MSI Big Bang
MSI prepares to release three P55 motherboards,the highest-end of which is Big Bang with Lucid Hydra 200,placed between the CPU socket and the first PCI-Express x16 slot.MSI Big Bang P55 displayed at Intel IDF. Hydra is a real-time distributed processing engine which will direct graphic processing traffic between GPUs in a highly-efficient efficient manner, thus delivering improved graphics performance when using multi-GPU setups. Lucids solution also offers interoperability with all GPUs, making it possible to combine different card models from the same maker and even two (or more) cards from different companies.
Lucid Hydra 200 chip
Lucid Hydra 200 architecture
Dual-card setup
quad-card setup
Apart from the Hydra chip, the Big Bang board features support for LGA 1156 CPUs, four DDR3 memory slots, three PCI-Express x16 slots, ten SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, dual Gigabit Ethernet, 7.1 channel audio, and the OC Genie function. MSIs first Hydra-based Big Bang comes with P55 chipset and has three PCI-E slots.Lucid also displays the system with GeForce GTX260 and Radeon HD4890.Bioshock and FEAR 2 have better performance in multi-graphics system.Even if a problem occurs,users can disable Hydra at any time,leaving only one graphics running.
A/N setup
disable hydra
At the initial shipment of Big Bang,Hydra drivers only support multi-graphics setup from the same vendor.The official drivers for A/N setup will launch in Q1 of 2010. At the same time,Hydra drivers offer mere support for Windows 7. MSIA Big Bang P55 is expected to go public in one month.Lucid also reveals each PCI-E costs $1.5.This system are open to all chipsets,motherboards as well as graphics instead of exclusive to Intel motherboards.
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