A few days ago we saw the launch of several articles on the Hydra 200 chip. These all came from very respected sources in the tech press. Yet all three were talking about the exact same box. The point behind the exercise was to show that Lucid is working and that there are no problems with their drivers [Unlike MSI’s claim].

Lucid staged this little show after the MSI Big Bang Fuzion motherboard with Hydra 200 chip was indefinitely delayed. Many in the press saw this as a sign that nVidia had put pressure on MSI to prevent the launch of any hardware that would allow for the running of an nVidia GPU alongside an AMD GPU. After all they blocked the ability to use an nVidia GPU as a PPU with an AMD GPU as master on Windows 7 so this seemed a likely case.

That was until MSI came out and claimed that they had delayed due to driver issues with the Lucid Hydra 200 chip. They were not specific about them though, just that there were some issues. Even nVidia made statements pointing to this in an e-mail to BSN* they said; "If you look at what MSI has said, they clearly say they delayed the product because Lucid’s drivers aren’t baked."

Read the entire article in BSN.