's yet to be created.

My friend, there is no longer denying it, HYDRA is here. It's agnostic, you don't need SLI or Crossfire. You be able to plop down a Larrabee next to your Radeon 5970 and have everything you want. It makes things simple and modular. How can that not be a boon for desktop users..?

Secondly, MSI has exclusive right to the Hydra chip... for how long, we don't know.


The H200 chip uses like 3 watts and as the name suggest, scalable.. (3 exact video cards are no longer a requirement. You can have 9800, grab another, then 2 months later find a great buy on a GTX 275 and have all three in your rig). Or, later.. mix and match across vendors.

How is this poo poo technology relegated to just fanboy's or non-desktop users..?