[TPU-SA] NVIDIA Shuns Lucid Hydra - Page 5 - Overclock.net

Hueristic · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by sLowEnd

This is AMD's stance on the Hydra

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1093/5/

It appears to me that they're not exactly leaning towards it, due to skepticism.

Good link.

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If Lucid can deliver on their promised performance, we will embrace their technology.

EDIT: Here is Lucids Q&A. Good read.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1093/4/

BizzareRide · 2 Weeks Ago

How can nVidia stop this from releasing? They don't own Lucid technology?... All they can do is block it at the driver level and someone will just hack them.

Martkilu · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by saulin

As for SLI-ing on any card I think it's cool. I think Nvidia should work on that. I would not mind using my 8800 GTX with my GTX 285, then again one is DX9 and the other DX10 so I don't know if it can work that way. Not on DX10 mode for sure.

Both are DX10.

blooder11181 · 2 Weeks Ago

can this be cheap for entry/med level mobo to have sli/crossfire

Perry · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Shadow_UGZ

Why do you think so? They keep pulling of crap like this and stopping the industry to advance. They brought a lot of new improvements but by not licensing it to anyone they are just hurting themselves as the technologies they create will never be used as a standard. The competing companies will find an alternate and make it mainstream, where anyone can have access to. /rant

Why shouldn't they be allowed to protect what they manufacture as well as a technology they helped "perfect"?

Z Overlord · 2 Weeks Ago

I don't see the problem in the OP...

saulin · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Martkilu

Both are DX10.

Sweet. I never played a DX 10 game with it and I think it came out before Vista so I thought it wasn't.

However I think Nvidia has not allowed SLI of mixed GPUs to keep bugs and other issues to minimum. Like I said if you look at the release notes for their drivers you will see issues that could be present in Windows Vista but not XP or vice versa. Or issues that could be present with a card but not with another.

So I wonder if this new technology goes through how is it supposed to handle this issues without direct support from Nvidia or ATI?

Plus wasn't SLI and CF pretty buggy in their early days too? How many people will actually just trust something so new and immature? I think the idea is great if it actually worked like they put it.

It would be sweet to use my 8800 GTX together with my GTX 285

vdek · 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by liability

happens everyday. We'd probably all be driving hovercrafts to work if not for corporate greed stifling progression.

lol.

Kryten · 2 Weeks Ago

I fail to see how Nvidia is being greedy. What a set of shortsighted comments.

Intel is holding all the cards and refusing to allow Nvidia access to the new i5 and i7 chipsets. Intels only money in the chipset business comes from SLI chips. Why would they willingly let that revenue slip through their fingers?

Really, you can blame Intel for being greedy. If Nvidia were allowed to make i5 and i7 chipsets, they wouldn't need to cling to the nforce 200 chip.

Really, does anyone here actually think about things or are we on autopilot whinge mode?