LGA1156 soon to be best dual GPU mobo.

Well yeah, many of you already know but if you ever consider Dual GPU solution and you only game, your far better with a 955BE build.

Now, things might change very soon. And in some drastic way.

Lucid Hydra 200. The chip that promised near 100% GPU Scaling.
Sounds good right? thats already plain awesome.
Now the good thing is, it promised this scaling... WITH ANY GPU COMBO.
Nvidia+ATI. Dual ATI, Dual Nvidia.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1093/1/

Well the real pure tests are coming soon:

http://event.msi.com/mb/bigbang/

If this Lucid Hydra 200 is really up to it's name, then i5 WILL be the best build for both gamers and video encoders/zip

Tough, I am being sceptic on the platform they chose...why LGA 1156?? it only supports dual x8 ANYWAY..why not try it on a better scaling platform like the Asus CrossHair III formula AM3??

Well if this is really near the 100% Gpu scaling, and works flawelessly with nvidia/ati combo, then Nvidia will have to rethink the Physx blocus. Anyway, someone already released a patch somewhere on the net, I forgot where.

What do you people think of this mobo? this really might be a AMD killer.

Yeah seriously, neglecting AMD when it currently has the second top crown after i7-920 in gaming would be extremly stupid.
+ it supports dual x16, wich will make better scaling in general.
But this special mobo right here is to be released for the holidays sales with a good price. So AMD support will have to wait, and with less pleasant prices I guess..
It will skyrocket the i5 sales. If the scaling is what they say it is,Even I, who was a 100% fervent 955 fan for it has proven to rivalize the i7-975 extreme in farcry 2, will definitly go i5.

I started a thread on this a few days ago but it got little response.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum2.php?config=tomshardwareus.inc&cat=33&post=271299&page=1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=1&trash=&trash_post=&print=0&numreponse=0&quote_only=0&new=0&nojs=0

Well it has been known about for some time now, I first read about it a couple of years ago but it has taken some time to go from a few articles to an actual chip on a board but until some site run benchies any numbers given are just the chip makers PR IMHO.

True that. But to get the most out of a 955 build, you need to get at least a 200$ mobo.
And the current LGA1156 mobo goes from 110 to 150$. I think the mobo will be around 200, + it will be released on holidays so the price will be interesting IMO....
but your right, we have to wait for the actual benchies.. XD