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.