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liquidsnake718   10-09-2009 at 04:20:35 PM

Will GPU Memory have to be identical and what about the clocks? The shaders are also different and how would this work when stream processors will be totslly lopsided. I suppose this will work in DX11? So how would a GTX285 which isnt created for DX11 work with a 5870 or 5850 which was made with DX11 in mind?? So many more questions than answers.... would you buy this if it were 400-500 dollars??

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jamesgoddard   10-09-2009 at 04:52:32 PM
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No I would not buy it

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chef7734   10-09-2009 at 04:55:25 PM
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Why would you want to do it. There would really be no reason as you can not get them to run together ie crossfire or sli. Only reason to do this before was physx anda gtx 285 is overkill for that.

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liquidsnake718   10-09-2009 at 06:19:54 PM
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WHats the retail price for this? I guess it would only be worth it with a usb 3.0 port or two. They should wait till next year to release this.

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liquidsnake718   10-09-2009 at 06:16:24 PM
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Will GPU Memory have to be identical and what about the clocks? The shaders are also different and how would this work when stream processors will be totslly lopsided. I suppose this will work in DX11? So how would a GTX285 which isnt created for DX11 work with a 5870 or 5850 which was made with DX11 in mind?? So many more questions than answers.... would you buy this if it were 400-500 dollars??

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Silver Graphics badge TheGreatGrapeApe   10-09-2009 at 06:20:51 PM
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Nobody knows until they actually ship them (Late Oct is current deadline).

Hydra is interesting, but until it's fully tested top-to-bottom it's still a relative unknown.

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Silver Graphics badge TheGreatGrapeApe   10-09-2009 at 06:40:30 PM
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Silver Graphics badge TheGreatGrapeApe   10-09-2009 at 06:42:41 PM
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chef7734 wrote :

Why would you want to do it. There would really be no reason as you can not get them to run together ie crossfire or sli. Only reason to do this before was physx anda gtx 285 is overkill for that.



You don't understand what he's asking, he's talking about Lucid's Hydra chip that is included on this MSI board, it's supposed to allow you to mix vendors and cards, and it intercepts the driver & API calls and renders from both GPUs.

Google 'Hydra 200' .

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liquidsnake718   10-09-2009 at 09:05:00 PM
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Yeah you'd think the few that buy this would see it as a collectors item as I bet it would be scrapped Immediately! Somehow I doubt as early as this October, that pic looked like it was just a prototype or even being tested. It could even be a hoax or whatnot as we havent 'officially' heard from MSi, Nvidia, or even Ati.....

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strangestranger   10-09-2009 at 11:13:08 PM
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This interesting, the mixing of gpu's I just don't see happening but the general benefits it supposedly brings to multi gpu setups sounds too good to be true.

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