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Spécifications

Processor Support
Intel Core i7 and Core i5 (Lynnfeld & Clarkdale) processor LGA1156

Base Clock
133 MHz

Chipset
Intel P55 / Lucid Hydra 200 chipset

Memory Support
4 DDR3 DIMMs support DDR3 2133 *(OC)/ 2000 *(OC)/ 1800 *(OC)/1600 *(OC)/ 1333/ 1066 DRAM (16GB Max)
Supports Dual-Channel mode

LAN
Supports Dual LAN (10/100/1000) by Realtek RTL8111DL

IEEE 1394
Chip integrated by VIA VT6315N
Transfer rate up to 400Mbps

Audio
QuantumWaveTM Audio Card
Creative EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0
THX TruStudio PCTM
Creative ALchemy
7.1 Channel High Defnition Audio Codec with jack sensing
Realtek ALC889
Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
Supports1x S/PDIF out header
Supports Coaxial/Optical S/PDIF out ports on rear

IDE
1 IDE port by Jmicron JMB363
Supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode
Supports PIO, Bus Master operation mode

SATA
6 SATAII (SATA1~6) ports by Intel P55
4 SATAII (SATA7/ 8/ 9/ 10) ports by two JMicron JMB322
2 ESATA/ USB Combo port (back panel) by Jmicron JMB362
Supports storage and data transfers at up to 3 Gb/s

RAID
SATA1~6 support Intel Matrix Storage Technology (AHCI/ RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 10) by Intel P55
Hardware RAID
SATA7 & SATA8 support RAID 0/ 1 & JBOD mode by 1st Jmicron JMB322
SATA9 & SATA10 support RAID 0/ 1 & JBOD mode by 2nd Jmicron JMB322

Connectors
Back panel
- 1 PS/2 keyboard port
- 1 PS/2 mouse port
- 1 D-LED3 panel connector (optional)
- 8 USB 2.0 ports
- 1 IEEE 1394 port
- 2 ESATA/ USB Combo port
- 2 LAN ports
On-Board
- 2 USB 2.0 connectors
- 1 IEEE 1394 connector
- 1 Chassis Intrusion connector
- 1 TPM Module connector (optional)
- 1 Green Power Genie connector (optional)
- 1 Over-Voltage switch & 1 set voltage check point
- 1 Power button
- 1 Reset button
- 1 Green Power button
- 1 Clear CMOS button
- 1 OC Genie button
- 1 CPU Phase LED panel
Slots
3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots
- PCI_E2/ PCI_E4/ PCI_E5 will be x16/ x16/ x0 or x16/ x8/ x8
2 PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
- Only PCI_E1 supports installing the Realtek Audio card
2 PCI 2.2 slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface
Form Factor
ATX (30.5cm X 24.4 cm)




Hardware and Software Support

The supporting list for current HYDRA driver (version 1.3.105) are described in this section.
HYDRA driver will be updated to support more new OS, GPUs and display drivers.
Therefore, it may be changed depand on the latest version of the driver.

Supported Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows Vista (SP2) 32-bit and 64-bit
- Support dual NVIDIA graphic cards
- Support dual ATI graphic cards
Microsoft Windows 7 RTM OS 32-bit and 64-bit
- Support dual mixture of NVIDIA and ATI graphic cards
- Support dual NVIDIA graphic cards
- Support dual ATI graphic cards
Microsoft Windows Editions include:
- Windows Vista Home Basic
- Windows Vista Home Premium
- Windows Vista Business
- Windows Vista Enterprise Edition
- Windows Vista Ultimate
- Windows 7 (RTM) Home Premium
- Windows 7 (RTM) Professional
- Windows 7 (RTM) Ultimate
Supported graphic libraries
DirectX 9
DirectX 10
Supported GPUs and display drivers
NVIDIA
- GPUs G90/G200 series, Single core only, no Dual core GPU support in this version (GTX295 is not supported)
- NVIDIA display drivers: 185.85, 186.18, 190.38, 190.62, 191.07
AMD/ATI
- GPUs HD4XXX series, Single core only, no Dual core GPU support in this version (HD4870x2 is not supported)
- ATI/AMD display drivers: Catalyst 9.7 and up
Multi vendor
- Operating system: Windows 7 only (due to native limitations of other Windows versions)
- GPUs: NVIDIA G90/G200 series, AMD/ATI HD4xxx Series, Single core only, no Dual core GPU support in this version
- Display drivers: NVIDIA 185.85, 186.18, 190.38, 190.62, 191.07 / AMD/ATI Catalyst 9.7 and up

Important
The HYDRA driver only support up to 2 graphic cards in this version. The future version will support up to 3 graphic cards. Then you only need to update the driver.

