![]() The Lucid Hydra chip on the Crosshair IV allows the motherboard to run up to four graphic cards. We are revisiting the board and testing its SLI performance. ASUS added the Lucid Hydra 200 chip for SLI support. We previously reviewed at the ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme based on the AMD 890FX chipset with native support for CrossFire. The ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme is the only one that combines these new features and CrossFireX and SLI support via the third party chipset. There are few motherboards on the market with the 980a chipset that support the AM3 socket, and they are already becoming outdated due to the lack of SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 support. The last motherboard for AMD platforms that supports SLI is based on the Nvidia 980a chipset. So it just makes more sense for them to have Nvidia competing for their business. We are not sure whether AMD is actively preventing Nvidia from developing chipsets for their processors, but there is no doubt that AMD wants to sell their brand of graphic cards and promote CrossFire. Despite this, Intel has worked out a deal with Nvidia where latest Intel chipsets (X58, P55, and P67) all support SLI natively (in addition to their CrossFire support).ĪMD users are not as lucky, because AMD’s 2006 buyout of ATI essentially halted any further support for SLI on AMD systems. The story changed when Intel refused to grant a license allowing Nvidia to make chipsets for Intel CPUs with integrated memory controllers. When SLI was launched, only boards with Nvidia’s own nForce chipset SLI. To run SLI, not only must the cards be of the same family, the motherboard must also support the SLI technology. Nvidia’s SLI technology gives hardcore gamers the power they need by pairing up multiple graphics cards. gavbon86: Yeah, hopefully whatever he ends up doing, he's happy.We tested the SLI performance of the ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme board’s Lucid Hydra chip.gavbon86: RT Offering boost speeds of up to 5.5 GHz, Intel touts its special edition Core i9-12900KS as being the fastest CPU on the mark….gavbon86: Any chance you could say happy 9th birthday to your biggest fan, Oscar? □ Would make his day!.gavbon86: Don't think I've ever seen him smile and scream as hard! Thank YOU Dan ❤️.Nothing major, but if you see anything break on AnandTech or if… ![]() RyanSmithAT: We're rolling out some site backend changes today.RyanSmithAT: TrendForce's Intel Meteor Lake report seems to have caught the company's attention.RyanSmithAT: I believe it's the implication that Intel is having additional manufacturing issues that really rat….They have been shipping 128/136L 6th Gen V NAND fo… ganeshts: The NAND part of the quoted tweet is factually wrong.I was simply answering the faux complaint about, "OMG IT STRETCHES TEH GAMES IN NONNATIVE RES" because it certainly doesn't on mine nor on most modern LCDs that have more than simply "stretch image" as a way to display lower resolutions! *gasp* Imagine that! Technology changes and improves! Ignorance must be bliss though. I don't anymore since some games are too much for my system. Most gamers have machines that can run the native res of 17" or 19" LCDs. =LCDs can't period and that's a big deal for 99% of gamers.= Since I'm GOING TO BE PLAYING IN 1024x NO MATTER WHAT, why not do it in the most efficient manner where I can also keep an eye on other tasks? And so that's what I do. Y system's not spec'd enough to run 1280x1024 in the latest games. =I'm sorry but my 21" crt can do any resolution and still use all of the screen space and not interpolate.=Īnd mine can do any resolution up to its maximum just fine as well and in a manner I am happy with that does not "interpolate" or distort. =Why turn a 19" display into a 14" display?=Įxcept I'm not? I have a 17" display and I'm using it all, I just put some games in a window on the desktop - you know, like you do with many other pieces of software that you don't want to take up your entire view, or in the case of some games that run better at a lower res on my system. I also like to be able to Alt-Tab without all the drama (time wasted) reloading of the screen that happens when you run a game in full-screen mode anyway. I see no drawback to running a 1024x768 window'd game on my desktop for games like UT2k4. And again, I only do it to run certain games smoothly on my aging system. I'm not shrinking anything, I'm putting it at its natural size. =and how can you not see the drawback of shrinking the screen size to get a lower resolution?= =#23 no serious gamer would play in a window,= yacoub - Friday, Jlink Wow, where to begin with this one.
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