Saturday, January 21st 2012
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LucidLogix Laying Hydra To Rest?
When it first made news, it drew some shock and awe reactions from the community. LucidLogix' Hydra Engine promised enthusiasts the ability to mix and match multiple GPUs of any make, model, and generation, a model that threatened to shatter AMD CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI. When it was finally introduced it worked, the performance scaling between identical GPUs wasn't spectacular compared to native technologies (SLI/CrossFire), but it worked as advertised.
A report by Overclockers Ukraine suggests that Lucid is finding hardware-based Hydra Engine technologies obsolete since there's close to zero patronage, and that both Intel and AMD chipsets are supporting both SLI and CrossFire (with some riders). Hydra as a concept, itself evolved to Lucid Virtu and XLR8. An MSI representative told OCUA that the company doesn't have any products in the pipeline that uses Hydra. MSI designed a few motherboards in the past, based on Lucid Hydra.
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Overclockers Ukraine
A report by Overclockers Ukraine suggests that Lucid is finding hardware-based Hydra Engine technologies obsolete since there's close to zero patronage, and that both Intel and AMD chipsets are supporting both SLI and CrossFire (with some riders). Hydra as a concept, itself evolved to Lucid Virtu and XLR8. An MSI representative told OCUA that the company doesn't have any products in the pipeline that uses Hydra. MSI designed a few motherboards in the past, based on Lucid Hydra.
15 Comments on LucidLogix Laying Hydra To Rest?
Shifting to this I guess?
MS licenses it, puts it into the next version of Home Server and now your family runs on thin client displays. Same for cafes, and perhaps those remote gaming services (if they're still around).
Face it .. when dealing with addicts it is hard to get them too change their or stop their drug of choice.
They made so far so many stupid mistakes that I am not really surprised, if some company like Intel would buy them off now cheap since Lucidlogix is worth 1 cent after they started messing with end users systems having capabilities buy Lucidlogix blocking people from using them. Now everyone knows Lucidlogix cannot be trusted to by Z68 chipset integration crap.
I would change the text on this news:
* They promised a lot when they got people thinking their software/hardware systems could join power they delivered zero to anyone.