Games qualifed
These games are verified with HYDRA driver 1.3.105 by Lucid. The games that are highlights (Bold) are common to all confgurations.

N-Mode (dual NVIDIA graphic cards)
007 Quantum of Solace
3DMark Vantage
3DMark06
Age of Empires III
Batman Arkham Asylum (including benchmark)
Battlefield 2
BioShock (DX10 & DX9)
Brothers in Arms Hells Highway
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box
C&C3 Kane's Wrath
C&C3 Tiberium wars
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty World At War
Call of Juarez Bound In Blood
Call of Juarez (DX10 & DX9) (including benchmark)
Civilization IV
Civilization IV Beyond the Sword
Civilization IV Colonization
Civilization IV Warlords
Code of Honor 3
Company of Heroes ( including benchmark)
Dead Space
Death to Spies
F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin
Fallout3
FIFA09
Frontlines Fuel of War
Gears of War
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfghter 2
Half Life 2
Half Life 2 episode one
Half Life 2 episode two
Jericho
King's Bounty the Legend
Kung Fu Panda
Left 4 Dead
Lego Indiana Jones
Lost Planet - Extreme Condition DX9
Lord of The Rings Midd e Earth
Madagascar 2
Mass Efect
Medieval II: TotalWar
Monsters vs Aliens
NBA 2K9
Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising
P.E.S. (Pro Evolution Succer)
Portal
Pure
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Spore
Stormrise (including benchmark)
Street fghter 4 (Including benchmark)
Supreme Commander (including benchmark)
Team Fortress 2
The Godfather II
The Witcher Enhanced Edition
Time Shift
TomClancy's: EndWar
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Transfomers2
Unreal Tournament 3
Velvet Assassin
Virtua tennis 2009
Wall-E
Wheelman
Wolfenstein
World In Confict (including Benchmark)
X-Man Origin Wolverine

A-Mode (dual ATI graphic cards)
007 Quantum of Solace
3DMark Vantage
3DMark06
Age of Empires III
Battlefeld 2
Brothers in Arms Hells Highway
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box
C&C3 Kane's Wrath
C&C3 Tiberium wars
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty World At War
Call of Juarez Bound In Blood
Call of Juarez (DX10 & DX9) (including benchmark)
Civilization IV
Civilization IV Beyond the Sword
Civilization IV Colonization
Civilization IV Warlords
Company of Heroes (including benchmark)
Dead Space
F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin
Fallout3
FIFA09
Frontlines Fuel of War
Gears of War
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfghter 2
Half Life 2
Half Life 2 episode one
Half Life 2 episode two
Jericho
King's Bounty the Legend
Kung Fu Panda
Left 4 Dead
Lego Indiana Jones
Lord of The Rings Middle Earth
Madagascar 2
Mass Efect
Monsters vs Aliens
NecroVision
Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising
P.E.S. (Pro Evolution Succer)
Portal
Pure
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky
SIMS 2 Double Deluxe
Spore
Stormrise (including benchmark)
Street fghter 4 (including benchmark)
Supreme Commander (including benchmark)
Team Fortress 2
The Godfather II
Tom Clancy's: EndWar
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Transformers2
Virtua tennis 2009
Wall-E
Wanted Weapons of Fate
Wolfenstein
World In Confict (includinq benchmark)
X-Man Origin Wolverine

X-Mode (dual mixture of NVIDIA and ATI graphic cards)
3DMark Vantage
3DMark06
Batman Arkham Asylum (including benchmark)
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty World At War
F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin
Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising


