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Originally Posted by Neuromancer

No clue how they will work this at the bot. Can you compare a hydra chip to a crossfire SLI setup? Maybe gloabally, but not HW boint wise I would think...(not talking about mixed cards, just pairs/tris/quads)

Well they went with the first chip on P55. Which works well will add between 36 and 74 dollars depending on the number of "lanes" it adds, which is ridiculous since it is running on a single 16x link LOL

But its a good move, despite being geared a "budget" setup intel users are used to dropping 400 or more on a CPU/Mobo combo, so the extra money for hydra will be nothing new to historical Intel shoppers. Where it gets these "extra lanes" from is interesting, they said the hydra chip had improved performance, near 100% scalability before. Obviously, this is due to reduced overhead. If so then why "create" hypertransport lanes out of nothing. Only reason to have more t ha nthe CPU is providing is for intercommunication, which means overhead. And for that matter how could they have less overhead with asynchronous setups?

Boggles the mind, cant wait to see it in action and see some whitepapers on the layout.

My mind is boggled as well my friend. I want to see this thing in action already as well!