Report: NVIDIA Plans to Block Lucid’s Hydra Chip
If you’re wondering why the highly-anticipated MSI Big Bang Trinergy motherboard turned out to be using NVIDIA’s nForce 200 SLI chip, with no sign of the Lucid Hydra 200 chip as it promised, the answer is simple – NVIDIA does not like it.
Considering the product would impact NVIDIA’s profit coming from SLI fee, the green giant decides that it’s time to do something. Firstly, they will break support for Lucid’s chip at the driver part, and by unknown means force MSI to postpone their “Big Bang” motherboard. Though MSI claims the Big Bang Fusion powered by Hydra engine will be released by the end of 2009, we don’t think so, exactly. The site Overclock3D believes the board will be delayed to early next year, or even be killed finally.
The multi-GPU solution has opened up a totally different battlefield, but NVIDIA is apparently unprepared yet or unwilling to fight.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Ooh geez, why Nvidia? I will say that NVIDIA IS NOW FAIL. NVIDIFAIL.
They don’t push DX10.1 and DX11, they block antialiasing for the Batman game for ATI users, they block Physx for ATI users, even for Ageia card users (the origin of Physx), bad performing Physx!!!, they re-use chips from 8000 series all the way to 200 series (several generations!), they STILL USE GDDR3, oversized heatmaking chips, failing chips for notebooks from Dell, Apple, Sony, HP, etc., etc etc, and now this, blocking Hydra, something I was looking forward to since it’s introduction.
NVIDIFAIL
November 6th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Oh well, the pc enthusiasts and gamers are the ones who lose out in the end…
November 6th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Agree.
November 6th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Illegal.Monopoly.
November 7th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I thought there were two boards, one with the Hydra chip, one without.
November 7th, 2009 at 5:48 am
it’s simple, just don’t go Nvidia, atleast ATI are being open minded about the Hydra chip providing it does what it claims
November 7th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
http://www.overclock3d.net/news.php?/cpu_mainboard/nvidia_quash_msi_s_lucid_powered_big_bang_board/1
So once AGAIN, Charlie was spouting nothing but FUD FUD FUD.
November 8th, 2009 at 4:25 am
this calls for an nvidia boycott?
November 10th, 2009 at 3:51 am
boycott? I boycotted Nvidia years ago. I don’t like companies that are owned by Chinese people. They’re too cheap and selfish and all they care is about market value without respecting their customers. I’m not being racist or anything, since I’m Chinese too. AMD/ATI are more honest and have reasonable pricing for their products. Nvidia is overpriced and behind in new technologies.