Hydra is coming!!

[hiro]

That would be cool if they could pull it off . ..

It would be the best, being able to mix and match video cards. I do hope this becomes a mobo standard . . .



If BOB SOW came out next summer, though I wouldn't build a machine with Hydra, unless reviews are very favorable, and Oleg n Co say its supported. Its too new . . . I'd wait until 2nd or later generations (usually I wait longer)








The review said it worked good, and if they get drivers compatibility and direct X support that'd be something.

And its funny because if this is adopted, it would put a dent in Nvidia, since most people will buy a motherboard if you can dual different types of videocards w/out issues. SLI and Crossfire would be phased out.

It would be awesome for me, because those motherboards would be sold for cheap!



Hopefully they can fix the issues outlined in the article and it works like a charm.

Seems that Nvidia tried doing what Hyprda does and couldn't get it to work:

"very ambitious," "an enormous technological challenge," a position the firm (Nvidia) has rather curiously communicated at every opportunity. "







I kind of noticed a red flag, because the Lucid VP Belz "seemed surprised when he asked what percentage of prospective Hydra buyers might wish to run Windows 7 immediately and we answered, "Uhh... 99%."

It wasn't no mystery that Vista sucked, and that Windows 7 wasn't a sudden thing . . .





The dependence on fixing issues on per game basis is good attention to quality, but also a double edged sword, you're left at the mercy of game developers and video card manufacturers, need to coordinate with both to get something working.



Say a game was released and sold 7 million copies in 24 hours . . . It works on all systems but the Hydra causes glitches / aritfacts and sometimes crash to desktops.

They try to work with Game company that sold 7 million but they're busy selling, Game co drags its feet. It easier to post on the website, has issues with Hydra system, we working on it . . . and fix it later. Bad customer service but a reality sometimes . . .

They work with Nvidea and ATI, but Nvidea realizes a chance to ding the competition. So Nvidea drags its feet too.

Then the most popular game can't be played on Hydra based systems. And some can't wait 3-4 mo's for the fix. Then the whiners come out and even though 5 months later its all fixed, Hydra's got a bad name.



Granted this is only because Hydra is new and not industry standard, if it becomes one like SLI, the games will have to support it . . .





What sucks for Lucid is if this takes off and becomes a market standard, the big dogs like Intel and AMD will realize this the way to go and make their own version of chipsets that do what Hydra does . . .