Asus launched its new M4A89GTD PRO series motherboards yesterday at Taipei, claiming several performance-related improvements with various new features, with Core Unlocker being the most notable of them.

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Following information on the quite insane HD 5970 Ares, Sapphire has joined the party with an extreme version of the HD 5970. Whilst the standard HD 5970 carries two Cypress GPUs clocked at 725 MHz for the core, and 1000 MHz for 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the Asus and Sapphire versions take it up all the way to HD 5870 clock speeds, or 850 MHz / 1.2 GHz.

Fudzilla have managed to capture both products - which were showed at Cebit 2010.


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Garmin-ASUS has unveiled their new nuvifone A50 which boasts to be the first Android-based smartphone with more location-based technology than others. It sports a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, 4GB internal memory (and has a microSD card slot), as well as an integrated 3-megapixel camera with auto focus.

The annual Mobile World Congress kicked off in Barcelona, Spain on 15th February with a huge turn out of mobile professionals who came from all over the world. The four-day event will see announcements from various companies including Google, Microsoft and Samsung.

ASUS has announced their new external slim DVD and Blu-ray drives for mobile users who are carrying a thin and light notebook PC. On top of that, the manufacturer also launched their latest ROG G73Jh gaming laptop that is powered by Intel Core i7 processor, ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics, and up to 8GB of DDR3 memory.

The new ASUS laptops are going to be equipped with NVIDIA Optimus Technology that allows seamless transition between discrete and integrated graphics for enhanced viewing and longer battery life. The notebooks are scheduled to be available from March.

It seems that that the Asus Eee Box 1501 will getting a blu-ray drive after all. For those who are unaware, the Eee Box is a nettop series by Asus.

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The ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard has become the first motherboard to be officially certified by the USB Implementation Forum (USB-IF) to support USB 3.0 features. The P6X58D Premium is built on the Intel® X58 chipset and the Intel® LGA 1366 socket. It also supports the upcoming 32nm 6-Core CPU.