I am not planning on buying a new motherboard anytime soon. Though, I really like the idea and may consider buying one when building a future rig if all turns out well.
I certainly won't be buying another motherboard for at least another two years. But when I do, I'll look into this, especially if it delivers on the hype.
Yeah, I've been waiting for this to upgrade. I can't wait till p55 comes out, but I hope it isn't too much above $300, otherwise I might just get an i5 motherboard. It's nice that it's coming out before Windows 7, which I got for $30 thanks to college =). Perfect timing for an upgrade.
so youre telling me i can CF my HD4830 and HD4890 and actually see a sizable increase and not have it equal 2x HD4830s?
HELL to the YES!!!
washd123
Exactly, IF this turns out to be as good as it sounds you could buy 3 5870's and have literally a 3x increase in performance....this could usher in a whole new age of video games!
so youre telling me i can CF my HD4830 and HD4890 and actually see a sizable increase and not have it equal 2x HD4830s?
HELL to the YES!!!
Daytona_178
Exactly, IF this turns out to be as good as it sounds you could buy 3 5870's and have literally a 3x increase in performance....this could usher in a whole new age of video games!
well hell yeah im more interested in the ability to CF or SLI different generations of cards verses only the same core. like i already have a hd4830 i was going to sell it. but this may be a cheaper way to get more
once DX 11 cards come out ill just get this and 4 Cheap mid end DX11 cards and i should get better performance than 1 5870 for half the price HECK YEAHHHH
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This could also be benifical to say the GPU version of Folding at home and it could also be benifical to people who do lots of 3D renders on there PC. recently there has been good development of rendering on the GPU instead of the CPU. so this could be what solved the problems of render farms. 1 GTX 285 is comparible to atleast 6 Intel Core i7's
so youre telling me i can CF my HD4830 and HD4890 and actually see a sizable increase and not have it equal 2x HD4830s?
HELL to the YES!!!
Daytona_178
Exactly, IF this turns out to be as good as it sounds you could buy 3 5870's and have literally a 3x increase in performance....this could usher in a whole new age of video games! You can even have 2 5870's and get a GT300 when that comes out. If it works, it will be freaking amazing and well worth an extra $50-100 on a motherboard.
You could use an ATI GPU and an Nvidia GPU in tandem. So you will be able to like run a game that runs great on an Nvidia GPU on ATI and get great performance and vice versa in the same machine.
You could use an ATI GPU and an Nvidia GPU in tandem. So you will be able to like run a game that runs great on an Nvidia GPU on ATI and get great performance and vice versa in the same machine.
You could switch over your CPU and RAM and if you don't have one that's compatible, you could sell your current ones and just upgrade those too :P
YOU though have to buy new CPU, RAM and MoBo... Your on LGA 775 still.
If someone doesn't have a i5 or i7 LGA 1156 they HAVE to but a new CPU, Mobo and RAM. If they are on LGA 1366, they may have to wait a while to get a Hydra board for them and or go to LGA 1156, having to buy a new CPU and MoBo.
You could switch over your CPU and RAM and if you don't have one that's compatible, you could sell your current ones and just upgrade those too :P
YOU though have to buy new CPU, RAM and MoBo... Your on LGA 775 still.
If someone doesn't have a i5 or i7 LGA 1156 they HAVE to but a new CPU, Mobo and RAM. If they are on LGA 1366, they may have to wait a while to get a Hydra board for them and or go to LGA 1156, having to buy a new CPU and MoBo.
Hence why I'm not upgrading until I see a new platform that really justifies the added expense. If you ask me, if you have to replace your mobo, CPU, and RAM all in one upgrade, just get an entirely new PC, because that's practically what you're doing anyway.
I got no hopes for it. If ATI and Nvidia really want, they can just prevent them from doing this. Not buying into something that can be easily snuffed out in the blink of an eye.
I read about this 1 yr ago me thinks. What it does is blance the load among the multiple GPUs, and not just devide the screen into two or alternate frames like SLI or Crossfire. It takes a frame and devides geometry, shaders etc among the GPUs in a sigle frame, eliminating microtearing and efficiency loss. If it works I might get it.
how does a dx11 card with a dx9 card? Am I missing something? Or is it dx10+
washd123
You have one primary card which i think DX will work from and ALL the other cards are just for giving raw power.
the only thing is i doubt you can use DX9 and DX10/11 cards due to the significant change in architecture i cant see it working
Yea I'm pretty sure all the cards will have to be from same DX generation else you will be limited to the version of the lowest card, but I don't know for sure obviously. But that's fine anyway I can use my GTX 285, 8800 GT and 8800 GTS 640 for now then get a couple GT300's when they're released :D I'm so glad I held off from upgrading now.
I got no hopes for it. If ATI and Nvidia really want, they can just prevent them from doing this. Not buying into something that can be easily snuffed out in the blink of an eye.Human-after-all
Yes that's not out of the question, but I doubt it will happen. Why would Nvidia/AMD mind, a load of people who were never really interested in their crappy multi-gpu solutions (me included) all of a sudden want to buy loads of their graphics cards. I think they'd be glad, they'll have never sold so many cards. Also Intel was the main investor in this so if AMD/Nvidia ever did spit their dummies out then you could still use 4 Larabee's when they get released which would probably still give them a run for their money.
I surely hope it will come available with AM3 at some point. I have no intentions of downgrading and paying a price for a new CPU for some multi GPU thing when I can easily get CrossFire. If it comes available on AMD though, it might get into my case ;)
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