The board is clearly far from the final version and it even carries a Rev: 0.0 tag, but it’ll give us a good glimpse into what Sapphire is working on. The board is currently known as the PC-CI7S42P67 but we’re certain that Sapphire will come up with a much catchier name for the board by the time it launches. One of the most prominent features of the board is the Lucid Hydra chip located between the topmost PCI Express x16 slots and the board offers three x16 slots connected to it, all of which appear to use x8 bandwidth when more than one card is in use. There’s also a fourth grey x16 slot, but this only has four lanes worth of bandwidth according to the boardmarkings.
Sapphire reveals P67 motherboard with Lucid Hydra
Posted on Friday, January 07 2011 @ 18:12 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
SemiAccurate reports Sapphire is showing off a P67 motherboard with the Lucid Hydra chip at CES 2011, you can check it out over here.