Computex doesn't officially kick off until next week, but Asus very kindly invited us to have a look at what it will be showing at the trade show a few days beforehand.
The new goodies include Asus' first Lucid Hydra motherboard, a killer graphics card and a micro-ATX board for enthusiasts.
Asus also took the opportunity to confirm a few of the rumours that have been floating around about the company. For a start, Asus officially unveiled its Turbo Unlocker tool, which improves on AMD's Turbo Boost automatic overclocking technology. Asus says that Turbo Unlocker can also be enabled by just flipping the Turbo Key II switch on the motherboard.
Similarly, Asus' Core Unlocker technology, which can enable any latent cores on an AMD CPU, can also be enabled with a motherboard switch. Basically, by flipping a couple of switches, an Asus motherboard can automatically detect latent cores, determine whether they're faulty and enable any cores that can be used. It then also determines how far the CPU can be overclocked, and then boots up with the appropriate overclock and hopefully more CPU cores enabled.
As well as this, Asus also spilled the beans on its Crosshair IV Formula motherboard, which is the outfit's first board to use a Lucid Hydra chip. With space for four dual-slot graphics cards, Asus says that this is the first AM3 motherboard to support Nvidia's SLI technology.
Asus' technical PR manager Iain Bristow explained to THINQ that the motherboard supported SLI via the Hydra chip, but that it can run cards in native SLI mode (with full support from Nvidia drivers), or in Lucid mode, which can be quicker in some games. The board also enables you to mix and match Nvidia and ATI GPUs in 3D mode.
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