I have always avoided MSI motherboards like the plague but this looks very interesting. The Lucid HYDRA engine promises true scalability with multi GPU setups. I am wondering if this would give better results than a typical SLI setup. Anyone have any thoughts?

http://www.guru3d.com/news/msi-announce ... ainboards/

not that I have or had anything against MSI - Some of them do have features that would make a fan of another brand take a second glance.

I been stuck on ASUS because I was always able to find a really well priced high quality board and also rock solid stability and overclockability.

With that said after doing a little light reading - I am liking that board. I would like to read the results of that MSI board utilizing multi-GPU's to see how it behaves. If the news is fantastic, I may lean in that direction with the next upgrade.

I am wondering of team Ruby or Team Green will release a new driver that will interfere with performance or compatability when running along side one another. You know - high school way of thinking.

Wait and see what websites can get out of it. I've seen some prelim stats and whatnot but that was just a bunch of benchmarkteering. This could get uglier than 3dmark fudges!

i have owned a total of 2 msi boards. one was a lower end p4 craped out in 6 months and the second one was a s775 cant remember the exact models of both. the 775 board lasted about 10 months then the sata stoped working on it. then the onboard sound stoped a few weeks later lol

msi fails here

I've had two MSI boards in the past and although none died within a year both did go around the 3-5 year point. On top of that I found them fairly finicky boards with lots of weird quirks to them. On the other hand they were cheap and usually the first to the market with the chipsets I was waiting for.

One was a Socket A Via chipset with the 266MHz FSB and the other was a Socket 754 with the nForce3-250GB chipset.

The last two systems I've built have had Gigabyte boards and I seem to like them more. Not as flashy, not quite as many features (usually ones I don't care about anyways like being able to OC in the OS) but cheap and stable.

As for the Lucid HYDRA talk we've had a thread here about it and it already looks like nVidia is pulling the high school stuff out.