This motherboard presents a AM2+ socket compatible with the latest Phenom and probably future AMD Phenom II, supports DDR2 memory up to 800 MHz and has six Serial ATA connectors compatible RAID 0, 1 and 5, one PCI Express x16, two PCI Express 1x ports and three PCI slots. PS2 connectors for keyboard and mouse, twelve USB ports, an Ethernet connector, input/output analog and digital audio are available. Three video outputs are also arranged on the rear panel: one HDMI, one DVI and one VGA.

Soberly named EVGA nForce 730A, this motherboard is already available, directly from the manufacturer’s shop among other things, for the retail price of $95.

NVIDIA has launched its new graphics card Quadro FX 5800 and announced that it’s “the graphics card for professional the most powerful in the history of graphics cards”. Price: $3500.

The specifications include:

• 240 CUDA Parallel Processor Cores
• 4 GB of Graphics Memory
• 102 GB/s of Memory Bandwidth
• Maximum Power Consumption of 189W
• OpenGL 2.1
• Shader Model 4.0
• Microsoft DirectX 10
• SLI Frame Rendering Support
• Genlock/Framelock