The end of crossfire and SLI?

[D-Dan]

This is interesting: http://www.lucidlogix.com/videos.html

Steve

[zappaDPJ]

It looks like a major step forward and certainly offers a lot more flexibility. My only concern would be it implies there are limitations in the number of supported applications. I would have preferred it to be entirely hardware driven and not app specific.

[Niall]

There are motherboards that allow either brand on one motherboard, although I don't think you can pair two different types of card. Asrock do them.

This is definitely the way forward for cards though. The price would no doubt increase though, so I hope it's not so much to actually make a good idea unaffordable. I'm planning on upgrading over the next few months, and I want a 30" monitor, which would mean I'd need a better card as the FPS will drop a lot otherwise, especially with the newer games coming out. If you could have cards that support the feature rather than the motherboard it would be a massive help.

I'd like a near top end card, with a smaller one to take off some of the load, and have them support DX11 as I've not had the luxury of trying out DX11 yet as my current card, the X260 is DX10.

I was only looking last night for SLI/Crossfire motherboards for my upgrade. I think I'll still be getting the monitor first though, as my eyesight is terrible at the moment, and I could really do with a larger monitor.

[.Griff.]

MSI have had boards with LUCID Hydra chips onboard for over 15 months now.

There's certain limitations, no dual-GPU cards are supported, drivers restrictions and so on but it's a clever piece of kit.