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gibbersome — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:26:41 GMT

Hehe, I think I'd just wait till the motherboard price comes down to below $200-250. It's a terrific tech that'll only get better. Plus, not enthusiast gamers won't have to worry about switching between ATI and Nvidia when they purchase the latest cards every 6 months.

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Soupstyle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:56:14 GMT

My next build will be whenever Lucid gets a motherboard mfgr to release an AMD board with the Hybrid chip on it (I think I'll have enough money by them).

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gibbersome — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:38:15 GMT

Yeah, it's very exciting. And the scaling is remarkable. HotHardware did a review of them back in November, look at this graph and the performance of the HD 4890/GT 260 combination. It's right in between Dual 260 and Dual 4890's!

Link to the rest of the review: http://hothardware.com/Articles/Lucid-Hydra-200-MultiGPU-Performance-Revealed/?page=1

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rapid1 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:53:47 GMT

Yeah the hydra chip is going to change some things for sure. Think about running a 295 and a 5970 together with a 5850 or 285 physics card. I actually find it quite funny with my 5850 I can generally just crank everything up all the way and still get great frame rates. The software market really needs to step up and give us something that can make use of the current hardware. Not to mention Nvidia will be dropping a new video card sometime this quarter, and ATI may to (either this quarter or next). So we are at a period where the graphics market is really beyond the requirements of the software. I have not seen it like this in quite a few years.

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gibbersome — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:31:46 GMT

"But one of the products that caught our eye was the Big Bang Fuzion motherboard which features Lucid's Hydra chip and supports the combination of ATI and NVIDIA videocards."

I was wondering what became of Lucid's Hydra chip...so this is absolutely awesome! Yes folks, this is MSI's motherboard which will offer cross-vendor GPU support (you can insert any combination of Nvidia or ATI into the motherboard). The motherboard will have the LGA1156 socket, capable of supporting Intel’s Core i3/i5/i7 processors, anduses the Intel P55 chipset, has 3 PCI Express x16 slots, and supports SLI and ATI Crossfire configs!! I don't know if it will support USB 3.0 though.

Also, it's already on retail in Japan for ~$400. For a starting point, that's not bad all. It will continue to drop as more and more motherboard support the technology. The other great thing about Lucid Hydra was that SLI and Crossfire are supposed to scale a lot better with it. This would be a bigger advantage for ATI as their Crossfire has usually trailed SLI in performance.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/14024/msi_s_lucid_hydra_equipped_big_bang_fuzion_spotted_on_sale_in_japan/

RE: CES 2010 Highlight Wrap-Up In Video and Pictures

rapid1 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:26:54 GMT

yeah that sounds pretty accurate gibber like everything else at CES it does more faster with more interaction on tap. The moveme!nt of technology in general is at an incredibly fast pace. I am currently reading an article in Popular Mechanic about robots. They say we will have them for general usage (Humanized Robots) in 5 years. Can you believe that 5 years !

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gibbersome — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:05:48 GMT

Yeah, they're using the same designation for their Asus Eee Keyboard.

It has a 5 inch touchscreen, 1.6GHz Atom N270, 1GB memory, and a 16 GB SSD drive. It also has WiDi to send your display out to a TV screen or other monitor. Essentially it's like a keyboad-all-in-one, lol. It's a really cool idea and given more powerful hardware, I can see it becoming a mainstay in some media centers.

Just imagine coming home from work and sitting on your recliner and instead of going for the remote you reach for your keyboard instead!

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Soupstyle — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:31:12 GMT

@gibber's animal girls

wtf? lol that is messed up.

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rapid1 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:25:12 GMT

I think it's a netbook but they use the Eee for several things I believe

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EnigmaCypher7 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:15:46 GMT

You know you want to.....(=P)

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gibbersome — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:08:15 GMT

I was wondering about that too.

Also, is the Asus Eee a computer in a keyboard?

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gibbersome — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:49:47 GMT

So what is this fascination with girls with animal paint?

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Soupstyle — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:38:23 GMT

Also that huge multi-touch display is awesome. I wish I had the resources to be able to run those Eyefinity displays too, so cool!

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Soupstyle — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:28:16 GMT

I totally want that Republic of Gamers PC, so awesome looking. Can anyone tell me what that Cooler Master cooling unit was?

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Dave_HH — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:46:50 GMT

Hmm... interesting idea.