Looking for Lucid hydra board

[KING_OF_SAND]

Does anyone know of a high end AMD motherboard with the lucid chip on it? primarily msi because of the color but any board will work, i am having problems finding one.

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

Think the MSI BB fusion has that http://eu.msi.com/product/mb/870A-Fuzion-Power-Edition.html#?div=Detail

You might want to read this review of Lucid Hydra first though if you haven't already: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/articles.php?articleid=147

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

that is a pretty old article when it comes to technology. I would think they would have done some drastic changes with the the Lucid chip by now?

also i am looking for something with a 890fx chipset.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

what i wanted to do was just use my 6990 and use my 9600gt i have collecting dust as a physX card but by reading that article i cant even do that. bummer. that is all i wanted to do.

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

I thought you didn't need lucid hydra for that?

I thought it was just a case of plugging them both into the board and then going to the physx controller and just setting it up as a dedicated physics card?

As you can tell I've never done it myself so not even sure if what I'm talking about is even half right but I'm sure I've read stuff about people doing that. I know DFI used to list the third x16 slot on some of there boards as a physx slot.

I'd do some googling mate and see what you come up with but I'm next to sure you can do it and you don't need lucid for that.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

I thought you didn't need lucid hydra for that?

I thought it was just a case of plugging them both into the board and then going to the physx controller and just setting it up as a dedicated physics card?

As you can tell I've never done it myself so not even sure if what I'm talking about is even half right but I'm sure I've read stuff about people doing that. I know DFI used to list the third x16 slot on some of there boards as a physx slot.

I'd do some googling mate and see what you come up with but I'm next to sure you can do it and you don't need lucid for that.

That is how it used to work. but Nvidia made the STUPID mistake of disabling that ability.

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

That is how it used to work. but Nvidia made the STUPID mistake of disabling that ability.

When?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-physx-hack-amd-radeon,2764-9.html

This articles from November 2010 and there using a 5870 and 9600 GT as one of the test setup's.

I now remember reading about when physx first started to come in that NVIDIA disabled that but I thought they'd allowed it again. Again, with the not sures

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

When?

http://www.tomshardw...eon,2764-9.html

This articles from November 2010 and there using a 5870 and 9600 GT as one of the test setup's.

I now remember reading about when physx first started to come in that NVIDIA disabled that but I thought they'd allowed it again. Again, with the not sures

http://www.ngohq.com/news/16560-patch-re-enables-physx-when-ati-card-is-present.html

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

http://www.ngohq.com...is-present.html

So my articles got a year on yours so that's a good sign

If you have a read of the conclusion page on the article I put up then it look like people have found ways of making it work but it looks like your going to have to do some digging for the answers mate

Or we can wait around for someone who knows what there talking about to show up

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

So my articles got a year on yours so that's a good sign

If you have a read of the conclusion page on the article I put up then it look like people have found ways of making it work but it looks like your going to have to do some digging for the answers mate

Or we can wait around for someone who knows what there talking about to show up

yea that article i sent you has a guy who apparently has a working work around for this. i will give it a try.

 

[dugdiamond]

Umm, my mobo is the best AMD with lucid hydra on it, AFAIK (msi 870a fuzion power edition)

wassup?

 

[marsey99]

There are plenty of hacked drivers floating about now that let you use mixed cards for rendering and physx or sli on crossfire only boards and such mate. Google is your best bet

 

[dugdiamond]

the difference between using the old way of have a nvidia gpu just for physx and using hydra is....

ALL of the nvidia gpu's power will be utilised with lucid, whereas the card would only be partially used via the old method (via physx control panel)