MSI to release lower-cost P55 + Hydra motherboard

For later this quarter MSI is preparing two new motherboards featuring the Hydra SoC (System-on-Chip) from Lucidlogix, the 870A-GD60 Hydra seen at CeBIT and the model pictured below which is known as P55-GD88 Hydra or P55A Hydra.

Like the Big Bang Fuzion, the P55A Hydra makes use of Intel's P55 chipset but it only has Hi-c CAPs for the CPU and includes two (as opposed to three on the Fuzion) PCI-Express x16 slots, enabling 2-way SLI, 2-way X-mode (Nvidia + AMD GPU) and CrossFireX setups.