Oh dear. Intel is an investor in Lucid. It seems that that a Lucid / Larrabee combo would win the epic fail / might have well spent the money on shiny things award 2010
sad it's so dependent on software to work.. as it's obviously superior to crossfire/sli when it does- that in itself should be enough to consider this over sli and crossfire
if it worked in tandem with sli/crossfire, that would solve alot of the boo-hooing over the software as you could just kick it in whatever mode worked at the time.. sli and crossfire suck worse imo and are software dependent as well
Its a start but and epic fail. Sorta like a young child trying to walk for the 1st time. Lets hope in the next few years it can pick itself up and run. If not, a late term abortion is on the cards!
I did get the impression when i heard about this project that it was a tad ambitious. It just seems like a hell of a lot of investment in time & effort for very little tangible benefit, on the software side.
Not sure if you've seen it, but on Guru3D They apparently test MW2 on hydra? Maybe they used a newer/beta driver? Sorry if ive missed it in the article.
Bugger. Major egg on face of both Lucid and MSI, and its a shame as price aside the board looks great and the idea would be the holy grail of gfx cards.
By why are there profiles for individual games? I thought the driver was to be completely agnostic of anything? Also what happend to the promise of running 4x cards at 100% power each? SLI/CFX already do a good job of 2 GPU's, its the 3'rd/4'th were they are wasted.
I dont think the performance rating was really fair to give, seeing how new it is, how innovative and different it is, and for the most part a pre-release and what it has really achieved alone is pretty huge in freeing the market.
Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn I dont think the performance rating was really fair to give, seeing how new it is, how innovative and different it is, and for the most part a pre-release and what it has really achieved alone is pretty huge in freeing the market.
no-one noticed?
2x Zotac GeForce GTX 260(-216) AMP²! 896MB (in both Hydra and CrossFire modes on either motherboard)
fourth page. I doubt you used crossfire on the nvidia cards.
Originally Posted by korhojoa no-one noticed?
2x Zotac GeForce GTX 260(-216) AMP²! 896MB (in both Hydra and CrossFire modes on either motherboard)
fourth page. I doubt you used crossfire on the nvidia cards.
Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn I dont think the performance rating was really fair to give, seeing how new it is, how innovative and different it is, and for the most part a pre-release and what it has really achieved alone is pretty huge in freeing the market.
Meh, it has to be a fair representation of the part's performance as reviewed, not of its potential or how innovative it is. I for one would be very annoyed if I bought this off the back of a BT review expecting great performance and didn't get it. Maybe it can be revisited in a few months, or maybe the next version will be better, but a BT performance score must be just that: perfomance on the day, nothing more nothing less.
Originally Posted by eddtox Meh, it has to be a fair representation of the part's performance as reviewed, not of its potential or how innovative it is. I for one would be very annoyed if I bought this off the back of a BT review expecting great performance and didn't get it. Maybe it can be revisited in a few months, or maybe the next version will be better, but a BT performance score must be just that: perfomance on the day, nothing more nothing less.
ya but even still from the results I saw this new tech was still holding its own against tried and true multicard solutions and yet it still got a 2? come on...
Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn ya but even still from the results I saw this new tech was still holding its own against tried and true multicard solutions and yet it still got a 2? come on...
Well, thats just it, really. It seems that it brings nothing new to the table - no improvements over existing solutions and therefore it is superfluous. I think for a solution like this to take of it doesn't just need to equal existing hardware, it needs to surpass it, in order to justify its £268 price tag. As things stand, there doesn't seem to be any reason to buy it. Get rid of the fuzion malarky, halve the price and maybe we've got a very good mobo, but atm it's just meh
Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn ya but even still from the results I saw this new tech was still holding its own against tried and true multicard solutions and yet it still got a 2? come on...
It's not at all, please read the results again. :)
SINGLE CARDS are faster in many cases and the performance in normal CrossFire and SLI is most often far more consistent. There was stuttering issues and general limitations all over the place.
We don't review products on promises and it's available to buy right now, with "retail" drivers. We will come back to it in the future to check other driver releases :)
ehh I guess people are fine with being controlled on what they can and cant do, personally I like getting away from proprietary setups. The idea of mixing different generations of cards to make them useful and that off different competitors is fantastic, yes its not like that now with the current drivers but that is their goal. Oh well maybe it will get a fair chance once the driver develop a bit more down the road.
Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn ehh I guess people are fine with being controlled on what they can and cant do, personally I like getting away from proprietary setups. The idea of mixing different generations of cards to make them useful and that off different competitors is fantastic, yes its not like that now with the current drivers but that is their goal. Oh well maybe it will get a fair chance once the driver develop a bit more down the road.
so, it's worth it to you to pay more and get significantly less performance (and sometimes unplayable) so you're not "controlled" in this scenario?
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ReplyI mean, fantastic demonstration of technology, but ultimately a bit pointless...
if it worked in tandem with sli/crossfire, that would solve alot of the boo-hooing over the software as you could just kick it in whatever mode worked at the time.. sli and crossfire suck worse imo and are software dependent as well
http://guru3d.com/article/msi-big-bang-fuzion-lucid-hydra-review-test/27
By why are there profiles for individual games? I thought the driver was to be completely agnostic of anything? Also what happend to the promise of running 4x cards at 100% power each? SLI/CFX already do a good job of 2 GPU's, its the 3'rd/4'th were they are wasted.
sorta like the toyota puris?
;)
I put it next to the DFI LanParty ICFX3200T2RG
2x Zotac GeForce GTX 260(-216) AMP²! 896MB (in both Hydra and CrossFire modes on either motherboard)
fourth page. I doubt you used crossfire on the nvidia cards.
oops :) will fix
Meh, it has to be a fair representation of the part's performance as reviewed, not of its potential or how innovative it is. I for one would be very annoyed if I bought this off the back of a BT review expecting great performance and didn't get it. Maybe it can be revisited in a few months, or maybe the next version will be better, but a BT performance score must be just that: perfomance on the day, nothing more nothing less.
ya but even still from the results I saw this new tech was still holding its own against tried and true multicard solutions and yet it still got a 2? come on...
Well, thats just it, really. It seems that it brings nothing new to the table - no improvements over existing solutions and therefore it is superfluous. I think for a solution like this to take of it doesn't just need to equal existing hardware, it needs to surpass it, in order to justify its £268 price tag. As things stand, there doesn't seem to be any reason to buy it. Get rid of the fuzion malarky, halve the price and maybe we've got a very good mobo, but atm it's just meh
It's not at all, please read the results again. :)
SINGLE CARDS are faster in many cases and the performance in normal CrossFire and SLI is most often far more consistent. There was stuttering issues and general limitations all over the place.
We don't review products on promises and it's available to buy right now, with "retail" drivers. We will come back to it in the future to check other driver releases :)
so, it's worth it to you to pay more and get significantly less performance (and sometimes unplayable) so you're not "controlled" in this scenario?
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