The Lucid Hydra chip is an independent solution to allow multiple GPUs to render scenes in games. This means that you are no longer dependent on SLI from NVidia or Crossfire from ATI. In the past, there have been several problems with the Hydra chip, which appear to have been on the software side of things. We have talked about the Lucid Hydra chip several times in the past.

Guru3d is reporting on a new motherboard from Asus that uses Lucid’s Hydra chip.

On Crosshair IV Extreme, a unique layout design features a total of five PCI Express expansion slots. Two provide dedicated native graphics card support for either a single GPU or two in CrossFire configuration. The additional three feature Lucid HYDRALOGIX and CrossLinx 3 technologies, which enable a mixture of graphics cards from different vendors and generations, with a total of four detectable and working at once. Users keen on tuning their system gain greater freedom to do so with the unprecedented five PCI Express slots, and the technology maintains optimized performance whether in single or multiple-GPU arrangements.

via : ASUS launches Lucid Hydra based Crosshair IV Extreme @ Guru3D

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