Lucid Hydra for MSI 'Big Bang' Motherboard

[RobRich]

IOPanel is offering a quick glimpse of the MSI "Big Bang" motherboard sporting the Lucid Hydra chip for multi-GPU rendering using different video card models. No word yet on availability or pricing.

The Big Bang, which is a P55 motherboard with Lucid Hydra chip - which should enable the operation of NVIDIA and ATI based video cards on the same motherboard.

Source: IOPanel

[ShyguyXPC]

looks interesting, should be pretty sweet if and when it does come out.

though for clarification on the quote above:

The Lucid Hydra chip, as mentioned before should enable the use of 2
different video cards together on the same motherboard.
We have been told in the past that there will be different versions of the
chip - one will enable the usage of video cards like HD4870 along with a
HD4650 for example , another version will enable the usage of NVIDIA based
video cards together - like a GTX260 together with 9600GT for example,
and of course one version will enable a mix of video cards -ATI video card
together with a Nvidia video card on the same motherboard.
The Hydra chip is responsible for the Balance and link between the different
video cards.