NVIDIA 790i ULTRA SLI MCP

NVIDIA® nForce® 790i Ultra SLI®-based motherboards are the foundation for the world’s fastest gaming PCs, delivering top performance for 1600 MHz FSB Intel CPUs with extreme CPU overclocking, and unmatched DirectX® 10 gaming for 2-way, 3-way and Quad SLI technology. The only platform to support DDR3-2GHz also provides world-record setting memory speeds and component control with ESA.

The Fastest, Most Overclockable Rig
Get unbeatable performance at stock and overclocked speeds (single GPU). NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCPs offer the highest CPU FSB overclocking with the latest CPU technology as well as unrivaled DDR3 memory overclocking. And real-time component monitoring and tuning features with ESA give you complete control over your PC.

Unreal Tournament 3 image captured on NVIDIA GPU. Provided by Epic. Unmatched DirectX 10 Gaming with SLI
Combine two dual-GPU NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards and an nForce 790i Ultra SLI -based motherboard to enjoy earth-shattering Quad SLI technology and the rapid-firing gaming performance of next-generation DirectX 10 games the way they’re meant to be played.

Designed for Next-Generation CPUs and Technologies
nForce 790i Ultra SLI -based motherboards include support for 1600 FSB CPUs, DDR3 memory and PCI Express 2.0 giving you access to the fastest performance on the planet and headroom for the future.


Specifications:
NVIDIA SLI Ready
Quad SLI technology support with two dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards
3-way SLI technology support with three NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra or GTX graphics cards
SLI technology support with two identical SLI Ready graphics cards .True 3 x16 graphics

System Performance Tools
ESA certified motherboard
NVIDIA Control Panel
NVIDIA System Monitor

Expansion Slots
PCI Express 2.0 support
62 lanes, 12 links: 3 x16* or 4 x8, 1 x16, 1 x8, 6 x1 *2 x16 are PCI Express Gen 2.0, 1 x16 is PCI Express Gen 1.0
Up to 5 PCI Slots

CPU
Intel Socket LGA775
Full support for Intel Penryn (Yorkfield & Wolfdale), Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Intel Pentium Family

Front Side Bus
1600

Memory
Dual channel memory architecture
DDR3 2000 (EPP2.0)
Storage
NVIDIA MediaSheild™ Technology
Up to 6 Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s drives
Up to 2 PATA drives (Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33)
RAID configurations 0, 1, 0+1, 5
Networking
Dual native Gigabit Ethernet connections
NVIDIA FirstPacket™ technology
NVIDIA DualNet® technology
USB
Up to 10 USB 2.0 ports

Audio
HDA (Azalia)

NVIDIA TEGRA

Nvidia has announced the launch of Tegra family of processors which are smaller than a US Dime and has been designed from the ground up to enable rich visual PC experience to a new generation of mobile devices.

The Tegra 650 processor is the second product in the Tegra line, the first one being the Nvidia Tegra APX 2500 processor, enabling the next generation of Windows Mobile smart-phones. The Nvidia Tegra products is expected to reach the consumers in the end of the year. Tegra is a heterogeneous processor architecture with multiple processors. There is an 800 Mhz ARM CPU, a HD video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a low power Geforce GPU. With this architectures, the processors can achieve up-to 10 times the power efficiency of existing products in battery operated computer systems.

This definitely seem like a great innovation in mobile computing market. What do you guys think about this?

INTEL ATOM SERIES

Intel has today unveiled the Intel Atom family of processors that are made for an emerging class of devices called Netbooks and Nettops that will help bring the Internet to a million of new users around the world.

The Intel Atom processor is packed with 47 million transistors, each of which is based on an entirely new Micro-architecture which has been designed specifically for smaller devices with low power and measures less than 25mm. Netbooks and Nettops are compact mobile devices that first time Internet users, children and people who want an extra PC can use for some basic application like surfing, listening to music, email, playing online games etc.

Manufacturers such as HCL, Zenith and Wipro will be shortly launching Netbooks and Nettops which will be based on the Atom processor. This can sure promote the usage of computers and Interner in rural areas.