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No More AMD-NVIDIA Combos, LucidLogix Hydra About to Be Executed

LucidLogix' Hydra system-on-chip devices may have just made the difference clear between a revolutionary breakthrough and something that is 'just' a breakthrough. The Hydra 200 SoC, first used in the MSI Hydra 200 Big Bang Fuzion motherboard, seemed to fit the bill of a revolutionary technology perfe...

23 January 2012
10:13 GMT

Anniversary: Two of Pluto's Moons Turn 5

Exactly five years ago today, astronomers at the Boulder, Colorado-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) decided on what to call two of Pluto's moons, that were discovered barely a year before. After nearly 12 months on debates about possible names, the team decided on Hydra and Nix. Both of these diminutive...

21 June 2011
03:07 GMT

Razer Trumpets the Hydra Motion Sensing Controller For PCs

Razer is known for having invented a great many gaming peripherals and it appears that its latest invention doesn't exactly qualify as a keyboard, mouse, steering wheel or anything of the sort.Users with basic knowledge of the gaming and PC industry will know of those things called motion controllers.Nintendo&#...

22 April 2011
06:14 GMT

No Move Support in Portal 2, Hydra Is Special

Valve has confirmed that Portal 2 will not be getting any control scheme that will allow the game to accept inputs from the PlayStation Move motion tracking controller because the company put a lot of time in making sure that the game can easily be controlled using the console gamepads.This came as a surprise because...

28 February 2011
13:41 GMT

Portal 2 Gets Exclusive Content for Razer Hydra Controllers

Razer, the maker of gaming-oriented peripherals for the PC, and Valve, the developers of well-known PC games like Portal and Half Life, have announced that they are collaborating to deliver specially created Portal 2 levels that will be used to showcase the possibilities included in the Hydra controllers. The Hydr...

11 January 2011
09:29 GMT

New Hydra Wireless Headset Sends Sound Through the Back of One's Ears

While audio solutions come in various forms, few can boast of being capable of doing their job without sending the sound directly into one's ear, and Hydra Advance Technology claims to have done just that.Normally, one might be able to distinguish between in-ear earphones and over-ear headsets, according to the...

22 December 2010
04:55 GMT

ECS Motherboard Combines NVIDIA and AMD Video Cards

With the impending arrival of Sandy Bridge CPUs, it makes sense that motherboard makers would announce platforms capable of supporting them, and ECS went a little farther and even added support for NVIDIA-AMD mixed graphics.Making a motherboard capable of mixing AMD and NVIDIA video cards was not possible until the ...

27 September 2010
08:18 GMT

MSI Makes Combining AMD and NVIDIA Graphics Affordable

It appears that June is not doomed to go down in history as a period during which almost no motherboards were released now that Micro-Star International has made its move. The Taiwanese hardware supplier even went as far as making its two newest platforms more unique than most, if not all, other offering swarmin...

30 June 2010
06:01 GMT

PowerColor Preps NVIDIA-Compatible ATI Radeon HD 5770

It can hardly be said that the past months have suffered from a shortage of unusual inventions, especially with mention of cement flash drives and superdisks 1,000 times more capacious than Blu-ray. Even the Hydra 200 SoC, which lets AMD and NVIDIA cards work together, became popular enough to warrant a trip to the m...

27 May 2010
08:26 GMT

New Horizons Schedule Already Partially Set

The most well-studied object in the Kuiper Belt is undoubtedly Pluto, a body that was a couple of years ago demoted from the rank of full-fledged planet to that of dwarf planet. The object features a large Moon called Charon, as well as two smaller satellites, dubbed Nix and Hydra. The latter two were only discovered...

20 May 2010
08:46 GMT

MSI Plans Affordable Hydra-Powered Motherboard

The consumer dream for unrestricted GPU combinations was made possible by LicidLogix' Hydra SoC and was later fulfilled by MSI, but it remains obvious that, for the largest part of the market, the dream is still out of reach. This is because the MSI Big Bang Fuzion, currently the only existing motherboard to in...

