MSI is extending its work Lucidlogix and is now preparing a more affordable model to complete the first Hydra motherboard MSI Big Bang Fuzion. MSI P55A Hydra uses Intel’s P55 chipset and targets the LGA1156 platform. Intel’s mid-range platform is a lot easier on the wallet than the LGA1366 equivalent and in this way MSI and Lucid hopes to reach out to a broader audience.
MSI P55A Hydra is also known as P55-GD88 Hydra and the specifications include polymer capacitors, dual PCI-Express x16 slots, four DDR3 memory slots, two SATA 6,0 Gbps ports, two USB 3.0 ports, dual Gigabit Ethernet and on-board power, reset and Clear CMOS buttons.
With dual graphics card slots you will have to settle for two-way SLI, CrossFireX or X-mode (AMD + NVIDIA). With MSI Big Bang Fuzion there is the possibility of using three graphics card, but this isn’t really a loss to most people.
Launch date remains clouded, but it is expected to cost near or around $300.
