Crosshair IV Extreme

[TheBlueChanell]

Tbh I wouldn't count on seeing it this year, especially with the Formula doing so well.
Perhaps with the next wave of new CPU's?

That would be unfortunate as I'd really like to see the hydra chip and have sli capability on my amd setup.

I was hoping someone would have some inside info

[kull]

That would be unfortunate as I'd really like to see the hydra chip and have sli capability on my amd setup.

I was hoping someone would have some inside info

Don't mix Hydra N mode with SLI. They are both offering nvidia multi-gpu setups but they're aren't working the same way. Also Hydra N is much more dependent of good game profiles made by Lucid driver team and till now multi-gpu scaling is not so good as the official nvidia SLI. The only good thing is that Hydra N supports 2 different nvidia gpus in multi gpu mode that SLI doesn't.

Guru3D review of MSI Big Bang Fusion was few months ago but it was very nice and very informative regarding Hydra and it's modes:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-bi...review-test/22

They tested with Hydra driver 1.4 and N mode didn't work at all. It also lacked GeForce 4xx support and DX11 too.
There are new Hydra drivers 1.6 so their team is working hard to polish the drivers but still beside interesting Mode X (nvidia + AMD) I think that the genuine SLI and Crossfire multi-gpu options are better choice.
http://www.lucidlogix.com/driverdownloads-driver3.html

Hydra really looks promising but the fact that is fully dependent of drivers from nvidia and AMD at the same time doesn't look good for it. (Lucid Hydra drivers are installing on a top of Forceware, Catalyst, or Forceware and Catalyst together)