15 April 2010
06:33 GMT

Human Vision Goes Back 600 Million Years

A group of American researchers from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has recently made huge progress in understanding how vision in higher animals, including humans, developed. The experts looked at a member of an ancient group of sea creatures, called the hydra, in order to gain some more insigh...

13 March 2010
05:33 GMT

MSI's Hydra 200-Enabled Big Bang Fuzion Finally Launches

MSI has delayed the release of its Big Bang Fuzion motherboard for several months, but it seems that the product is finally going to go out into the world. The motherboard will be the first consumer-oriented mainboard built with the LucidLogix Hydra 200 chip, which enables multi-GPU configurations with graphics cards...

9 January 2010
06:45 GMT

NVIDIA Is Just Fine with Lucid's Hydra Technology

Yesterday, we reported on the news about the early previews of what Lucid's Hydra 200 chip was capable of, at that development stage. While the product is still some time away from becoming available to consumers, there are reports claiming that the technology has been delayed from market availability due to int...

13 November 2009
05:55 GMT

Lucid's Hydra 200 Chip Previewed, Appreciated

One of the most interesting technologies that have recently been making the headlines is the Hydra 200 Multi-GPU solution, a chip designed by Lucid that will enable desktop PC enthusiasts to boost their system's graphics performance by mixing two different GPUs, either from the same vendor or from different vend...

12 November 2009
04:53 GMT

LucidLogix HYDRA 200 Enables Flexibility for Multi-GPU Configurations

We've been talking about LucidLogix's HYDRA chip for some time, but it looks like the company has finally decided to up the ante and officially introduce its new HYDRA 200. The new solution has been specifically designed to bring multi-GPU computing to the masses, according to the company, as it allows moth...

23 September 2009
03:30 GMT

LucidLogix HYDRA Chip Ends Up on New ELSA Product

ELSA Japan, a leading manufacturer of computer graphics solutions, has announced that it developed the first product that will be designed to integrate Lucid's HYDRA chip. The chip developed by Lucid has enabled ELSA to provide a cost effective solution for multi-GPU configurations, with support for GPUs from an...

11 February 2009
08:34 GMT

Intel to Put Lucid Hydra on Upcoming Smackover II Mobo

When Intel first released its new X58 consumer desktop platform, it didn't only provide support for its next-generation Core i7 processors, but also unveiled a new significant feature. The Nehalem-supporting X58 “Smackover” board has been designed to allow system builders and computer enthusiasts to ...

23 December 2008
11:02 GMT

Zepto Hydra Brings the Power of Gaming

It’s been quite a while that Intel's Centrino 2 technology was unleashed, and we have already seen a number of new notebooks being released by major manufacturers, all based on the aforementioned mobile technology. However, in the world of portable gaming systems, there's always room for improvement, ...

8 September 2008
03:12 GMT

ECS Launches GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Pack

Elitegroup Computer Systems, or ECS for short, has probably come out with the best graphics offer for all performance-hungry gamers. It is called GeForce 9800GTX+ Hydra Pack and it has just been announced today by the company.ECS' offer includes not one, but two GeForce 9800GTX+ graphics cards, cooled down by th...

25 July 2008
07:00 GMT

AMD Unleashes Hydra: 8-Core Competition for the Nehalems

Despite the fact that AMD is half dead because of its tiny CPU market share, the company is currently making the preparations for a worth-mentioning Nehalem competitor. The chip manufacturer's upcoming 45-nanometer chips in the Deneb and Propus families will undergo a significant micro-architecture redesign, als...

7 May 2008
08:46 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Hands On With Razer's New Salmosa Mouse

As you've already been able to read on Softpedia, Razer has come up with yet another offering designed "by gamers, for gamers". This time around, we're talking about the Razer Salmosa, a peripheral designed especially for those users who want to benefit from the company' expertise in the area of gaming...

6 March 2008
11:31 GMT


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