I love the idea behind the Sniper. They're aren't just pushing any old tech onto the most expensive card, to try and tempt the biggest spenders, they've given it some THOUGHT, and come up with a specific, completely plausible market segment.
All sorts of possibilities spring to mind with that half height 5770. It's got enough performance for a respectable LAN box so team that with a mini ITX and you could be looking at a seriously small system. I'm not keen on the idea of 40 mm fans but a custom water block could fix that...
I think the most exciting thing is if the lucid chip can be delivered on a graphics card... I love 3d vision and physx but ati cards are better value this gen and have eyefinity.
I'd drop a couple of hundred on a card that'd give me the best of both worlds even if there was only a 30% bump in performance overall.
Originally Posted by memeroot I think the most exciting thing is if the lucid chip can be delivered on a graphics card... I love 3d vision and physx but ati cards are better value this gen and have eyefinity.
I'd drop a couple of hundred on a card that'd give me the best of both worlds even if there was only a 30% bump in performance overall.
I believe the Lucid Hydra drivers replace both the AMD and Nvidia drivers, so you probably wouldn't get either 3DVision, Eyefinity or PhysX. At least that's what I believe to be the situation. If anyone can confirm/deny, go for it!
Originally Posted by mi1ez I believe the Lucid Hydra drivers replace both the AMD and Nvidia drivers, so you probably wouldn't get either 3DVision, Eyefinity or PhysX. At least that's what I believe to be the situation. If anyone can confirm/deny, go for it!
Nope, Eyefinity does work and can be boosted (admitedly only ~30% at present) by an nvidia card.
Not sure about other technologys such as using eyefinty that is boosted by an nvidia card, with the nvidia card providing physx at the same time, or if physx would work at all.
Howevwer looking at that ATI card with hydra, it appears to only sport 1 dvi, 1display port, and 1 svideo out connectors?
So 3 screen eyefinty may not be supported on this card.
Half height 5770 is a fantastic idea I think, now really tiny cases can have decent GPUs.
And the Evolution card is a great idea too, as it'll be a minority of motherboards that come with the Hydra on, so this allows others to boost their graphics quite easily.
If it came out now, and was decently priced, I might even buy one to pair with my 4870 :o
damn. I've always been a sapphire person when it comes to ATI cards but I'm going to have to give PowerColor a chance next time around if nVidia doesn't have something more attractive (which right now they don't).
Has anyone dealt with the possible issues that the Hydra chips may cause if you have one on your new Motherboard and another of the GPU card itself? Or will it be a simple like onboard sound Vs Soundcard and one is dominant or manually swtiched off?
I'm actually happy to switch eyefinity on/off depending on the game given many are not supported properly - similar to 3d vision or phys x
its more the ability to use which ever card gives the better experiance on a case by case basis - similarly if I can get an improvement in games which make no use of any of the above then all the better.
I think its the best of all worlds without having to get a new (expensive) mobo....
btw - it would make less sense if games actually maxed out my existing graphics card - but they dont, I just want to get some of the ati goodness without losing the benefits of my nvidia card.
As with others, half height 5770 sounds very good. If they do something with its price equivilent 6xxx next year when i get around to building my new system then i'd be very happy. Id love a miniITX system that is still powerful enough for 1080p gaming, seems very much that we're only a year or so off from my ideal computer.
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ReplyI don't suppose the Hydra card would theoretically work as the secondary card in a setup? (say a GTX495 as the primary)
I do however, like the half height 5770 though.
Let's see if you still feel like that when you have to deal with their RMA procedures....which is virtually non existent in the UK.
Like the half heigt card...shame it exhausts against a backplate.
that'd be an immediate buy
That said, with a second motherboard manufacturer looking at using the chip, there must be potential in there that we've not yet seen.
I'd drop a couple of hundred on a card that'd give me the best of both worlds even if there was only a 30% bump in performance overall.
Put the Sniper in a secondary PCI-E slot and use the new card's GPU for gaming? You might have driver hiccups, but that should work...
IIRC at that time it wasn't launched under PC name yet.
Nope, Eyefinity does work and can be boosted (admitedly only ~30% at present) by an nvidia card.
Not sure about other technologys such as using eyefinty that is boosted by an nvidia card, with the nvidia card providing physx at the same time, or if physx would work at all.
Here is a link to a review testing this out :)
http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8505
Howevwer looking at that ATI card with hydra, it appears to only sport 1 dvi, 1display port, and 1 svideo out connectors?
So 3 screen eyefinty may not be supported on this card.
Currently trying to find more info about it.
EDIT: looks like it sports 1x HDMI, 1x DVI, 1x DP :)
link
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/10-06-01/123b.jpg
And the Evolution card is a great idea too, as it'll be a minority of motherboards that come with the Hydra on, so this allows others to boost their graphics quite easily.
If it came out now, and was decently priced, I might even buy one to pair with my 4870 :o
its more the ability to use which ever card gives the better experiance on a case by case basis - similarly if I can get an improvement in games which make no use of any of the above then all the better.
I think its the best of all worlds without having to get a new (expensive) mobo....
btw - it would make less sense if games actually maxed out my existing graphics card - but they dont, I just want to get some of the ati goodness without losing the benefits of my nvidia card.
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