ASUS flexes its gaming muscles at CeBIT

This year’s CeBIT has yielded some exciting news for teccie gamers and ASUS fans as the company has been showing off its latest motherboards, graphics cards, and a notebook containing a Core i7 processor.

Firstly the motherboards, the Rampage III Extreme and the Crosshair IV Extreme are both meaty motherboards. To be precise these are the beach strolling, muscle flexing, bad boys of motherboards and boast support for four GPUs (yes that’s right four) with a thermal design which will stop the motherboard from getting too toasty. The Crosshair IV Formula and Game First engine are designed to sort out connection problems and pulverise any lag in their way, walking off with sweet smooth gaming even when multitasking.

The graphics cards at this year’s show, the limited edition ARES and ROG MATRIX 8750, are something to drool over. The ARES features dual Radeon HD 5870 GPUs with 4GB of GDDR5 RAM, offering 23% better performance than the top-of-the-line Radeon HD5970. It has a large fan which increases airflow by 600% and promises to be quiet (though if it increases airflow by 6X who’s complaining about the noise). The ROG MATRIX 5870 has a super hybrid engine offering 19% better performance during gameplay, and is very quiet when idling. Both are highly overclockable.

Finally the G51JX 3D notebook, not only is it hiding a Core i7 processor under its hood but it has integrated Nvidia 3D vision, offering the most immersive experience you’re likely to get on a 15.6” screen. Priced at around $1300 it is quite steep, though at some places it comes with a free copy of Avatar: The Game to sweeten the deal.

The G51JX is available now in the US, the price may be princely but you can bet it’s worth it.