Hardware Setup
Installing the Graphic Cards
HYDRA allows you to fexibility use diferent combinations of GPUs from AMD/ATI and NVIDIA, and do not need cables to connect the graphic cards (The current version only supports windows 7). Please follow the steps below to install the graphic cards.
- Turn of your computer and disconnect the power cord.
- Open and remove the case of the computer.
- Find and locate the PCI-E x16 slots.
- Remove the bracket which may obstruct the installed PCI-E slots.
- Gently but firmly install the graphic cards to the PCI-E x16 slots and secure the card brackets with screws.
- Replace and secure the case. Reconnect the power cord to the computer.
Connecting the monitor
- After you have installed graphic cards, connect the monitor to the monitor port on the first graphic card

Important
If you use NVIDIA + ATI GPUs combination, it is recommanded installing the NVIDIA graphic card to the first PCI-E x16 slot.


source: http://www.caseandcooling.fr/carte-m...ails?showall=1

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[psolord]

Ok, not bad, but where's my Crysis dudes?

[Fatfool]

Originally Posted by psolord

Ok, not bad, but where's my Crysis dudes?

Whoops. Maybe they missed like the most anticipated game of 2007?

btw, socket 1156?!?!?!?


not 1336?! isn't this supposed to be like an extremely high end solution?

[Magnuz]

Originally Posted by Fatfool

Whoops. Maybe they missed like the most anticipated game of 2007?

btw, socket 1156?!?!?!?


not 1336?! isn't this supposed to be like an extremely high end solution?

Ditto. Exactly what I have been asking around on the forum!
Why is it not used on the high end socket 1366?
I just might buy one if its on 1366 platform.

No way am I touching the 1156 platform.
The dual channel bandwidth is just not worth it.
And I am going straight to triple channel when I do.

[psolord]

Originally Posted by Magnuz

Ditto. Exactly what I have been asking around on the forum!
Why is it not used on the high end socket 1366?
I just might buy one if its on 1366 platform.

No way am I touching the 1156 platform.
The dual channel bandwidth is just not worth it.
And I am going straight to triple channel when I do.

I think you may want to reconsider and read a couple more reviews. The tripple channel memory controller is a joke! Not to mention that you end up with 90W higher idle when a bloomfield is overclocked compared to a Lynnfield!

[power666]

If scaling works as promised with the Lucid chip, it'd be a better fit on the socket LGA 1156 platform due to the limited number of native PCI-E lanes.

I'm still not sure how multiple Lucid chips on a motherboard would function. That's one of the reasons why we haven't seen a socket LGA 1366 version yet. The X58 chipset allows for 36 PCI-E lanes. The Lucid Hydra chip uses 16 which would leave 20 lanes left over from the X58 chipset. A motherboard manufacturer could provide two PCI-E 16x slots from the Lucid chip and then another PCI-E 16x from the rest of the chipset lanes. However, that configuration just gets messy from a support standpoint. Another alternative would be to incorporate two Lucid chips for four PCI-E 16x slots that is equally messy in terms of getting everything to work. Using those 20 remaining lanes for say 8x and 4x slots are possible and side steps support issues.

[kuang3]

what a let down, Crysis is not in the list.

so if Lucid doesn't support a game, can SLI/Crossfire kick in then?

what it means when they say: " These games are verified with HYDRA driver 1.3.105 by Lucid. The games that are highlights (Bold) are common to all confgurations." ?

I saw games in bold so?

[NerosDevil]

How I wish the scaling works natively. Sigh.

[psolord]

Originally Posted by kuang3

what a let down, Crysis is not in the list.

so if Lucid doesn't support a game, can SLI/Crossfire kick in then?

what it means when they say: " These games are verified with HYDRA driver 1.3.105 by Lucid. The games that are highlights (Bold) are common to all confgurations." ?

I saw games in bold so?

If I have understood correctly, from previous articles, enablind and disabling the hydra is as easy as right clicking on the taskbar icon and selecting enable or disable. A system restart may be required.

I wonder what Vantage's score will be with Hydra on/off. They didn't even give us this. But all in good time I guess. No wait a minute. Better make it 3dmark 06 since vantage scales very nicely anyway!

[ragnarok95]

Originally Posted by Fatfool

Whoops. Maybe they missed like the most anticipated game of 2007?

btw, socket 1156?!?!?!?


not 1336?! isn't this supposed to be like an extremely high end solution?

No 1336 cos this socket never exist. Stock for stock, a 1156 i7 860 is faster than a 1366 i7 920.