Now I'm confused!?

[KING_OF_SAND]

So I called ASUS support on the Crosshair Formula IV extreme mobo, the latest ASUS AMD mobo with Lucid Hydra. So I asked the question "Can I run SLi on this motherboard since it has the Lucid Hydra chip?" I got a clear "NO, only crossfire with different generation ATi and AMD cards."

Am I missing something? Support clearly understood I was referring to the Lucid chip by the answer they gave me so their was not miss communication. I was under the impression that you can mix Nvidia with AMD brands or run SLi on the board so long it had the Lucid Hydra chip. Is their an exception with this ASUS board? I am confident that the support was wrong but I want to know before I drop $299 on a MOBO for AMD, and feel like SLi(ing) dual 570s.

 

[alienware]

Lucid doesn't allow for bonafide SLI dude no. They haven't paid Nvidia for it. It does allow a sort of SLI using the means it does to link the two odd cards but it's not genuine SLI.

If you want both, as in the correct genuine means you are going to have to get either a 55 or 58 setted board.

Or, run the hack

This was part of what pushed me to the I7 tbh. I mean, not that I'm ever going to link two cards again (pinky swear) but if I get bored and fancy doing one of my crazy experiments at least the door is open

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Lucid doesn't allow for bonafide SLI dude no. They haven't paid Nvidia for it. It does allow a sort of SLI using the means it does to link the two odd cards but it's not genuine SLI.

If you want both, as in the correct genuine means you are going to have to get either a 55 or 58 setted board.

Or, run the hack

This was part of what pushed me to the I7 tbh. I mean, not that I'm ever going to link two cards again (pinky swear) but if I get bored and fancy doing one of my crazy experiments at least the door is open

AH, yea i completely forgot about how Lucid works lol.

But is how Lucid works almost as fast as true SLi? i know that its not AS fast but it's close I am assuming?

 

[alienware]

No it's driver based so a bit of a PITA at the best of times.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

No it's driver based so a bit of a PITA at the best of times.

maybe i'll wait till they get the Lucid better optimized before getting one. in the mean time i will check up some more on that hack