MSI's Big Bang Mobo Offers THX Yummyness

For those of you who aren't familiar with Lucid 200, It will allow multi-gpu without any driver mess and much better scalability than your crossfire and sli.... If it works. If it works, it will very literally revolutionize the concept of multi-GPU.

MSI is making a big move, and all I can say it... ABOUT TIME.

It would be pretty awesome if consumers aren't limited to just one type of gpu scaling (crossfire/sli.) My question is why isn't Lucid working with AMD? It's awesome that they're working with Intel, but if AMD procs would be included in this, that would mean total freedom as to what CPU-GPU combo you want, right?

I sure as hell will never be buying an MSI product again

sweet, just in time for ubuntu 9.10!

What is the problem with MSI? Are they unreliable? I've had good and bad motherboard models from almost any manufacturer. I don't reject any for life (although Soyo has come close).

Any AMD motherboards coming? I would hate to have to upgrade everything in my system at once.

Absolutely nothing. People just get very biased about things that they've had trouble with. I too have had problems with all manufatures of tech, it's just enevidible, but I won't put down a genuinely great piece of technogly because of some self-richeous, biased opinion. They'll keep complaining, while we get our performance. That's just my opinion.

On topic, the THX audio SELLS me this board. Easy, motherboard performance is such a trivial thing anyways.

Is that a 4890 and a 275 side by side? What's up with that?

I wouldn't write MSI off. I've never had a bad board from MSI where as I've had multiple bad boards with ASUS. Just bad luck, doesn't mean I'll never buy ASUS again.

having a bad motherboard is like the opposite of winning the lottery or drawing a name out of a hat can happen to any manufacture.

also you can't judge its performance on a bad motherboard and say its bad

Does this mean AMD users are sol? I'm not sure the article or any of the responses clarify this.

Yah about 5 years ago... The days since the launch of the audigy 2 series have gone to hell and now they make barely mediocre cards.

Still the audio has to be better then most on board "HD" audio. Don't care for MSI mobo's though they tend to be designed poorly thermally tend to get hot in side a case.

Man, ya know... it really isn't THAT big of a deal. I have listened to many different sound cards and products and to actually hear a difference? Give me a break. You need clean sound reproduction and a receiver that can adjust it's EQ according to the room. Pioneer and Yamaha have this built in, I am sure others do as well. As far as THX surround and decoding for other types? Well, that is probably where this would be nice.

no offense kev, but the real highlight of this article is the lucid hydra 200, unless there was an older article with this announcement already

people have been waiting for this to become a reality for a few years now, me being one of them.

Why Creative doesn't release Creative X-Fi 3? It has been a long timeeee. May be 32 or 64 bit sound floating point, EAX 6.0, DirectX 11 Direct Sound?

Please read the article before looking like an idiot.

Speaking from first hand experience, I went from an MSI Platinum model mobo with Creative Sound Blaster onboard sound to a Gigabyte board with Realtek onboard audio and I noticed the difference instantly. Realtek could not compare. Granted, anyone can get used to average onboard audio, but there is a noticeable difference. Especially when you have quality cans like Sennheisers or some decent speakers.

Lucid Hydra.
EAX 5.0... If I can afford it when it comes out, I'll definitely get this mobo (this means I don't need a discrete sound card)

Just because the first board is an MSI for Intel's processors doesn't mean that it's not going to be brought to the AMD platform as well.

And on the side: A possible explanation for the Nvidia card next to an AMD card in the pic is that the new system will allow for multi GPU systems to truly get all they can out of the GPUs in terms of performance, rather than being limited to one brand or identical cards, and so on.

This technology may very well mean that multi GPU systems will be running their GPUs at the top of their capacity.

Kind regards,

Mike

Oh I love it when news are so damn badly written that I have to do my own separate research to find out for platform is this board specifically aimed at.
Here are some photos and info for the P55 board from msi.


PS: Thx Tom's for wasting my damn time..

No edit button and the link isn't displayed oh yeah!

Is EAX5 supported in hardware mode as more expensive SB X-Fi sound cards? Does it have 64MB memory? Or is it just a software solution? What about the DAC and opamp? Would MSI let you change those? That would be the ultimate solution :-)

Reading the article sparked your interest in the topic and made you look for more information, did it not?

I suppose that therefore it did fulfill it's goal.

Appropriate name. I wonder when this will come out here in Asia. Dual GPU's. Wow I wonder if scaling will even work from a 5850 and a GTX285, then Ill really consider getting a 5850. I've never had an Ati card besides the mobility Radeon.

HAHAHAHA Now thats funny shit right there.

Yeah I'm not at all happy about it just being for the P55 platform. The x58 will host the next chip from intel so wtf is up with that?

Anyone wanna buy a 600USD worth of i7 and x58 junk combo then?

I am surprised that this P55 board supports by THX Audio. That's damn premium audio stuffs. Check it out.

For the audiophiles out there is this THX TruStudio PC along with Creative's EAX Advanced HD 5.0 better than what the Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS has to offer?

Audigy does not support EAX Advance HD 5.0. Perhaps EAX3.0 or EAX4.0. My Sound Blaster Titanium card supports EAX 5.0 but cost me US$149. My understanding, THX is an premium audio solution plus EAX advance HD5.0, it's a prefect match.