Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Motherboard (LucidLogix Chipset) Now Available!

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After many long months of waiting for the Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra, Newegg has become the first hardware etailer to sell this incredible enthusiast LGA 1155 motherboard in the United States. The board features a LucidLogix Hydra chipset rather than a traditional Intel chipset and allows a mix of graphics configurations to be used with varying GPU types, brands and architectures. Notably, however, is the fact that this board promises enthusiasts highly efficient GPU load balancing with near-linear performance increases for multi-GPU configurations (particularly for Triple CrossFireX, Quad-CrossFireX, Triple-SLI and Quad-SLI).

Newegg - Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Motherboard - $229.99









"The implementation of the Hydra engine is done in ASIC hardware with the support of a software driver. The ASIC is located between the Northbridge and the GPUs, as shown in the figure. The Hydra engine scales performance of multi-GPU configurations from any GPU vender and will scale relative to each GPU's individual performance. In other words, the GPUs do not need to be identical. The Hydra ASIC handles all connectivity between the CPU, the GPU, and between the GPUs through a full-duplex wired speed implementation. As such, the solution is connector free and does not require any GPU to GPU connector." - Lucid


A buddy of mine is ordering this board and I will be doing some EVGA GeForce GTX 590 Classified Quad-SLI benchmarks with the Lucid Hydra chipset in comparison to an EVGA X58 SLI Classified E759 nForce 200 Limited Edition motherboard. \m/