ASUS also showcased its latest technologies, including Dual Intelligent Processors and Core Unlocker on motherboards, as well as the latest NVIDIA GeForce-based graphics cards.

With one in every three PCs worldwide featuring an ASUS motherboard, the pioneering company takes its leadership role to heart, leveraging resources and expertise to come up with ever more creative technology.

As the premier provider of motherboards and graphics cards, ASUS shows the way with exclusive features such as Core Unlocker, Turbo Unlocker and the Dual Intelligent Processors architecture. Additional recent innovations include the first widescale implementation of USB 3.0 and user-friendly autotuning for superior overclocking.

New Technology Motherboards

Based on a legacy of unrivalled leadership in motherboard design and manufacture, ASUS continues to innovate with new ideas that enable and empower consumers. The new Turbo Unlocker optimizes CPU ratios and boosts performance whenever added workload handling is needed. The new technology extends to the latest Unlocked Intel® Core processors, and offers significant performance improvements for better multitasking media-intensive tasks.

“The desktop performance tuning market is an exciting one where ASUS and Intel have been leaders for many years,”commented Zane Ball, General Manager of the Desktop Platforms Division at Intel. “Turbo Unlocker is a powerful utility that will enable performance tuners to take full advantage of Intel Extreme Edition and Unlocked enthusiast processors.”

The Dual Intelligent Processors bring even more innovation, featuring the TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) and EPU (Energy Processing Unit) in a dual-processing architecture that eases system loads while maximizing power efficiency across the board. No one other than ASUS has been able to deliver all these at a great value to consumers and with absolute reliability – these are the results of decades-long leadership.

New motherboards such as the M4A89/M4A88/M4A87 Series also deliver Core Unlocker to activate latent AMD CPU cores for added performance, the most complete and effective solution of its kind.

New Technology Graphics Cards

ASUS has focused efforts on becoming a vanguard in graphics cards, seamlessly ushering new technology, to be displayed at Computex. This includes the latest graphics engine from NVIDIA, helping enthusiasts make use of ASUS leadership in a timely manner.

The new ENGTX400 series graphics cards from ASUS are based on NVIDIA’s GeForce 400 series technology, formerly known as Fermi, and add to the design with exclusives such as Voltage Tweak, which can speed up the GPU by up to 50%.

The ample power of these DX11 cards takes gaming and graphics to a whole new level, made even better looking through intelligent image improvement technologies such as ASUS Splendid HD. They further add full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, extending the three dimensional gaming and movie experience to the home, even on multiple screens.

As the forefront provider of graphics cards worldwide, ASUS is perfectly positioned to offer solutions tailored to the needs of the community, while at the same time giving it the resources to invest in future technologies.

Support for Microsoft DirectX 11 gaming and computing engine with embedded with ATI’s Eyefinity multi-display Technology, the AMD ATI Radeon 5870 Eyefinity 6 graphic card is likely to have the same specifications of the original HD 5870 graphic card with only differing features will be its 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM and 6 mini video display port connectors in contrast to the DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors in regular HD 5870 card.

Bringing next-Generation HD Gaming and Multimedia to the mainstream, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics card offers ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology coupled with ATI own Stream technology allowing upto 3 monitors concurrently on a single graphic card.

The ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card offers great performance, allowing users to get the true Windows 7 experience with full DirectX11 native support, with a 2-GB dedicated DDR5 memory configuration.

Besides it includes Dolby True HD sound and DTS-HD Master Audio with 512MB of RAM enriching the home theater experience.

Build with 292 million 40nm transistors cluster the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition card is also passively-cooled therefore does not make fan noise and it and it consumes less than 20 watts power under full load, eliminating the need for an external power connection.

Powered by 1280 stream processor giving GPU engine clock speed of 750 MHz, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 graphic card is PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface compatible and employs ATI Stream Technology to boost performance of video playback enabling superior HD gaming experience and comes with certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP platform and comes equipped with a 750 MHz Engine clock speed offering 104 GigaFLOPS Processing power.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card would be officially launched in first half of March 2010 and there is no info on the prices of this card at this point of time.

Bringing next-Generation HD Gaming and Multimedia to the mainstream, the ATI Radeon HD 5450 Graphics card offers ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology coupled with ATI own Stream technology allowing upto 3 monitors concurrently on a single graphic card.

The ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card offers great performance, allowing users to get the true Windows^® 7 experience with full DirectX11 native support, for less than USD $60 with a  512 MB dedicated DDR3 memory configuration. Besides it comes equipped with a HDMI 1.3a digital out port connection along with Dolby True HD sound and DTS-HD Master Audio with 512MB of RAM enriching the home theater experience.

Build with 292 million 40nm transistors cluster the ATI Radeon HD 5450 card has DDR3 memory at 800 MHz and DDR2 at 400 MHz clock speed that offers 0.8 Gbps DDR2 and up to 1.6 Gbps DDR3 memory data speed and

The card is also passively-cooled therefore does not make fan noise and it and it consumes less than 20 watts power under full load, eliminating the need for an external power connection.

ATI Radeon HD 5450 is PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface compatible and employs ATI Stream Technology to boost performance of video playback enabling superior HD gaming experience. Besides, the graphic card also offers extra VGA monitor connectivity on HDMI v1.3 port using an appropriate converter.

The ATI Radeon HD 5450 card comes with certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP platform and comes equipped with a 650 MHz Engine clock speed offering 104 GigaFLOPS Processing power.

Sporting certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP platform, the AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card is powered by 80 stream processor giving GPU engine clock speed of 650 MHz. Besides it also offers upto 800 MHz data rate with GDDR3 memory and 400 MHz DDR2 memory chips and uses 64-bit memory bus interface.

The ATI Radeon HD 5450 Graphics card is available from a number of partners, including ASUS, ASK, Club 3D, DMM, GBT, HIS, LDLC.com, MSI, TUL, Sapphire, VT and XFX.

Visit ATI Radeon graphics product information for more details.

MSI’s new Hawk series R5770 graphics card provide mainstream gamers with great performance at a great price. The new Hawk series not only continues the Lightning’s tradition of exceptional performance and military-grade components but also come with an astounding C/P value allowing consumers on a limited budget enjoy the kind of performance and quality that was previously only found in top-of-the-line products.

MSI R5770 is the first Hawk graphic card with 7+1-phase power supply and support for GPU voltage overclocking which is backed by Twin Frozr II thermal design and military class components. Such a perfect balance in performance, stability and low-temperature totally redefines the benchmark for mainstream graphic card products.

The new MSI R5770 Hawk Graphics Card features exclusive 7+1 Phase power architecture that keeps the graphics card power when overclocked. In comparison to the 4+1-phase power supply on the reference card, the MSI R5770 Hawk graphics card with its 7+1-phase design provides more power to the GPU and memory to achieve overclocking up to 20 percent at max.

The MSI R5570 Hawk graphics card is claimed to uses military class materials that  includes the Hi-c CAP for the GPU power supply, solid state capacitors to extend the graphics card’s overall service life, and solid state inductors that prevent high-frequency noise when overclocked or under high loads.

The DirectX-capable MSI R5770 graphics card also features 800 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 ultra-fast RAM with a memory bandwidth of 128 bits and a clock frequency of 4800MHz. Besides, the embedded GPU runs at 850MHz. In addition, the card also supports all the latest technologies that includes ATI Eyefinity and CrossFireX, and has DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors

Sporting a price tag of US $200, the MSI R5770 Graphics Card is expected to be available sometime during the coming weeks.