Guru3D and Anandtech have posted reviews on the MSI Big Bang Fuzion motherboard. This motherboard comes with the Lucid Hydra chip. Lucid is a chip designer company with funding from Intel. The Hydra chip is an independent solution to allow multiple GPUs to render scenes in games. This means that you are no longer dependent on SLI from NVidia or Crossfire from ATI. The MSI Big Bang Fuzion motherboard has been delayed until some time in Q1 2010, which is basically anytime in the next three months. From the Anandtech review:
We’ve had the Fuzion in our hands for over a month now, as the hardware has been ready well ahead of the software. Lucid has been continuing to develop the software side, and the two parties are finally ready to sign off on the finished product, although Hydra is still very much a work in progress.
Interestingly enough, we had posted a link to [H]ard|OCP’s review of the same motherboard back on December 9th. That review seems to be missing from [H]ard|OCP’s website now. That is curious. I wonder if the reason the article disappeared was due to the improvements made over the past month. Perhaps later today we will see an article from [H]ard|OCP. Switching over to the Guru3D review:
One can easily make the mistake that this review is solely about the Hydra chip used on the Big Bang Fuzion motherboard. In the grand scheme of things the Hydra chip is merely a little extra lovin’ to play around with and as such it should be seen that way. We definitely like what Lucid is trying to accomplish, but we also have to acknowledge that we ran into quite a lot of problems, compatibility issues and sheer limitations. Where it works it can work well, but in the end, in this time and age, the combination of two similar Radeons in Crossfire or two NVIDIA GeForce cards in SLI will simple make much more sense as you by far will not have to deal with the profile support and compatibility issues.
via Guru3D : MSI Big bang Fuzion (Lucid Hydra) review
via Anandtech: Lucid’s Hydra Unleashed: Part 1
